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Raheel S.
11 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Offtopic: To Check or Not to check for duplication. (DBDatastores)
This is purely off topic. Not dropbox related at all, but really this is a sync design question. (if this is against the rules, My apologies to the mods).
I've been struggling with an idea to avoi...
Steve M.
Dropbox Staff
11 years agoYou may want to take a look at https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/84/initializing-data-in-datastores-with-getorinsert, which shows how to use getOrInsert to avoid duplicates. The basic idea is that you need to model your data in such a way that if two records are considered "duplicates," then they'll have the same record ID. Then getOrInsert will take care of avoiding duplicates altogether, which lets you stop worrying about it.
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