About BOps

The Business Operations are the heart of your business, they can be whatever you need them to be, and should represent a process in your system.

Users cannot be younger than 13 years old? That's a business operation. Should you send an email when users complete their 10th purchase? Another BOps!

Creating A BOps

In the configuration file, "businessOperations" is a list of objects. Each of those objects contains a chunk information for Meta-System to understand a part of the business rules of your company/product.

BOps Properties

A BOps can have the following properties specified:

"input" - Object Definition (required)

Information your operation needs to have in order to be executed. These are the function parameters.

"output" - Object Definition (required)

This is the information output by your function. What is returns.

"constants" - Single Parameter Type (required Array)

This is all the information that your function uses and is not modified throughout its execution. For example, a BOp "plusTwo", that takes in any number and outputs it plus two should have the value "2" as a constant.

This is treated more in depth in the Constants and Variables section.

"variables" - Single Parameter Type (required Array)

Variables is a list of the named values that may change during the execution of a BOp. It can be used to record, for instance, how many times a loop was executed.

There are specific built in functions for modifying these values. Check Constants and Variables section for more information.

"configuration" - Bops Module (required Array)

This is the soul of your business operation, where all the logic is set and the flow is executed. It is a list of all the steps that exists in the operation, their dependencies, data, and the functions themselves.

Since this is quite a complex subject, we have a page dedicated to the rules of this function, and what it does. See BOps Configuration.

"ttl" - Number (optional)

Defines a Time To Live for this BOps. If this time is exceeded in milliseconds, MSYS will reject the promise of the BOp.

"identifier" - String (required)

Identifies this BOp with a string for Meta-System. This string will be used to reference the BOp anywhere in your system.