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Database Entities

Reactive Developer Boot Camp


What you ● What is an Entity?

Entity Attributes
will learn
●

● Entity Actions
here

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What is an Entity?

An Entity is an element that allows us

to persist and access information

that is needed in our applications

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Entity
● Each business concept should be
represented as an Entity

● Entity data is persisted in a Database Table


○ Each new record of an Entity is inserted as a
row on the corresponding table

● Entities...
○ store sets of data
○ have attributes
○ have Entity Actions
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Id Attribute

● Automatically created

● Uniquely identifies the Record on the Entity

● Primary key in DB

● Supports relational database operations

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Attributes

● Entity data is stored in its attributes

● Attributes represent business concepts’


properties
○ Map to a column on the respective database
table

● Must have a basic Data Type

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Basic Data Types

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Default Values

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Data Type Inference
When naming a new attribute (or variable), OutSystems tries to infer its type

Guess my attribute/Variable Data Type


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Entity Actions

● Automatically created

● CRUD data operations


○ Create: CreateCustomer
○ Retrieve: GetCustomer
○ Update: UpdateCustomer
○ Delete: DeleteCustomer

● Entity Actions can be used directly in the


business logic of the application

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Questions?

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Thank You!

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