Performing CRUD Operations synchronously in CRM 2011 through JSON

Synchronous methods to create, update and delete the records for the Account entity through JSON. These methods works synchronously.

Create Records: To create the record into the CRM, you need to create an object for that record. After that you need to create the object of the XMLHttpRequest and open this request through “POST” method and need to call the send method with this jsonEntity (create from the target record).

function createRecord( ) {
var account = new Object( );
account.Name = “Create Sample”;
account.Telephone1 = “555-0123”;
account.AccountNumber = “ABCDEFGHIJ”;
account.EMailAddress1 = “someone1@example.com“;

var jsonEntity = window.JSON.stringify(account);
var createRecordReq = new XMLHttpRequest( );
var ODataPath = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl( ) + “/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc”;
createRecordReq.open(‘POST’, ODataPath + “/” + “AccountSet”, false);
createRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“Accept”, “application/json“);
createRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/json; charset=utf-8“);
createRecordReq.send(jsonEntity);

var newRecord = JSON.parse(createRecordReq.responseText).d;
//Alert the Id of the created record
alert(“Id is: ” + newRecord.AccountId);
}

Update Record: Update record request is same as the create but for the Update we need to set the Additional request header for the Method in the XMLHttpRequest. Here we have added the “MERGE” method. As shown below.
updateRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“X-HTTP-Method“, “MERGE“);

And when we open the request, we need to pass the guid of the record. As given in the below script.

function updateRecord( ) {
var account = Object( );
account.Name = “Update Name of this Account“;
var jsonEntity = window.JSON.stringify(account);
var updateRecordReq = new XMLHttpRequest( );
var ODataPath = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl( ) + “/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc”;
updateRecordReq.open(‘POST‘, ODataPath + “/” + “AccountSet” + “(guid‘” + “E72B45B9-58E0-E011-B700-00155D005515” + “‘)”, false);
updateRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“Accept“, “application/json“);
updateRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/json; charset=utf-8“);
updateRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“X-HTTP-Method”, “MERGE“);
updateRecordReq.send(jsonEntity);

}

Delete Record: This is same as update request but here we need to call the Method delete and call send method with the null parameter.

function deleteRecord( ) {
var deleteRecordReq = new XMLHttpRequest( );
var ODataPath = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl( ) + “/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc”;
deleteRecordReq.open(‘POST‘, ODataPath + “/” + “AccountSet” + “(guid‘” + “E72B45B9-58E0-E011-B700-00155D005515″ + “‘)”, false);

deleteRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“Accept”, “application/json“);
deleteRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/json; charset=utf-8“);
deleteRecordReq.setRequestHeader(“X-HTTP-Method”, “DELETE“);
deleteRecordReq.send(null);

}

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