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2021-04-07T05:51:42.204300Z
I'm having trouble with datomic client q api, where the aggregate function count returns an empty list instead of 0 if no items were found. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance
(d/q '[:find (count ?e)
:where [?e :migration/name "non_existing_name"]]
db) ;; => [] instead of [[0]] 2021-04-07T12:21:25.204900Z
ended up doing count outside the query
(count (flatten (d/q ...etc)))
favila 2021-04-07T13:06:36.205100Z
Aggregation functions are not called on empty resultsets
favila 2021-04-07T13:08:11.205300Z
The flatten shouldn’t be necessary.
favila 2021-04-07T13:09:15.205500Z
if you want to save the bandwidth of returning all items, you can use 0 as a fallback e.g. (or (ffirst result) 0)
2021-04-07T14:05:01.205700Z
noted, thanks for the tip @favila