Convert ABAP Spoollist back to a Listobject

[Former Member]

Hi,

I would like to convert an ABAP Spool Job (compare RSPO_RETURN_ABAP_SPOOLJOB) back to a Listobject (Structure ABAPLIST, see function Module LIST_FROM_MEMORY).

Has anyone an idea or know an appropriate function module ?

thanks 4 your help.

Johann

[Former Member]

Hai,

Please suggest me how to convert the HTML to TEXT format

[nablan_umar]

Hi Johann,

I am not that clear on your question. Are you trying to convert back the list object from memory into a Abap list screen? If this is the case, have you check function module WRITE_LIST?

[Former Member]

Hi,

thanks for your reply.

What I finally would like to do is to convert an existing abap spool list from sap spool into html format and write it to a file. I found the function WWW_HTML_FROM_LISTOBJECT to convert to html on one hand and on the other hand there is RSPO_RETURN_ABAP_SPOOLJOB.

WWW_HTML_FROM_LISTOBJECT needs the spoollist as "listobject" type on its interface.

I would appreciate any help or other idea to convert a spoollist into html but prefer use of SAP internal functions.

Thanks, Johann.

[nablan_umar]

I don't see a function module that convert a text into listobject. How about using WWW_LIST_TO_HTML but you need to write the spool text you get from RSPO_RETURN_ABAP_SPOOLJOB on the list screen. Or the spool text is actually an internal table of text. Why not using function module WWW_ITAB_TO_HTML.

[Former Member]

Hi, thanks for your input.

In both cases the list formatting gets lost (colors, bold, etc.) rspo_return_abap_spooljob returns ascii text only and rspo_return_abap_spooljob_rw returns spooljob including formatting characters. Writing a raw format of a spoolist to the list screen would need too much effort.

Any other idea ?

[Former Member]

I think something like this should work:

parameters:  p_rqid type TSP01-RQIDENT.

DATA: MEM_TAB LIKE ABAPLIST OCCURS 10.
DATA: HTML_TAB LIKE w3html OCCURS 10.


  SUBMIT RSPOLIST EXPORTING LIST TO MEMORY AND RETURN
                    WITH RQIDENT = p_RQID
                    WITH FIRST = '1'
                    WITH LAST = '0'.

  CALL FUNCTION 'LIST_FROM_MEMORY'
         TABLES
              LISTOBJECT = MEM_TAB
         EXCEPTIONS
              NOT_FOUND  = 1
              OTHERS     = 2.

  CALL FUNCTION 'WWW_HTML_FROM_LISTOBJECT'
         TABLES
              HTML = HTML_TAB
              LISTOBJECT = mem_tab.

Basically, run RSPOLIST to get the list to memory, extract the list, and then call the function to generate HTML.