Author Topic: Null or exception when no value found for getsingle call? (Read 488 times)

JoeMurray · May 04, 2015, 02:59:53 pm

$membership = civicrm_api3('Membership', 'getsingle', array(
'id' => $membership_id
);

I have a report that if no membership is found this code is raising an exception rather than returning null. Shouldn't this return null if none found? Or should we be putting try/catch around each API call to deal with no return values?

Eileen · May 04, 2015, 09:31:33 pm

If you use 'getsingle' it will throw an Exception if it does not find exactly 1 result. If you use 'get' it will return what it finds. (getvalue is in the same camp as getsingle).

So, it depends on what you are doing which you use. Being able to use getsingle with a try catch can be pretty handy - but if you don't care if none exist then use get instead.

JoeMurray · May 05, 2015, 11:09:00 am

Thanks. I hadn't realized there was supposed to be variations in error handling.

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JoeMurray

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