[erlang-questions] How best to return db query

[Sergej Jurečko]

I disagree. That kind of logic does not belong in a db interface function.

Sergej
On Feb 8, 2016 1:25 AM, "Bernard Duggan" <bernard@REDACTED> wrote:

> >An empty result to a db query is not an error.
> That rather depends on the semantics of your program. In the general case,
> you're absolutely right, of course - that's why mnesia:read() doesn't
> return an error in that case. However, perhaps in the case of Lloyd's
> application, there should always be something in that particular table -
> maybe something populated at startup that nothing should ever delete. In
> that case it would be perfectly reasonable to not just produce an error,
> but in fact to crash.
> So I guess what I'm saying is that my answer would be "it depends on what
> you want the semantics of get_note to be". Is it expected to always return
> one or more values? Is it an error if it doesn't, and if so, is that error
> sensibly recoverable by the caller?
>
> Cheers,
>
> B
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Sergej Jurečko <sergej.jurecko@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> An empty result to a db query is not an error.
>>
>> Sergej
>> On Feb 7, 2016 7:38 PM, <lloyd@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have this mnesia query:
>>>
>>>
>>> get_note(ID) ->
>>>     Query =
>>>         fun() ->
>>>             mnesia:read({?TABLE, ID})
>>>         end,
>>>     {atomic, Results} = mnesia:transaction(Query),
>>>     Results.
>>>
>>> It returns either a list containing one or more valid records or an
>>> empty list.
>>>
>>> Would it be better to return something like:
>>>
>>> {ok, Records} | {error, data_not_found}
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> LRP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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