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In [[computer programming]], '''create, read, update, and delete''' ('''CRUD''') are the four basic operations (actions) of [[persistent storage]].<ref name="james-martin">{{cite book |last=Martin |first=James |author-link=James Martin (author) |year=1983 |title=Managing the Data-base Environment |publisher=Prentice-Hall |place=Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey |isbn=0-135-50582-8 |page=381 |url=https://archive.org/details/managingdatabase00mart/page/381}}</ref> CRUD is also sometimes used to describe [[user interface]] conventions that facilitate viewing, searching, and changing information using computer-based [[form (document)|form]]s and [[report]]s.

== History ==

In [[computing]], [[CRUD]] is an [[acronym]] for '''c'''reate, '''r'''etrieve, '''u'''pdate, and '''d'''elete. It is used to refer to the basic functions of a [[database]] or persistence layer in a [[software]] system.

The term ''CRUD'' was likely first popularized in 1983<ref>{{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=James |title=Managing the data-base environment |date=1983 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |___location=Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey |isbn=0135505828 |page=381 |url=https://archive.org/details/managingdatabase00mart/page/381}}</ref> by [[James Martin (author)|James Martin]] in his book ''Managing the data-base environment''.

== Conceptual ==

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Data can be put in a ''___location/area'' of a storage mechanism.

* The fundamental feature of a storage ___location is that its ''content'' is both ''readable'' and ''updatable''.

A fast-paced game purported to originate in the Royal Canadian Air Force (and popular with the Unitest States Air Force) played on a pool or snooker table using the cue ball (the "shooter") and any other pool ball (the "object ball"), and no cues. Only the corner pockets on the table are used, the side pockets are blocked. Crud is played by two teams. Each team member has three "lives." Only one member of each team is at the pool table at a time. One player rolls the shooter at the object ball while their opponent defends by attempting to distract the player. The shooter can only be thrown from one of the short ends of the table (i.e. not the sides with the blocked side pockets). If the shooter misses the object ball for three tries, they lose a life. If the object ball is struck, then it is their opponent's turn to pick up the shooter. If their opponent is unable to hit the object ball with the shooter before the object ball either stops motion or goes in a pocket, the opponent loses a life. Once the opponent has shot, the next player on the original team shoots. Players keep trading off until the object ball is sunk or stops, or if there is a foul. Two typical fouls are touching the object ball, or shooting from one of the long sides of the table ("balls").

* Before a storage ___location can be read or updated it needs to be ''created''; that is allocated and initialized with content.

* At some later point, the storage ___location may need to be ''destructed''; that is finalized and deallocated.

Together these four operations make up the basic operations of storage management known as CRUD: ''Create'', ''Read'', ''Update'' and ''Delete''.

Two variants of the rules are http://www.aifcv.org/pdf/CRUDRULES2000.pdf and http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_printview-t-1266-start-0.html

== Use cases ==

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=== Databases ===

The acronym CRUD refers to the major operations which are implemented by [[database]]s. Each letter in the acronym can be mapped to a standard [[SQL|Structured Query Language (SQL)]] statement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.educative.io/blog/crud-operations|title=CRUD operations explained: Create, read, update, delete|author=Maryam Sulemani|date=7 April 2021|access-date=14 December 2021}}</ref>

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1). A coating or an incrustation of filth or refuse.

! CRUD

2). Something loathsome, despicable, or worthless.

! SQL

3). One who is contemptible or disgusting.

|-

| Create

| [[Insert (SQL)|INSERT]]

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| Read

| [[Select (SQL)|SELECT]]

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| Update

| [[Update (SQL)|UPDATE]]

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| Delete

| [[Delete (SQL)|DELETE]]

|}

Although [[relational database]]s are a common [[persistence layer]] in software applications, numerous other persistence layers exist. CRUD functionality can for example be implemented with [[document database]]s, [[object database]]s, [[XML database]]s, text files, or binary files.

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Some [[big data]] systems do not implement UPDATE, but have only a timestamped INSERT (journaling), storing a completely new version of the object each time.

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=== RESTful APIs ===

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The acronym CRUD also appears in the discussion of [[Representational state transfer|RESTful APIs]]. Each letter in the acronym may be mapped to a [[HTTP method|Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) method]]:

a non offensive swear word e.g. oh crud

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! CRUD

! HTTP

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| Create

| [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol#Request methods|POST, PUT]] if we don't have `id` or `uuid`<!-- Do not replace with POST which is not a CRUD operation (cf. below). -->

|- <!-- POST should be added.

