[12.x] Add docs about using 'exists' rule on array #10374
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I recently stumbled upon this bit of (to my knowledge) undocumented behaviour of the
exists
rule.I assumed that
exists
would not work on array values because the documentation did not specify that it would. So I validated incoming arrays of IDs like this:This queries the database for every single item in the array. Instead, you can specify the 'exists' rule as:
... which only generates a single
WHERE id IN (...)
query. This PR adds a little note on this to the docs.