Find record whose field 'name' not contained within any other record
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I have a model Foo
with a String
bar
and a String
name
. Some records' bar
contain the name
of other records in them. This is intentional.
I want to find the "root Foo" records - that is, the ones where their name
do not appear in the bar
records of any other Foo
records.
Example:
Foo
id: 1
name: 'foo1'
bar: 'something something'
id: 2
name: 'foo2'
bar: 'foo1 something'
id: 3
name: 'foo3'
bar: 'foo1, foo4'
My method root_foos
would return foo2
and foo3
since their names do not appear in any bar
string.
edit: I don't want to use a relation or foreign key here - just this method.
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