Standard Methods

Other generated methods are CreateAsync, SaveAsync, and Initialize.

You can explicitly activate or deactivate the automatic generation of load and create methods for an object by using the generateLoadMethod and generateCreateMethod attributes in a business object declaration. If you set these attributes to false, then you must implement the load or create functionality yourself in the automatically created beforeLoadAsync or beforeCreateAsync method. This is always the case for save, which is why there’s no generateSaveMethod attribute.

No Standard Save Method

There’s no generated save method because you must make save-related decisions on a case-by-case basis. For example, do you save all nested objects of an object as well? This explains why there’s a generateLoadMethod attribute in a BusinessObject method but no generateSaveMethod attribute.

Instead, the framework generates before and after save method stubs for a new business object in the SaveAsync folder under the MvX directory. Always write the save logic yourself, typically in beforeSaveAsync.

Note The examples of saveAsync in existing core objects, if any, were written by the core app designers and not generated by the framework.