Merge pull request #534 from diesel-rs/sg-exists

Add a function for SQL `EXISTS` expressions.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ for Rust libraries in [RFC #1105](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/
 
 [insert]: http://docs.diesel.rs/diesel/fn.insert.html
 
+* Added a function for SQL `EXISTS` expressions. See
+  [`diesel::expression::dsl::exists`][exists] for details.
+
+[exists]: http://docs.diesel.rs/diesel/expression/dsl/fn.sql.html
+
 ### Changed
 
 * All macros with the same name as traits we can derive (e.g. `Queryable!`) have

diesel/src/expression/exists.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+use backend::Backend;
+use expression::{Expression, SelectableExpression, NonAggregate};
+use query_builder::*;
+use result::QueryResult;
+use types::Bool;
+
+/// Creates a SQL `EXISTS` expression.
+///
+/// The argument must be a complete SQL query. The result of this could in
+/// theory be passed to `.filter`, but since the query cannot reference columns
+/// from the outer query, this is of limited usefulness.
+///
+/// # Example
+///
+/// ```rust
+/// # #[macro_use] extern crate diesel;
+/// # include!("src/doctest_setup.rs");
+/// #
+/// # table! {
+/// #     users {
+/// #         id -> Integer,
+/// #         name -> VarChar,
+/// #     }
+/// # }
+/// #
+/// # fn main() {
+/// #     use self::users::dsl::*;
+/// #     use diesel::select;
+/// #     use diesel::expression::dsl::exists;
+/// #     let connection = establish_connection();
+/// let sean_exists = select(exists(users.filter(name.eq("Sean"))))
+///     .get_result(&connection);
+/// let jim_exists = select(exists(users.filter(name.eq("Jim"))))
+///     .get_result(&connection);
+/// assert_eq!(Ok(true), sean_exists);
+/// assert_eq!(Ok(false), jim_exists);
+/// # }
+/// ```
+pub fn exists<T: AsQuery>(query: T) -> Exists<T::Query> {
+    Exists(query.as_query())
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
+pub struct Exists<T>(T);
+
+impl<T> Expression for Exists<T> where
+    T: Query,
+{
+    type SqlType = Bool;
+}
+
+impl<T, QS> SelectableExpression<QS> for Exists<T> where
+    Exists<T>: Expression,
+{
+}
+
+impl<T> NonAggregate for Exists<T> {
+}
+
+impl<T, DB> QueryFragment<DB> for Exists<T> where
+    DB: Backend,
+    T: QueryFragment<DB>,
+{
+    fn to_sql(&self, out: &mut DB::QueryBuilder) -> BuildQueryResult {
+        out.push_sql("EXISTS (");
+        try!(self.0.to_sql(out));
+        out.push_sql(")");
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn collect_binds(&self, out: &mut DB::BindCollector) -> QueryResult<()> {
+        try!(self.0.collect_binds(out));
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn is_safe_to_cache_prepared(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0.is_safe_to_cache_prepared()
+    }
+}
+
+impl_query_id!(Exists<T>);

diesel/src/expression/mod.rs

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ pub mod array_comparison;
 pub mod bound;
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub mod count;
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub mod exists;
 pub mod expression_methods;
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub mod functions;
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ pub mod dsl {
     #[doc(inline)] pub use super::functions::aggregate_ordering::*;
     #[doc(inline)] pub use super::functions::aggregate_folding::*;
     #[doc(inline)] pub use super::sql_literal::sql;
+    #[doc(inline)] pub use super::exists::exists;
 
     #[cfg(feature = "postgres")]
     pub use pg::expression::dsl::*;