That will probably work. I was thinking it would be nice to build in a method findOrNew that would do it for me... but it looks like that might involve some sort of implicit manifest thingy, so I don't know.
Chas. Viktor Klang wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Charles F. Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Is there a simple way in JPA/Lift to query to retrieve a single object > from the database, assign it to a val if found, or create a new object > of that type and assign it instead of there is no such object in the > database? > > Sort of a... > > val user: User = > Model.createNamedQuery( > "findUserByUsername", > "username" -> "hal" > ).findOr(new User()) > > > (Can ! (yourQuery.uniqueResult)).openOr(new User()) > > Should work? > > > > or something like that? That would be very useful. > > Thanks, > Chas. > > > > > > -- > Viktor Klang > Senior Systems Analyst > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
