We’re excited to unveil a new productivity improvement: the Entity Actions Wrappers Accelerator (also commonly known as CRUD wrappers)! This new capability speeds up the process of encapsulating entity actions into Server Actions, with added logic to streamline your workflow. Available now in Service Studio and ODC Studio, this feature empowers developers to enforce consistent database operations across applications with minimal effort.

Why Did We Build This?

Adhering to OutSystems’ best practices, entities should typically be exposed as read-only, with server actions (so-called CRUD wrappers) handling write access for other applications or modules.

Let’s face it: creating these wrappers manually is a pain. Even for basic use cases—validations, audit trails, etc.—writing one wrapper per entity action can easily take a few minutes. Multiply that by a few entities, and you’re losing hours on repetitive work.

This challenge isn’t new; developers in our community have been advocating for a solution for a long time. It quickly became one of the most upvoted ideas. Now, we’ve turned it into reality.

How Does It Work?

Here’s how the CRUD Wrappers Accelerator saves you time and effort:

1. Right-click, Generate, Done
   • Right-click on one or multiple entities and select the new accelerator option.
     
   • In seconds, Studio creates a folder under the Logic tab and generates four server actions for each of the entity’s built-in operations: Create, CreateOrUpdate, Update, and Delete.

     

   • Alternatively, you can cherry-pick the entity actions you want Studio to generate wrappers for.
     
     
     

2. Pre-Built Logic. The generated actions include:

   • Mandatory attribute validations (with exception for boolean and numeric data types).

   • Raising EntityException (a user exception) for mandatory fields being empty.

   • Built-in entity actions and Id assignment.

   • If the entity’s identifier attribute Is Auto-Number is set to No, the actions include also the Id validation.

     
     

3. Developer Intent Preserved

   • For non-public entities, the generated server actions remain non-public.

   • For public entities, the actions are automatically set to public.

     • In ODC, for public server actions, Studio also generates corresponding service actions.

       
       

4. Scaffolding Included

   • By default, only the CreateOrUpdate wrapper is generated, just like before

   • Need more? Simply right-click on the specific entity action under the entity to generate additional wrappers.

📝 This feature is designed to save you time by automating repetitive scaffolding tasks, providing a reliable starting point for entity action wrappers. We encourage you to leverage your expertise to review and customize the flows to address your app's specific requirements.

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We’re handing this new accelerator over to you—and we’re eager to see how it helps! But we’re not stopping here. We have ideas for further improvements, and your feedback is crucial to shaping the next iterations. We’d love to hear about:

• Are the generated action flows useful for your apps?
• What enhancements would make this feature better?

Let us know what you think by replying to this forum thread or clicking the 📢 Feedback button in Service Studio or ODC Studio.

Your insights will help us evolve this accelerator to better fit your development needs.