POST is a CRUD operation in the same way as SQL INSERT.

If the key is specified in INSERT, then the equivalent REST is indeed PUT.

On the other hand, if a table autogenerates the key and the INSERT doesn't have the key, then the equivalent REST is POST.

"that doesn’t mean we can live without it. POST serves many useful purposes in HTTP." It is the standard way of creating a new object where the server assigns the id. We can't help that in all other ways, POST is as loosy goosy as Roy said.

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CRUD is also the name of a New Jersey nihilist author/musician whose transgressive literature will soon have the Department of Homeland Security fast on his heels. Sometimes called Crudfucker or Lowlife Crud, this artist splits his time between two jobs, the reservoir, the Lower East Side and the bathroom, respectively.

The user agent doesn't always have the onus of knowing the key/id when creating in web or relational databases. Knowing the key when creating is NOT a requirement of CRUD, SQL, or REST. -->

| Read

| [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol#Request methods|GET]]

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| Update

| [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol#Request methods|PUT]] to replace, [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol#Request methods|PATCH]] to modify

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| Delete

| [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol#Request methods|DELETE]]

|}

In HTTP, the GET (read), PUT (create and update), POST (create - if we don't have `id` or `uuid`), and DELETE (delete) methods are CRUD operations as they have storage management semantics, meaning that they let [[user agent]]s directly manipulate the states of target [[Web resource|resources]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4 |title=Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content, Section 4 |last=Fielding |first=Roy |date=June 2014 |website=IETF |publisher=Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) |access-date=2018-02-14 |rfc=7231}}</ref> The [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol#Request methods|POST]] method, on the other hand, is a process operation that has target-resource-specific semantics which typically exceed the scope of CRUD operations.<ref name="it-is-okay-to-use-post">{{cite web|url=https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2009/it-is-okay-to-use-post |title=It is okay to use POST |author=Roy T. Fielding |publisher=roy.gbiv.com |date=2009-03-20 |access-date=2020-04-14 |quote=POST only becomes an issue when it is used in a situation for which some other method is ideally suited: e.g., retrieval of information that should be a representation of some resource (GET), complete replacement of a representation (PUT), or any of the other standardized methods that tell intermediaries something more valuable than “this may change something.” The other methods are more valuable to intermediaries because they say something about how failures can be automatically handled and how intermediate caches can optimize their behavior. POST does not have those characteristics, but that doesn’t mean we can live without it. POST serves many useful purposes in HTTP, including the general purpose of “this action isn’t worth standardizing.”}}</ref>

=== User interface ===

{{original research|section=yes|date=November 2018}}

CRUD is also relevant at the user interface level of most applications. For example, in address book software, the basic storage unit is an individual ''contact entry''. As a bare minimum, the software must allow the user to:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kann|first=Charles|url=https://eng.libretexts.org/@go/page/27566|title=Programming for the Web - From Soup to Nuts - Implementing a Complete GIS Web Page|publisher=Gettysburg College|pages=6.1 CRUD Interface}}</ref>

* ''Create'', or add new entries

* ''Read'', retrieve, search, or view existing entries

* ''Update'', or edit existing entries

* ''Delete'', deactivate, or remove existing entries

Because these operations are so fundamental, they are often [[Software documentation|documented]] and described under one comprehensive heading such as "contact management" or "document management" in general.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}

== Other variations ==

Other variations of CRUD include:

* ABCD (add, browse, change, delete)

* CRUDL (create, read, update, delete, list)

*BREAD (browse, read, edit, add, delete)<ref>{{cite web |year=2008 |title=BREAD, not CRUD |author=Paul M. Jones |url=http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/291}}</ref>

* DAVE (delete, add, view, edit)<ref>{{cite book|last1=McGaw|first1=James|title=Beginning Django E-Commerce|date=21 June 2010 |page=41 |publisher=Apress |isbn=9781430225362 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwO1GzMN_QsC&q=DAVE&pg=PA41}}</ref>

* CRAP (create, replicate, append, process)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://blog.dellemc.com/en-us/crap-and-crud-from-database-to-datacloud/ |title=CRAP and CRUD: From Database to Datacloud - Direct2DellEMC |date=2012-11-13 |work=Direct2DellEMC |access-date=2018-01-30 |language=en-US}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Representational state transfer]] (REST)

* [[Active record pattern]]

* [[Data manipulation language]]

* [[Input/output]]

* [[ACID]]

* [[Query by Example]]

* [[Command–query separation]]

* [[Scaffold (programming)]]

== References ==

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