flag to emit an error if select result is null

[m9dfukc]

hey,

I'm using async.js waterfall method together with sequelize to prevent 'callback chains of doom'. One scenario I'm regularly confronted with is that the first call in a chain is a select query and the following parts of the chain deal with the result of this select ... most of the time this results in code like this:

async.waterfall([...
  function(callback) {
    Client.find(:id).done(function(err, res) {
      if(err !== null) callback(err);
      else if(res !== null) callback(new Error('Sorry no DB entry could be found!'));
      else callback(null, res);
    }):
  }, 
  function(client, callback) {...

... it would be nice to have an extra flag in Sequelize to produce an error if there is no result available so I could just pass trough my callback to done() and handle the errors in async's final method.

[janmeier]

Hi @m9dfukc

Does this still pose an issue for you, i.e. would you still like to see this in sequelize?

Do you propose doing this on global basis, per DAO basis or per call basis. My suggestion would be to do it per call, or maybe per DAO so you can still allow some queries to return an empty result