[Dbix-class] Fastest method to check for key existence?

[Charlie Garrison]

Good morning,

On 11/2/15 at 10:58 PM +0100, Ekki Plicht (DF4OR) <ekki at plicht.de> wrote:

>I am thinking of setting up a special resultset which contains only
>the key as a returned value by SELECT, but I am wondering if there is
>a faster method.

Put a method in your ResultSet class, eg:

sub key_exists {
    my ($self, $key) = @_;
    my $row = $self->find( $key );
    return $row ? 1 : 0;
}


Elsewhere:

my $got_row = $schema->resultset('RSClass')->key_exists($key);


Charlie

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