this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
9 points (100.0% liked)

Rust

5744 readers
9 users here now

Welcome to the Rust community! This is a place to discuss about the Rust programming language.

Wormhole

[email protected]

Credits

  • The icon is a modified version of the official rust logo (changing the colors to a gradient and black background)

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

in sequelize (javascript) it's pretty straightforward to either find a record, or create it if it doesn't exist. I don't see anything similar with sea-orm. There's a 'save' method that seems to insert or update, but I need to know details about the record ahead of time :/

Any ideas?

https://sequelize.org/docs/v6/core-concepts/model-querying-finders/

top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I managed to get this working, but there has to be a better way. How else could I write this?

  pub async fn insert_or_return_user(
        db: &DbConn,
        partial_user: Auth0UserPart,
    ) -> Result {
        let user = users::ActiveModel {
            email: Set(partial_user.email.to_owned()),
            email_verified: Set(partial_user.email_verified.to_owned()),
            auth0_sub: Set(partial_user.sub.to_owned()),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let result = user.clone().insert(db).await;

        match result {
            Ok(u) => {
                println!("{u:#?}");
                Ok(u.try_into_model().unwrap() as UsersModel)
            }
            Err(error) => {
                let user = Users::find()
                    .filter(users::Column::Auth0Sub.eq(&partial_user.sub))
                    .one(db)
                    .await?;

                Ok(user.unwrap() as UsersModel)
            }
        }
    }
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have never used sea-orm, but I wonder if .on_conflict could be used to simplify the code above?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This is likely what OP will have to do. It actually looks like ANSI SQL now has merge, but you can scroll down a bit and see how each DB handles it slightly differently if you don't use merge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think I had that in a few attempts, I can't remember why I removed it. Thanks for pointing this out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would likely do it in reverse. Try and find the object and if it doesn't exist create it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That will always be prune to race conditions, where you check if someting exists (then some other thread creates it) and then you try to create it. You should always try to create first, then if it fails due to it already existing, fetch it. That is a good general rule for anything from hashmaps to databases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's true, but also trying to create first has a race condition too. The above code will panic at the unwrap if the record is deleted after the failed insert, and before the select

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So, a loop it is....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm new to multithreaded programming. How would some other thread create it? Like what's the real-world scenario?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is all dependent on the program, but the simplest scenario is by an API with two requests at the same time. But it may also be like if you scan for new files, and use inotify, then you may also have a scanning loop as a fallback. Then the scan and inotify may trigger at almost the same time, so if that then results in a db create or insert you can get in to this problem. So, there are multiple ways to get in to trouble, and life always find new ways 😀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Indeed it does haha, thanks