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Data Processing Engine Actions

Run an active Data Processing Engine definition. This action executes a Data Processing Engine definition asynchronously.

A Data Processing Engine definition transforms data from your Salesforce org and writes back the results to your org. For more information about running Data Processing Engine definitions, see Run a Data Processing Engine Definition in Salesforce Help.

This object is available in API version 51.0 and later.

Special Access Rules

To know the products and user permissions needed to access this action, See product availability and user permissions for Data Processing Engine.

Supported REST HTTP Methods

URI: /services/data/vXX.X/actions/custom/dataProcessingEngineAction
Formats: JSON
HTTP Methods: GET, POST
Authentication: Authorization: Bearer token

Inputs

Use the GET method to retrieve input variables of a Data Processing Engine definition. The input variables of each Data Processing Engine definition are unique. The Data Processing Engine action uses the input variables to execute the Data Processing Engine definition and generate a batch job ID.

You can't use this action to start two simultaneous runs of a definition with the same input variables.

Note

Outputs

Output	Details
batchJobId	Type string Description ID of the batch job generated after the request is successful. This ID is used to track the progress of the batch job in Monitor Workflow Services.

Usage

JSON Sample Request to execute PointsAccrual DPE Definition

1{
2   "PointsAccrual" : {
3      "memberTier" : "Gold",
4      "minimumPointBalanceRequired" : "50000",
5      "pointType" : "non-qualifying"
6   }
7}

JSON Sample Response

1{
2   "actionName":"PointsAccrual",
3      "errors":null,
4      "isSuccess":true,
5      "outputValues":{ 
6        "batchJobId":"0lMxx0000A000001EAA"
7      }
8}

Example

GET

This example shows how to retrieve input variables of a Data Processing Engine action type.

1curl --include --request GET \
2--header "Authorization: Authorization: Bearer 00DR...xyz" \
3--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
4"https://instance.salesforce.com/services/data/v60.0/actions/custom/dataProcessingEngineAction/newinputvardefn"

POST

Here’s a request to retrieve DPE definition

1{
2  "inputs": [
3    {
4      "start_date": "26-09-2023",
5      "end_date": "12-12-2023",
6      "randomkey": "069SM0000001SgbYAE"
7    }
8  ]
9}

Here’s a response for this action.

1[
2  {
3    "actionName": "newinputvardefn",
4    "errors": null,
5    "invocationID": null,
6    "isSuccess": true,
7    "outputValues": {
8      "batchJobId": "0mdSM0000006EJdYAM",
9      "accepted": true
10    },
11    "version": 1
12  }
13]

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