Re: best stategry: check before create

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Ofer Nave wrote:

> One more question:
> 
> If the 'find_or_create' always returns an object, how can I tell if it 
> was found or created?

One suggestion is to override the create method in the base class. I 
asked this question previously and Tony Bowden replied with a suggestion 
below:

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:58:30PM +0000, Jim wrote:
 > I was looking at using find_or_create and wanted to do different actions
 > depending upon whether the data was found or was created.

At the minute there's no supported way I can think of for that.

The easiest thing I can think of is for you to override create(), either
in the single class or back up in your application parent class, to
store the information into the object that it's the result of a
creation:


sub create() {
my ($class, @args) = @_;
my $self = $class->SUPER::create(@args);
$self->{was_created} = 1;
return $self;
}

(Or perhaps use a TEMP column for this)

Tony