CreateCrudAction

CreateCrudAction

Purpose Creates related (child or dependent) records inside another Data Object as part of the current API execution. Used for cascading inserts such as creating audit logs, attachments, or dependent tasks when a parent record is created or updated.

When to use it

• Immediately after the parent create (afterMainCreateOperation)
• After update (afterMainUpdateOperation) when new related entities must be inserted

Key fields

Inter-Service Support

CreateCrudAction supports both local and remote data objects:

• Local objects: The action calls the service's dbLayer utility function directly (create{ObjectName})
• Remote objects: The action automatically routes to the target service's M2M edge function (m2mCreate{ObjectName}) using secure machine-to-machine authentication. This enables seamless inter-service CRUD operations without manual API calls.

For multi-tenant services, the tenant codename is automatically propagated to the remote service via the mbx-{tenantName}-codename header.

Example

{
  "id": "a110-create-log",
  "name": "createAuditLog",
  "childObject": "auditLog",
  "dataClause": [
    { "dataProperty": "objectId", "dataValue": "this.project.id" },
    { "dataProperty": "message", "dataValue": "`Project created by ${this.session.userId}`" },
    { "dataProperty": "isActive", "dataValue": "true" }
  ],
  "contextPropertyName": "logEntry"
}