I want to add a value to an array if its not already there.
So far my code looks something like this (note that both r.names and {name} are arrays, and [1] + [2] = [1,2]
):
MERGE (r:resource {hash:{hash}})
ON CREATE SET r.names = {name}
ON MATCH SET r.names = r.names + {name}
but obviously if {name}
is already in r.names
, it just gets added again. How can I add {name}
only if r.names
doesn't already contain it?
I guess you need to use the FOREACH
+ CASE WHEN
trick: using a case when
you use either a 1 element array (if your condition is true) or a 0 element array otherwise as iterator used in FOREACH
. FOREACH
cannot be used in a ON MATCH
or ON CREATE
handler, so we put it after the MERGE
and use a coalesce
to cover the case when r.names does not yet exist:
MERGE (r:Resource {hash:{hash}})
FOREACH(x in CASE WHEN {name} in r.names THEN [] ELSE [1] END |
SET r.names = coalesce(r.names,[]) + {name}
)
RETURN r.names