ABAP Advanced Code Search Tools

If you are running an ABAP system with 7.40 or 7.50 with a 753 or 754 kernel you should be able to install the main branch without any syntax errors, but only up to a certain patch level (see Note 3279914).
Due to the necessary usage of OFFSET in an Open SQL statement you have to switch to branch nw-740 if you are at a newer patch level.

Searches Code in ABAP sources like

• Classes (CLAS)
• Interfaces (INTF)
• Programs (PROG)
• Type Groups (TYPE)
• Function Groups (FUGR)
• Data Definitions (DDLS)
• Metadata Extensions (DDLX)
• Access Controls (DCLS)
• Behavior Definitions (BDEV)
• Simple Transformations (XSLT)

The search is done entirely via ABAP (as opposed to the ADT Source Search). There is an option to run the search in parallel for better performance

Search can be done via normal String search or with Regular Expressions. If supported by the system it is also possible to activate PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)

You can execute the search via report ZADCOSET_SEARCH, where most of the options are available as well, but the main focus of the UI will be ADT (see abap-code-search-ui).

• /src
  Root package which currently also holds the search API
  Important Objects in package:

  Object Name	Purpose
  ZCL_ADCOSET_SEARCH_ENGINE	Access point to code search
  ZADCOSET_SEARCH	ABAP Report for executing the code search

• /src/adt
  Implementation of the ADT backend

• /src/parl
  Implementation of parallel processing - needed for the code search

Install this repository using abapGit.

A certain part of the implementation for the ABAP releases 7.40 and 7.50 uses ADBC (ABAP Database Connectivity).
Only the following databases are supported at the moment:

• Oracle
• HANA

To access the backend from ADT a user must have the following authorizations