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Lneuner
Lneuner

Reputation: 1100

Parse.com: Check if Class exists

Is there a way to check if a Class with a certain name exists in Parse?

In my db I am creating classes on the fly and want to check if a Class exists before querying it.

I know one way would be to store all the names of the class in a dedicated class just with the names of the created classes and then to query that. I am wondering if there is a more direct approach

Upvotes: 1

Views: 567

Answers (2)

daksh_019
daksh_019

Reputation: 862

You can make a get request on the "schema api" for the class whose existence you want to check.

If the class is not found then an error message is returned clearly stating that the class doesn't exist/ not found.

Here is the link showing how to make a fetch request on the class schema:

http://parseplatform.github.io/docs/rest/guide/#fetch-the-schema

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 0

uksz
uksz

Reputation: 18699

I think there is not yet a method implemented to check if the class exist. What you can do, is do a query on the class name and if it returns an empty list of objects, it is fair to assume that the class does not exist.

Upvotes: 3

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