cash wrote on 41418362-05-04

Easy to do but will it be used by enough people to justify the addition of at least four functions (entities, relationships, metadata, annotations)? Feedback welcome from anyone on this.

ewinslow wrote on 41500311-06-12

I think it'd be better for now to just write up some documentation on what the SQL clauses should be for those who want to acheive this. I'd certainly like to know!

brettp wrote on 41502173-04-25

Metadata (denormalize in code to make your life easier):

    $options['wheres'][] = "NOT EXISTS (
            SELECT 1 FROM {$dbprefix}metadata md
            WHERE md.entity_guid = e.guid
                AND md.name_id = $name_metastring_id
                AND md.value_id = $value_metastring_id)";

Relationships:

    $options['wheres'][] = "NOT EXISTS (
            SELECT 1 FROM {$db_prefix}entity_relationships
                WHERE guid_one = e.guid
                AND relationship = '$relationship'
        )";

brettp wrote on 42321985-08-31

I don't think there's enough of a use case to merit adding the new functions. Documentation above egef_metadata() and egef_relationship() should suffice.

Milestone changed to Elgg 1.8.5 by brettp on 42321985-08-31

Title changed from elgg_get_entities_without_* wrapper function to Document how to use egef_metadata/relationships() to get entities without specified MD/relationship. by brettp on 42321985-08-31

trac user Cash Costello wrote on 42516005-09-25

Fixes #3046 adds documentation for requesting entities that do not have metadata or relationships
Changeset: e9df078

trac user Cash Costello wrote on 42524624-10-26

Fixes #3046 adds documentation for requesting entities that do not have metadata or relationships
Changeset: e9df078