Question

My model has 2 unique indexes. The primary key, and an alphanumeric id.

I only have the alphanumeric id when updating said record, so I need to add an “on duplicate key update” statement to the save function, but how do I do that?

And I do not want to query for the primary key first, as that would make the import process incredibly long and slow.

Answer 1

There is no supported ‘on duplicate key update’ options in cakephp.

If you really do not want to do the lookup, I would suggest changing the alphanumeric id to the primary key (as long as it is something like a UUID and not a varchar). If that is not an option, my best advice is to add a beforeSave method that does the integrity check.

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