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Update many (generated API)

Applies the same change to every row matching find, in one statement of the database, and answers how many rows changed.
Method PUT
URL /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/update-many
Body { find, updateData }
Query params none
Answer data : { updatedRowsCount }
Databases MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, TiDB, Percona
Cached no (a write ; it resets the cache of the table)
From code g.sys.db.gen.updateManyGen
API id GEN_UPDATE_MANY (groups, settings, hooks, WebSocket subscriptions)
The other family Update many as a schema API

Schemaless : the data passes as it is

The generated APIs never read the schema of the table. Nothing is converted, validated, defaulted, encrypted or numbered : what you send is what the database gets, and a filter matches the type you send ("22" does not match the number 22). On MongoDB, strings which look like ObjectIds are converted. Every table has these APIs, with or without a schema ; the same operations under /api/schema apply the schema.

The URL

/api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/update-many : replace admin with the user path of your account, mysql8 with your instance, inventory with the database and customers with the table. The examples use this table :

customer_id first_name last_name last_update pincode isActive
1 Bob lin 2022-11-14 04: 34: 58 382345 1
2 Alice Page 2022-10-15 02: 10: 40 382346 1
3 Mallory Brown 2022-09-13 03: 44: 05 382347 1
4 Eve Mathly 2022-11-12 01: 59: 33 382348 1
5 Eve Page 2022-11-12 01: 59: 33 382349 1

The call

PUT /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/update-many
Body
{
    "find": { "customer_id": { "$in": [ 2, 3 ] } },
    "updateData": { "last_name": "Brown" }
}
Answer
{ "success": true, "statusCode": 200, "data": { "updatedRowsCount": 2 } }
  • find takes every operator of find : $in, $gt, $and, $or, $like, dotted keys… {} updates every row.
  • updatedRowsCount counts the rows the database actually changed.

More filters

$and
{ "find": { "$and": [ { "isActive": 1 }, { "pincode": { "$gt": 382345 } } ] }, "updateData": { "isActive": 0 } }
$or
{ "find": { "$or": [ { "first_name": "Bob" }, { "first_name": "Alice" } ] }, "updateData": { "pincode": 380001 } }
a related table (find and join)
{ "find": { "orders.status": "CANCELLED" }, "updateData": { "isActive": 0 } }

Good to know

  • Nothing is read back : the answer has no rows. Read them with query if you need them.
  • The cache of the table is reset and WebSocket subscribers are notified once for the call.

From your code

g.sys.db.gen.updateManyGen makes the same call from custom APIs, hooks, events, schedulers and test cases, with the same headers and params. Pass true as the second argument to get the whole response envelope instead of data.

Headers

Every call takes the request headers : the tokens, x-am-response-case, x-am-content-type-response (JSON, XML, YAML…), x-am-response-object-type: make_flat, x-am-cache-control, x-am-get-encrypted-data, x-am-internationalization, x-am-tenant-username, x-am-meta.

Errors

Code When
401 The token in x-am-authorization is missing or invalid.
403 No group of the API user grants this API of this table, or a field of the request.
404 The instance, database or table of the URL does not exist.
400 The query or the body is wrong : the error messages say which key and why.