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Absolute Type Names
The type name of a user-defined (i.e. not built-in) type that can be used statically in ABAP statements is only valid in relation to its context and is therefore also known as the relative type name. As described in Validity and Visibility , local data types hide identically named global data types. The same applies to classes and interfaces that are also to be interpreted as type definitions in this context.
Absolute type names, however, uniquely identify a type. An absolute type name as a path specifications is made up of the following components:

TYPE=name

CLASS=name

INTERFACE=name

PROGRAM=name

CLASS-POOL=name

FUNCTION-POOL=name
BEGIN_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT

TYPE-POOL=name
END_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT

METHOD=name
BEGIN_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT

FORM=name
END_SECTION VERSION 5 OUT

FUNCTION=name
The last component of a path must always be TYPE=name, CLASS=name, or INTERFACE=name. It describes a data type, a class, or an interface whose name name must be entered in uppercase letters. Absolute type names that only consist of TYPE=name, CLASS=name, or INTERFACE=name describe a data type from the ABAP Dictionary or a global class or interface of the class library. Absolute type names for local data types, classes, and interfaces are created using sequential component names that specify their context as prefixes.
Absolute type names can be used in all statements in which dynamic specification of a data type, a class, or an interface is possible. This means that a local type can be prevented from hiding a global type by specifying an absolute type name, and the absolute type names can be used to dynamically access the types, classes, and interfaces of other programs. When a different program is accessed, it is loaded into the current ABAP_ISESS if required. Only the names of compilation units can be used for programs after PROGRAM. It is not possible to use the names of include programs, since they cannot be generated and loaded independently.
A data type is uniquely identified by its absolute type name. However, there are different ways of forming a unique path for a type. For example, the specification of a function pool for a type can be omitted in a function module because each function module is unique. For types in a class pool or function pool, the technical name name of the ABAP program can also be specified. Since the latter is usually not known, it is recommended that CLASS-POOL or FUNCTION-POOL are used instead.
Even a data type that only exists as a property of a data object and, therefore, does not have a relative type name, has an internal absolute type name (technical type name) that uniquely determines the data type.



Latest notes:

The type description classes of the Run Time Type Services (RTTS), such as CL_ABAP_TYPEDESCR, contain methods that return the absolute type name of data types or data objects.
NON_V5_HINTS

If an absolute type name is used in a program to specify a type of a different program, this program is added to a new additional program group or to the current program group depending on the program type, if it has not yet been loaded. The program constructor LOAD-OF-PROGRAM is not yet executed.
ABAP_HINT_END

ABAP_EXAMPLE_VX5
When the methods m1 and m2 of the class c1 are called in the following example, the RTTS return the absolute type names TYPE=SPFLI or PROGRAM=RTTI_TEST CLASS=C1 METHOD=M2 TYPE=SPFLI for the generically typed parameter p. The use spfli has a different meaning in the methods m1 and m2. This is also indicated by a syntax check warning. CLASS c1 DEFINITION.
PUBLIC SECTION.
METHODS: m1,
m2,
m3 IMPORTING p TYPE any.
ENDCLASS.

CLASS c1 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD m1.
DATA struc TYPE spfli.
m3( struc ).
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD m2.
TYPES spfli TYPE spfli.
DATA struc TYPE spfli.
m3( struc ).
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD m3.
DATA type_descr TYPE REF TO cl_abap_typedescr.
type_descr = cl_abap_typedescr=>describe_by_data( p ).
cl_demo_output=>write( type_descr->absolute_name ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.

CLASS exa DEFINITION.
PUBLIC SECTION.
CLASS-METHODS main.
ENDCLASS.

CLASS exa IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD main.
DATA(ref) = NEW c1( ).
ref->m1( ).
ref->m2( ).
cl_demo_output=>display( ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
ABAP_EXAMPLE_END