Is there a way to check if a collection already exists?

Hi Pankaj!



We don't have direct support for this in our API. The next best thing you can do is to perform a GET on the collection and count the number of objects that are returned.



Edited: my previous answer was incorrect.

Thanks Morgan. Since its from within BL I have access to modules.collectionAccess.collection("collectionName"). Is there a way to use this object to figure if the collection pre exists. I guess using count() would be one option but is there a better way via collectionAccess module?

A method for this was just added this week:



`

collectionAccess.collection("myCollection").collectionExists(function(err, result) {

if (err) {

response.error(err);

} else {

response.body = result;

response.complete();

}

});

`

This will output



`

{

exists: true

}

`