Update multiple rows - ExpertSender Help Center

DataTablesUpdateMultipleRows allows updating existing rows using HTTP POST method. It is possible to update multiple rows in one data table in one request by specifying row unique identifier (PK, primary key) for each row.

Request data format

ApiRequest element children:

Parameter	Type	Notes
ApiKey	string	Your API key, required for authentication. Required.
TableName	string	Name of Data Table. Required.
Data	complex	Object containing rows data. Required.

Data element children:

Parameter	Type	Notes
Columns	complex	Collection of row elements. Required.

Row element children:

Parameter	Type	Notes
PrimaryKeyColumns	complex	Collection of Column elements. Contains unique identifier (PK, primary key) of the row that is supposed to be updated. This is an equivalent of SQL «WHERE» directive. Required.
Columns	complex	Collection of Column elements. Contains information only about columns that are supposed to be updated and their new values. This is an equivalent of SQL «SET» directive. Required.

Column element children:

Parameter	Type	Notes
Column	string	Column name. Required.
Value	string	Field value. Required.

Examples

Request:

POST https://api.esv2.com/v2/Api/DataTablesUpdateMultipleRows/ HTTP/1.1

<ApiRequest xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <ApiKey>test_api_key1</ApiKey>
  <TableName>Table1</TableName>
  <Data>
    <Row>
      <PrimaryKeyColumns>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column1</Name>
          <Value>Value1</Value>
        </Column>
      </PrimaryKeyColumns>
      <Columns>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column2</Name>
          <Value>2</Value>
        </Column>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column3</Name>
          <Value>2013-01-01 01:00:00 PM</Value>
        </Column>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column4</Name>
          <Value>4.66</Value>
        </Column>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column5</Name>
          <Value>True</Value>
        </Column>
      </Columns>
    </Row>
    <Row>
      <PrimaryKeyColumns>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column1</Name>
          <Value>Value2</Value>
        </Column>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column2</Name>
          <Value>3</Value>
        </Column>
      </PrimaryKeyColumns>
      <Columns>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column1</Name>
          <Value>Value5</Value>
        </Column>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column2</Name>
          <Value>5</Value>
        </Column>
        <Column>
          <Name>Column5</Name>
          <Value>True</Value>
        </Column>
      </Columns>
    </Row>
  </Data>
</ApiRequest>

OK response:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Cache-Control: private
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 1.0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:35:17 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Error response:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

<ApiResponse xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <ErrorMessage>
  <Code>400</Code>
  <Messages>
   <Message for="Row 1">Row with specified criteria already exists.</Message>
   <Message for="Row 2">Request does not contain required columns.</Message>
   <Message for="Row 3">No row matching specified criteria was found.</Message>
   <Message for="Row 4">Validation error, field type:Number value:test</Message>
  </Messages>
 </ErrorMessage>
</ApiResponse>

Please note that the error response contains information about errors in specific rows (identified by the index number of a row, starting from 1). If there were rows that were not reported here as an error it means that those rows were successfully updated in data tables.