JDBCTemplate find if row exists

Question

I am curious as to how I should use springs jdbctemplate class to determine if a record or row exists already in one of my tables?? I have tried

int count = jdbcTemplate.queryForObject("select * from MyTable
                                  where Param = ?", new Object[] {myParam},
                                  Integer.class);
if(count ==0)
    //record does not exist

The issue is though I keep getting either EmptyResultAccessDataException's, when it doesn't exist so I updated the code to

try{
    jdbcTemplate.queryForObject("select * from MyTable
                                  where Param = ?", new Object[] {myParam},
                                  Integer.class);
} catch(EmptyResultAccessDataException e) {//insert the record}

which then gives me issues if the record does exist. So I guess my real question is what is the best method to search for a records existence in a table as I want to add said record if it doesn't and do nothing if it does.

Answer 1

You may use something like this:

String sql = "SELECT count(*) FROM MyTable WHERE Param = ?";
boolean exists = false;
int count = getJdbcTemplate().queryForObject(sql, new Object[] { "paramValue" }, Integer.class);
exists = count > 0;

Angelo