Remove the need for Entity Access to be set to true for ODATA Published Microflows - Mendix Forum

Remove the need for Entity Access to be set to true for ODATA Published Microflows

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Hello all,

 

I’ve been testing the new Published Microflow feature in 10.2 and it’s a very welcome change. It reduces my need to write custom REST APIs when I want to utilize a microservice architecture. However, the achilles heel is that it requires Entity Access to be set to true. This produces a very different implementation than if I were to do the same thing on the REST side. In many cases, I do not want the consuming side to mutate certain attributes on their own (for validation reasons or WORM models), but enforcing entity access means I need to give them write access to the attributes anyway.

Please remove the need to enforce entity access from ODATA Published Microflows.

Edit: There is a workaround (or a bug?) in that you can call sub-microflows without enforcing entity access on those flows, but that seems like a hack and not how mendix works in other scenarios.

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Hi Ryan, I am the Product Manager for OData at Mendix. Can you contact me at andrej.koelewijn@mendix.com to discuss? Thanks, Andrej

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