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Checking for a dataobject that exists


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Harley

Community Member, 165 Posts

1 November 2009 at 7:23am

Does anybody have any idea of how I can check whether or not a dataobject already exists? I'm just looking for an if statement that I can use before making my dataobject that I want to create.

Thanks

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ajshort

Community Member, 244 Posts

1 November 2009 at 10:58am

if(DataObject::get_one('DataObjectType'))

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Harley

Community Member, 165 Posts

2 November 2009 at 11:57am

Thanks for the reply,

I'm actually creating a group on the fly each time I create a page. The group is named by the title of the page so what I would like to do is check that there is not already a group of the same name.

This is the if statement I am using but it doesn't seem to be working for me:

if(DataObject::get_one('Group') != $this->Title)

I'm sure it's just a sytax problem but I can't seem to figure it out

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

2 November 2009 at 12:32pm

DataObject::get_one() returns the whole object so that comparison won't work. You can however add it as a where cause in the statement

if(DataObject::get_one('Group', "Title != '$this->Title'")) 

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Harley

Community Member, 165 Posts

2 November 2009 at 1:19pm

Thanks willr,

I've tried your suggestion but it seems that this check still is not working, the security group is still being duplicated.

To give you a better idea I have posted the code from my page class here:

static $has_written = false;

function onBeforeWrite(){

if(DataObject::get_one('Group', "Title != '$this->Title'")){
if(!self::$has_written){
$group = new Group();
$group->Title = $this->Title;
$group->write();
}
self::$has_written = true;
}
parent::onBeforeWrite();
}

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

2 November 2009 at 1:49pm

Well think about what thats saying. Thats saying if there is not a Group without the Title 'Title'. Which will mean it won't work if you have any other group.

Try something like

if(!DataObject::get_one('Group', "Title = '$this->Title'"))

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Harley

Community Member, 165 Posts

2 November 2009 at 2:30pm

Ah you're the man!

Yes that's it, works like a dream. One more question though related to this, when creating a new page I'm getting a security group being created for 'New Page'. Is there anyway to avoid this happening? I'm not quite sure why this is happening in the first place.

Otherwise works like a charm now though

Thanks again

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

2 November 2009 at 2:57pm

if($this->Title != "New Page" && !DataObject::get_one('Group', "Title != '$this->Title'")) {

Or is that just too hacky :D

I'm not quite sure why this is happening in the first place.

When you create a page it writes a copy of it (even before you have added any data) to ensure that the page ID exists, allowing you to add things like relationships without saving the page before hand.

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