Waterline ORM equivalent of insert on duplicate key update - sql

Question

I have a table user_address and it has some fields like
attributes: {
user_id: 'integer',
address: 'string' //etc.
}
currently I'm doing this to insert a new record, but if one exists for this user, update it:
UserAddress
.query(
'INSERT INTO user_address (user_id, address) VALUES (?, ?) ' +
'ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE address=VALUES(address);',
params,
function(err) {
//error handling logic if err exists
}
Is there any way to use the Waterline ORM instead of straight SQL queries to achieve the same thing? I don't want to do two queries because it's inefficient and hard to maintain.

Answer 1

The answer above is less than ideal. It also has the method as part of the attributes for the model, which is not correct behavior.
Here is what the ideal native solution looks like that returns a promise just like any other waterline model function would:
module.exports = {
attributes: {
user_id: 'integer',
address: 'string'
},
updateOrCreate: function (user_id, address) {
return UserAddress.findOne().where({user_id: user_id}).then(function (ua) {
if (ua) {
return UserAddress.update({user_id: user_id}, {address: address});
} else {
// UserAddress does not exist. Create.
return UserAddress.create({user_id: user_id, address: address});
}
});
}
}
Then you can just use it like:
UserAddress.updateOrCreate(id, address).then(function(ua) {
// ... success logic here
}).catch(function(e) {
// ... error handling here
});

Answer 2

Make a custom model method that does what you want using Waterline queries isntead of raw SQL. You will be doing two queries, but with Waterline syntax.
Example below (if you don't know about deferred objects then just use callback syntax, but the logic is the same):
var Q = require('q');
module.exports = {
attributes: {
user_id: 'integer',
address: 'string',
updateOrCreate: function (user_id, address) {
var deferred = Q.defer();
UserAddress.findOne().where({user_id: user_id}).then(function (ua) {
if (ua) {
// UserAddress exists. Update.
ua.address = address;
ua.save(function (err) {deferred.resolve();});
} else {
// UserAddress does not exist. Create.
UserAddress.create({user_id: user_id, address: address}).done(function (e, ua) {deferred.resolve();});
}
}).fail(function (err) {deferred.reject()});
return deferred.promise;
}
};

Answer 3

#Eugene's answer is good but it will always run 2 operations: findOne + update or create. I believe we can optimize it further because if the record exists we just need to run update. Example:
module.exports = {
attributes: {
user_id: 'integer',
address: 'string'
},
updateOrCreate: function (user_id, address) {
return UserAddress.update({user_id: user_id}, {address: address})
.then(function(ua){
if(ua.length === 0){
// No records updated, UserAddress does not exist. Create.
return UserAddress.create({user_id: user_id, address: address});
}
});
}
}
BTW, there is an open request to implement .updateOrCreate in waterline: #790