descriptor-for-components-inside-libraries-7701636.md

Descriptor for Components (Inside Libraries)

The descriptor for components contains a subset of the attributes in the descriptor for applications

Attributes in the sap.app namespace

Attribute	Comment
id	Mandatory
type	With value component; mandatory
i18n	Optional attribute: A URL string to the properties file that contains the text symbols for the descriptor; the URL is interpreted relative to the manifest. Alternatively, an object defined as described in Terminologies. If the manifest contains placeholders in {{...}} syntax but no i18n attribute has been provided, the default value i18n/i18n.properties is used to request a ResourceBundle.
embeddedBy	Mandatory, for example, "../"
title	Mandatory
subTitle
description
ach
dataSources
cdsViews
resources	Mandatory; must have value resources.json as file; it is generated by the library build with this name
offline
sourceTemplate

Attributes in the sap.ui namespace

Attribute	Comment
technology	With value UI5; mandatory
deviceTypes
supportedThemes

Attributes in the sap.ui5 namespace

Attribute	Comment
resources
dependencies	libs components
models
rootView
handleValidation
config
routing
extends	component minVersion
contentDensities
componentName

Attributes in the sap.mobile namespace

Attribute	Comment
definingRequests

Library Name Determination

SAPUI5 determines the library name by analyzing the component namespace (package) up to the part where the segment starts with a capitalized letter. If the library name that has been determined, does not fit your component, an additional library attribute needs to be filled in the component metadata in Component.js to specify the library your component belongs to.

Example:

sap.ui.core.UIComponent.extend("com.sap.fancylibrary.sub.CompLib.Component", {
    metadata : {
        "manifest" : "json",
        "library" : "com.sap.fancylibrary",
    ...
}