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ST 4U 154: Empty Query Results in VA Smalltalk

November 4, 2011 8:27:27.370

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at how to determine whether your database query came back empty in VA Smalltalk. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

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Today we'll look at checking the results from a query in VA Smalltalk, and then prompting the user on empty results. Let's do a query that should result in no answers:


"try a query that should return no rows"
resultCollection := OrderedCollection new.
querySpec := (AbtQuerySpec new)
	statement: 'SELECT * FROM PEOPLE where ZIPCODE = 34567'.
result := connection resultTableFromQuerySpec: querySpec.
result do: [:eachRow | resultCollection add: (eachRow)].
resultCollection isEmpty
	ifTrue:  [CwMessagePrompter message: 'No Rows Came Back' title: 'No Rows'].


The checking is fairly obvious; we simply use standard collection protocol. Then we use the standard CWMessagePrompter class to pop up a warning dialog.

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