sqlalchemy exists for query

Question

How do I check whether data in a query exists?

For example:

users_query = User.query.filter_by(email=\'x@x.com\')

How I can check w

Answer 1

For SQL Server, I had to do this:

from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import literal

result = session.query(literal(True)).filter(
    session.query(User)
    .filter_by(email='...')
    .exists()
).scalar()
print(result is not None)

# Resulting query:
# SELECT 1
# WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 
# FROM User
# WHERE User.email = '...')

But it's much simpler without EXISTS:

result = (
    session.query(literal(True))
    .filter(User.email == '...')
    .first()
)
print(result is not None)

# Resulting query:
# SELECT TOP 1 1
# FROM User
# WHERE User.email = '...'

Answer 2

The following solution is a bit simpler:

from sqlalchemy.sql import exists

print session.query(exists().where(User.email == '...')).scalar()

Answer 3

The most acceptable and readable option for me is

session.query(<Exists instance>).scalar()

like

session.query(User.query.filter(User.id == 1).exists()).scalar()

which returns True or False.

Answer 4

There is no way that I know of to do this using the orm query api. But you can drop to a level lower and use exists from sqlalchemy.sql.expression:

from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import select, exists

users_exists_select = select((exists(users_query.statement),)) 
print engine.execute(users_exists_select).scalar()