Question

is there anyway to do an ‘on duplicate entry update’ for an ebean save? Thanks.

Answer 1

It’s quite easy to do it in your controller ie. while binding form from request

 ...
Some some = form().bindFromRequest().get();
if (some.id == null){
    some.save();
} else {
    some.update(some.id)
}

That way the statement will be working on all DB engines not only these which has the mentioned feature.

Additionally you can do the trick in the model by overriding save() and update() of the Model class