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Check if collection exists
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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.
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
}
`
`
collectionAccess.collection("myCollection").collectionExists(function(err, result) {
if (err) {
response.error(err);
} else {
response.body = result;
response.complete();
}
});
`
This will output
`
{
exists: true
}
`
Pankaj Chawla