Ecto.Repo to check if id exists in the database, Phoenix framework

Question

• How do I check if an id exists in the database?

  def get_user!(id), do: Repo.get!(User, id)
  

• get_user!(id) can be used to get the user, is there a way to check if id exists?

• I want something like below which would return true.

  MyApp.Accounts.get_user!(user_id) == %MyApp.Accounts.User{id: user_id}

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Answer 1

Ecto v3 supports this with Ecto.Repo.exists?/2

import Ecto.Query, only: [from: 2]

Repo.exists?(from u in User, where: u.id == ^user_id)

Sweeps

Super useful! Thanks. – Evenings

Answer 2

Repo.get! throws an error if no record is found. You might want to use Repo.get instead like

Repo.get(User, user_id) != nil

You can also define a function to check if a give user id exists

def user_exist_by_id(user_id)do
    #select just id to reduce payload
    query = (from u in User, where: u.id == ^user_id, select: %{id: u.id})
    found = Repo.one(query)
    #if not result, found will be nil
    found != nil
end

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