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BatchUpdate operation
The BatchUpdate operation accepts a List Business Object as an input and processes the top-level business objects in a batch, allowing you to update multiple top-level business objects efficiently.
To process the BatchUpdate operation, the adapter performs the following actions:
- Considers only the top-level input business objects and ignores all the child business objects.
Unlike the Update operation, the BatchUpdate operation does not perform a Retrieve operation before performing the Execute operation.
- Updates records of the corresponding top-level input business objects in the database. The maximum number of business objects in one batch interaction depends on the batchSize property.
- Returns the BatchResult Business Object as a result of this operation.
- Generates an exception if an error occurs when processing the business objects. For information about exceptions, see Exception Handling.
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