alishir

alishir

Hi all, I have the following simple snippet but I got cyclic module usage error. Do you know how should I resolve the error?

defmodule Cycle do
  alias Cycle.Handle

  def hello(%Handle{resource: _resource}) do
    :world
  end

  defmodule Handle do
    defstruct resource: nil, reference: nil

    def wrap_resource(resource) do
      %__MODULE__{
        resource: resource,
        reference: make_ref()
      }
    end
  end
end

The error is:

== Compilation error in file lib/cycle.ex ==
** (CompileError) lib/cycle.ex:16: Cycle.Handle.__struct__/0 is undefined, cannot expand struct Cycle.Handle. Make sure the struct name is correct. If the struct name exists and is correct but it still cannot be found, you likely have cyclic module usage in your code
    lib/cycle.ex:16: (module)

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Qqwy

Qqwy

TypeCheck Core Team

The problem is that to compile Cycle, you need Cycle.Handle.
Cycle.Handle does not really depends on Cycle. However, since both are in the same file, it still ‘sort of’ depends on it.
And as a result, the compiler is unable to continue.

The solution is to move the nested module to a separate file.

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Nicd

Nicd

We don’t need to be that drastic in fact, we can just move the Handle definition higher up in the file. This will work:

defmodule Cycle do
  defmodule Handle do
    defstruct resource: nil, reference: nil

    def wrap_resource(resource) do
      %__MODULE__{
        resource: resource,
        reference: make_ref()
      }
    end
  end

  def hello(%Handle{resource: _resource}) do
    :world
  end
end

Note that the alias is also not needed.

I use this style quite often with my GenServers to define Options and State structs, like this example: lib/geo_therminator/pump_api/device/server.ex · 8fa72cbfa5b0402c46c53e13e5e994bf5a390f89 · Mikko Ahlroth / GeoTherminator · GitLab

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alishir

alishir OP

I thank all of you @Qqwy, @LostKobrakai and @Nicd.

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