SAP CDS ANNOTATIONS SCOPES



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ABAP_CDS - Scopes for Annotations
Annotations can be specified in ABAP CDS source code for the following scopes by using annotation syntax . The scopes in which an annotation can be specified are determined with the @Scope annotation in the corresponding annotation definition.
CDS DDL:
Annotation definition annotations for a CDS annotation definition
in front of the statement DEFINE ANNOTATION
Entity annotations for a CDS entity
in front of the statements DEFINE VIEW ENTITY, DEFINE VIEW ENTITY AS PROJECTION, DEFINE TABLE FUNCTION, DEFINE HIERARCHY, DEFINE CUSTOM ENTITY, DEFINE ABSTRACT ENTITY , DEFINE VIEW .
View annotations for a CDS view. View annotations are subdivided into:
View entity annotations in front of the statement DEFINE VIEW ENTITY
Projection view annotations in front of the statement DEFINE VIEW ENTITY AS PROJECTION
DDIC-based view annotations in front of the statement DEFINE VIEW
Which view annotation can be used where is not governed by the @Scope annotation, but is documented for each DEFINE statement.
Extension annotations for a CDS view extension
in front of the statement EXTEND VIEW or EXTEND VIEW ENTITY
Function annotations for a CDS table function
in front of the statement DEFINE TABLE FUNCTION
Hierarchy annotations for a CDS hierarchy
in front of the statement DEFINE HIERARCHY
Parameter annotations for a parameter of a CDS view
in front of and after the parameter
Parameter annotations for a parameter of a CDS table function
in front of and after the parameter
Parameter annotations for a parameter of an CDS custom entity
in front of the parameter
Parameter annotations for a parameter of an CDS abstract entity
in front of the parameter
Element annotations for an element of the SELECT list of a CDS view
in front of and after the element
Element annotations for an element in the element list of a CDS table function
in front of and after the element
Metadata extension annotations for a CDS metadata extension
in front of the statement ANNOTATE
CDS SDL:
Service definition annotations for a CDS service definition
In the statement DEFINE SERVICE
CDS DCL:
Role annotations for a CDS role
in front of the statement DEFINE ROLE
Access policy annotation for a CDS access policy
PFCG mapping annotation for a PFCG mapping
in front of the statement DEFINE PFCG_MAPPING
The ABAP annotations that are possible for a scope are documented under ABAP annotations. For framework-specific annotations by SAP, see the tables in the document Framework-specific annotations .



Latest notes:
The annotations specified in the source code of a CDS entity can be annotated or overridden using the annotations of CDS metadata extensions.
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