augnustin
Are there some Ecto gurus here?
I have this SQL function which works amazingly well (using Postgres 11.6)
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "unaccent";
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION slugify("value" TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT AS $$
-- removes accents (diacritic signs) from a given string --
WITH "unaccented" AS (
SELECT unaccent("value") AS "value"
),
-- lowercases the string
"lowercase" AS (
SELECT lower("value") AS "value"
FROM "unaccented"
),
-- remove single and double quotes
"removed_quotes" AS (
SELECT regexp_replace("value", '[''"]+', '', 'gi') AS "value"
FROM "lowercase"
),
-- replaces anything that's not a letter, number, hyphen('-'), or underscore('_') with a hyphen('-')
"hyphenated" AS (
SELECT regexp_replace("value", '[^a-z0-9\\-_]+', '-', 'gi') AS "value"
FROM "removed_quotes"
),
-- trims hyphens('-') if they exist on the head or tail of the string
"trimmed" AS (
SELECT regexp_replace(regexp_replace("value", '\-+$', ''), '^\-', '') AS "value"
FROM "hyphenated"
)
SELECT "value" FROM "trimmed";
$$ LANGUAGE SQL STRICT IMMUTABLE;
select * from user u
where slugify(u.administrative) = 'ile-de-france';
I have no idea how I could insert it in a ecto query, like:
User
|> where(slugify(:administrative, ^administrative))
|> order_by([f], f.city)
|> Repo.all()
Can someone help me with that? My searches for “Ecto custom SQL function” did not produce any result. ![]()
Using 100% custom SQL query would be a pain because I need to chain it with other query criteria afterwards.
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hauleth
You need to create that function in migration. You do not “tell” Postgres about function each time you want to use it.
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hauleth
Use
fragmentor check out myecto_function(which is fancy way to usefragment).hauleth
You do not need to use
Ecto,Adapters.SQL.query!/2in the migrations. More - it is dangerous to do so (for example what if you will have multiple repos?). Instead useexecute/{1,2}.