zachdaniel:

Initial support (still experimental) for basic actions has been pushed to main. A basic action is essentially just a function, but with some of the benefits of standard Ash actions. You specify input arguments and the return type. This will eventually be supported by the api extensions as well.

action :hello, :string do
  argument :name, :string, allow_nil?: false

  run(fn input, _context ->
    {:ok, "Hello #{input.arguments.name}"}
  end)
end

The benefit of using basic actions instead of defining normal functions:

• They can be used with api extensions
• They support Ash authorization patterns (i.e policies)
• They can be included in the code interface of a resource
• They can be made transactional with a single option ( transaction? true )

zachdaniel:

api extension support coming at some unknown point in the future. PRs welcome 😄

jharton:

This is absolutely awesome my dude.

Eduardo B. Alexandre:

This is amazing, exactly what I needed to integrate with FunWithFlags, thanks!

\ ឵឵឵:

If you’re still searching for a name for these things: generic actions

zachdaniel:

yep, thats better 🙂

zachdaniel:

Changing that in the docs