Multiple abap2UI5 versions with FLP connector

[christianguenter2]

Regarding automagically renaming abap2UI5 and install multiple versions in one system as described here
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/renaming-abap-artifacts-power-abaplint-github-actions-development-kqede/?trackingId=ZfuwHYWrGeZKkDGsXXwLCA%3D%3D

Is it possible to use FLP connector with multiple abap2UI5 versions? Last time I checked it was not and tried some dynamic programming but didn't come far. Another option would to automagically rename FLP connector and run multiple instances of that too. But AFAIK BSP isn't supported.

[oblomov-dev]

mhh good point! it is not! i think also renaming is the correct way for this but abaplint renaming just supports classes and interfaces afaik.

created a little script here to copy & rename ui5 files to bsp:
https://github.com/abap2UI5/abap2UI5/blob/main/ci/app2bsp/run.js

but its very very basic, no dynamic creation of mapping etc. but it might be possible to also change the namespace, will give it a try and come back.

[oblomov-dev]

i was able to install the bsp renamed to z2ui6., feel free to give a try to:
https://github.com/abap2UI5-connectors/fiori-launchpad-connector-onpremise/tree/renamed

some notes:

• i am not sure how long the names are allowed to be, from a certain length abapgit breaks when pulling the icf nodes of the bsp
• replace the values in the yaml to the namespace etc. you need
• no idea how stable this is, created the whole script with copilot without writing a single line by myself, so everyting experimental and room for further improvements :)
• directly calling the bsp runs without problems but i am not sure how it behaves on launchpads, maybe there is the need to also rename the app.id: https://github.com/abap2UI5-connectors/fiori-launchpad-connector-onpremise/blob/renamed/src/02/z2ui6.wapa.manifest.json#L4

[oblomov-dev]

for a consistent approach we need to be able to rename all abap2Ui5 repositories, therefore created:
https://github.com/abap2UI5-renamed
i can install frontend and frontend-renamed separately but when installing both in parallel some icf issues come up. seems there is some magic left with the generated numbers for the icf nodes. will take a look to it again.

[oblomov-dev]

Updated the frontend renaming repository again: https://github.com/abap2UI5-renamed/frontend

Added a script which generates new hash values for the icf nodes and now it runs stable on my side. I can install it multiple times and also with different lenght of the names, here z2ui5, z2ui7, zabap2ui9

Feel free to give it a try.

the only thing which is not so nice, that the bsp has always some diffs with invisible charactes, but i will not put effort into solving this:

[christianguenter2]

Thx a lot for your effort. Seems it doesn't work yet with namespaces. I'll try to submit some improvements.