How to check if documents exist?

Certified Associate Developer

Hi there, I am trying to create an expression rule that returns true if a document is not null, and has an ID attached to it. The expression rule is used to determine an XOR node to go to the document deletion node to delete the document if it exists, or to move to the end node if it has already been deleted. Right now, I am using a plugin isObjectExists() and it does work correctly but my supervisor wants me to improve the code to not use that plugin, any ideas for what to do?

Here is the expression rule I created, it currently works how I want it to but I want to avoid using the plugin, any help is appreciated!

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    Certified Lead Developer
    in reply to nickk1385

    I do not know of any way to determine document existence without a plugin.

    But wait ... in the applications I build, I always store meta data to the database, and whenever a file is created or deleted, I use that meta data to perform that activity. So I never get into a situation where I need to check whether a file exists for some random id.

    Instead of solving the problem, I avoid it altogether.

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