Query Thing by Name

[emoreira]

Trying to create a service query a Thing by name and check if it exists or not, but it seems I am having trouble with the Syntax. I looked at the Wike and tried to use the syntax there, but still get empty results.

Anybody knows an easy way to do it?

thanks

E

[adam11]

Hi Ewerton,

If you want to see if a Thing exists, you can do:

if (Things[thingName]) {

 // It Exists

} else {

  // It Doesn't

}

If the Thing does not exist, Things[thingName] will be null, which evaluates to false in a conditional.