Blog

The landing page has been refreshed with a new design, and the following new rules have been added to abaplint: aff_and_xml and selection_screen_texts_missing for details.

New insight: Tree Map visualization for packages, see example

Number of CDS lines added to the lines graph, and a new observation for function module changes.

Added statistics for API usage, see example

abaplint has been updated to 2.113.0, which includes 3 new rules

abaplint has been updated to 2.112.0, which will provide more precise syntax errors, and have less cascading errors

Disabled annotation issues now links to the source code

Procedural vs OO stats added, Example

Parallel changes to identical filenames across active pull requests are now reported as observations

Object type statistics added,

Clicking the headers in the void types table will now sort the table, click again to change direction, try it out

Display call graph between methods internally in a class,

Keep the code moving forward, see documentation for details

More quick fixes will now trigger suggestions in the pull requests, plus bugfixes

Average cyclomatic complexity & average method length added as new insights

Number of unit tests over time, plus a new graph comparing lines and unit tests over time has been added.

Lines over time statistics added,

abaplint.app has been updated to 2.98.0, this includes new rule select_single_full_key

abaplint.app has been updated to 2.97.0, this includes new rules strict_sql and fully_type_itabs.

Method cyclomatic complexity has been added as a new statistics page.

The void type statistics now includes release, depcrecation and successor information,

Package coupling diagrams with dependencies into subfolders will now display as blue.

UML diagrams will now include a footer with the SHA1 plus timestamp when it was generated.

Package coupling diagrams are now generated as SVGs,

New confiugration option "noArtifactsOkay" abaplint-app.jsonc, which allows skipping the error for no ABAP artifacts found

abaplint.app has been updated to 2.94.1, this includes new rule unnecessary_return and more quick fixes.

Large UML diagrams have previosly been skipped, now an error is shown, plus the max size has been doubled.

New,

• rule cds_comment_style
• rule change_if_to_case

Some skip settings have been changed, check release notes

The disabled rules statistics will now indicate if the rules are disabled or undefined in the configuration.

If the rule is undefined, the code enabling the rule can be copied to clipboard,

New,

• rule superfluous_value
• rule cds_legacy_view

Note the following new and renamed rules,

• new rule slow_parameter_passing
• new rule classic_exceptions_overlap
• new rule no_inline_in_optional_branches
• renamed rule pragma_placment -> pragma_style and extended
• renamed rule check_no_handler_pragma -> unnecessary_pragma and extended
• renamed rule local_testclass_location -> local_testclass_consistency and extended

The sci.abaplint.app endpoint is now considered deprecated, and service has been terminated.

Docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/abaplint/abaplint-backend is still maintained, but must be run on own infrastructure.

abaplint.app now runs on a different database platform, no expected impact to users.
Job numbers will start at 1, the old database managed to complete 207425 jobs.
In case of any questions or bugs please email [email protected]

Based on the repsitory relations, abaplint.app will now trigger cross repository syntax checks for all pushes to pull requests. The feature is immediately available for both public and private repositories. For additional information refer to the documentation.

The hardware running abaplint.app has been updated, customers should experience faster check runs.

Adding or removing key fields for transparent database tables are now reported as observations.

All repositories will now have their dependencies listed, example:

Minor updates to abaplint.app Documentation

abaplint.app is continiously updated to use the latest abaplint, since the last update, the following rules have been added,

• 2.84.0, new rule omit_preceding_zeros
• 2.83.0, new rules no_aliases & prefer_corresponding
• 2.82.0, new rule static_call_via_instance

By adding a configuration file abaplint-app.json in the repository root,

{
  "configurations": {
    "default": {
      "filename": "./abaplint.jsonc"
    },
    "v740sp05": {
      "filename": "./abaplintonprem.jsonc"
    }
  }
}

multiple configurations will be analyzed, and reported accordingly,

Including the following new rules:

• no_chained_assignment
• unnecessary_chaining

abaplint.app is continiously updated to run the latest abaplint.
Today abaplint 2.80.0 was released including a new rule align_parameters

This new observation helps discovering database changes during ABAP code review and impact analysis.
Field types that are changed, added or removed is reported.
This new observation is enabled by default for all repositories using abaplint.app

abaplint.app has been updated to abaplint 2.77.2, note that rule "many_parenthesis" has been renamed to "many_parentheses"

New rule cyclic_oo published

abaplint 2.75.0 has been released with a new rule unused_ddic, this rule can help finding artifacts which are not referenced statically.

A new feature "Observations" is in development, it will output a check run to each pull request, but not report any error status.

abaplint.app will now give an error "No ABAP artifacts found" if no ABAP files are found.

abaplint.app has been updated to run the latest abaplint, which have had numerous updates containing bugfixes.
The version can be found in the check run log.

abaplint.app is now available on GitHub Marketplace Setup #ABAP static analysis and continious integration in just a few clicks, with:

• Large ruleset
• Pull request integration
• Extra code insights

Many more features in the pipeline :)