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by biarity 3054 days ago
I myself really dislike that piece of code (searching in exception strings isn't secure for many reasons, for example someone could use this to reverse-engineer information about my database). But the only alternative that comes to mind is to check if an entity exists before attempting to create it - which I don't like because it leads to repetitive code in large projects (and I might forget to write checks). Any other ideas?