Yesod return whole Entity after insert?

Question

Basically right now I run fbId <- runDB $ insert myNewFooBar and I get back a Key FooBar. Is there any way to return the value of the whole FooBar directly from an insert without running a separate query of runDB $ get404 fbId after?

Answer 1

Another, shorter option is to use insertEntity, which returns an entity instead of a record. Under the hood this function calls insert and builds an entity from the supplied record and the returned key (no additional DB queries).

insertedFooBar <- runDB $ insertEntity myNewFooBar

Answer 2

I just build the Entity Haskell-side: Entity fbId myNewFooBar.