BryanJBryce
I want to create an upsert action that will create a new record if no id is contained in the request and update the record if there is an id in the request. I thought that this might be the default behavior without upsert_identity or upset_fields options being set. However, none of these configurations works:
Action definition
create :save do
upsert? true
upsert_identity :unique_id
upsert_fields {:replace_all_except, [:id]}
end
Code Interface definition
define :save, action: :save
identities do
identity :unique_id, :id
end
However when I call:
instance = Resource.save!(%{name: "Name"}, tenant: "tenant")
instance2 = Resource.save!(%{name: "Name2", id: instance.id}, tenant: "tenant")
a second record is created in the database.
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zachdaniel
Hmm…that does look like the right way to do it. Granted, you don’t need the
unique_idconstraint ifidis the primary key. So it should have the behavior you said by default, meaning justupsert? truewould be necessary. What SQL does the insert produce?BryanJBryce
I was thinking that was the default, but when it didn’t work I tried adding the additional configuration. I’ll get that SQL for you.
BryanJBryce
BryanJBryce
Hrm, the id from the first isn’t showing up in the second…
BryanJBryce
FYI, this output is going back to just setting
upsert?: trueand removing the other configurationzachdaniel
Ah, okay right. So the issue is that the
idisn’t writable by yoursaveaction. You can do this:to make it writable.
BryanJBryce
That did it. Thanks for the help!