Are you actually experiencing performance issues? If not, I would just use
count == 0.
WebObjects is incredibly efficient and I would trust it to do the right thing
until it doesn’t. It is easy to waste a lot of time trying to fix things that
are not actually a problem.
You can always put it in a little method:
public boolean someRelationshipIsEmpty() {
return someRelationship().count() == 0;
}
Then if it is an issue later, you can take care if it in one place.
Steve
> On Feb 3, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Theodore Petrosky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> but what about raw SQL? Instead of talking to the EO.
>
> Of course my methods always end up convoluted but I thought about putting a
> method on the EO that uses raw SQL to return the count of related objects.
>
>
>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 8:34 PM, OC <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I'd bet this must be a WebObjects 101, but I can't see the best answer: is
>> there an efficient way of checking whether an eo.someRelationship is empty?
>>
>> So far I simply check eo.someRelationship.count==0, but that might fire a
>> fault, which is not exactly efficient if the only need is to know whether
>> the relationship is empty or not.
>>
>> Of course I could rig myself something like “if already fetched in, simply
>> check array count; if still fault, fetch max one object and see whether
>> there's any...”, but this looks like a ubiquitous task enough it simply
>> _must_ be done already (and in a far better way than I would do it myself)?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> OC
>>
>>
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