create_cds_records: Easily created CDS records from a tibble/ data frame.

In jarekkupisz/cdsR: R Interface to Microsoft's Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service - CDS)

Description

This function will send chained POST requests to target entity in order to create new records with columns of a cds_df_like. For the moment this is a simple function, does not perform any data validation, putting all strain of validation checks on your CDS instance.

Usage

create_cds_records(
  cds_df_like,
  cds_instance_name,
  target_entity_set_name = NULL,
  exclude_null_cols = FALSE
)

Arguments

cds_df_like	tiible or data,frame with columns named as fields in the target entity name and rows represeinting individula records to be created.
cds_instance_name	A character scalar used in initialize_cds_token() to name a CDS instance.
target_entity_set_name	A plural name of the entity to which you want to post new records.
exclude_null_cols	A logical scalar indicating whether columns with nulls should be included in a single record PATCH request. Especially useful if you have null lookup field in your data for certain records and you want to exclude just the to prevent the whole request from failing.

Value

List of httr requests objects for each record created. Useful to investigate whether all requests went through and repeat for those who did not.

jarekkupisz/cdsR documentation built on Dec. 20, 2021, 9:05 p.m.