createProductsWorkflow - Medusa Core Workflows Reference

This documentation provides a reference to the createProductsWorkflow. It belongs to the @medusajs/medusa/core-flows package.

This workflow creates one or more products. It's used by the Create Product Admin API Route. It can also be useful to you when creating seed scripts, for example.

This workflow has a hook that allows you to perform custom actions on the created products. You can see an example in this guide.

You can also use this workflow within your customizations or your own custom workflows, allowing you to wrap custom logic around product creation.

Source Code

Examples#

Steps#

Input#

CreateProductsWorkflowInputCreateProductsWorkflowInput
The data to create one or more products, along with custom data that's passed to the workflow's hooks.
The products to create.
additional_dataRecord<string, unknown>Optional
Additional data that can be passed through the additional_data property in HTTP requests. Learn more in this documentation.

Output#

ProductDTO[]ProductDTO[]
ProductDTOProductDTO
A product's data.

Hooks#

Hooks allow you to inject custom functionalities into the workflow. You'll receive data from the workflow, as well as additional data sent through an HTTP request.

Learn more about Hooks and Additional Data.

productsCreated#

This step is a hook that you can inject custom functionality into.

Example

Code
1import { createProductsWorkflow } from "@medusajs/medusa/core-flows"2
3createProductsWorkflow.hooks.productsCreated(4  (async ({ products, additional_data }, { container }) => {5    //TODO6  })7)

Input

Handlers consuming this hook accept the following input.

inputobject
The input data for the hook.
productsProductDTO[]
additional_dataRecord<string, unknown> | undefined
Additional data that can be passed through the additional\_data property in HTTP requests. Learn more in this documentation.
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