Presentated at UI5con Bangalore.

1. Rahul Inamadar, Evora IT Solutions Bangalore
June 22, 2018
Use of Annotation And
XML Template In UI5

2. XML Template

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What is XML Template
XML View as a
Template
XML Dom
(View/fragment)
XML
Preprocessor
The XML templating concept enables you to use an XML view/fragment as a
template.

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• Used for customizing or personalizing the Product
• To Create view or part of UI Dynamically
• Flexibility to create user specific UI
• Easy to control UI fields from backend(Annotations)
• Some time extending Smart Template is not enough
Making the UI or Parts of UI Smart.
Why XML Template

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Use case

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Cont..

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 Annotations - As prerequisite
 Meta Model - <oDataModel>.getMetaModel()
 Meta Context - <MetaModel>.getMetaContext(<sPath>)
 Pre-processing Instruction
 Annotation Helper
What is required

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Machine-readable additional metadata
 Semantic annotations “sap:semantics”(e.g.
‘tel’,’address’, unit-of-measure, currency-code
etc.)
 Capability annotations(inserts, updates, or
deletes)
 Vocabularies
Vocabularies provide the ability to
annotate metadata as well as instance
data, and define a powerful
extensibility point for OData.
Annotations

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How to use XML Templating

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Template

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Cont..
Annotation
Template
Resulting View/Fragment

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• There are no conditional statements in repeat clause
• The Annotations structure has to be fixed considering the
some scenarios
Limitations

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References
References
 https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/topic/5ee619fc1370463ea674ee
04b65ed83b
 https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/#/sample/sap.ui.core.sample.View
Template.scenario/preview
Examples
 https://github.com/rahulinamdar/XML_Template
 https://github.com/rahulinamdar/XML_Template_Basic

14. Thank you.
Contact information:
Rahul Inamadar
UI5 Developer
Rahul.Inamadar@evorait.com