chungwong
Given a schema structure:
schema "sales_item" do
field :id
field :product_id
field :parent_id
belongs_to :parent, SalesItem, foreign_key: :parent_id
has_many :children, SalesItem, foreign_key: :parent_id
end
A product can have many children recursively, i.e. each child can have many children.
And input data as follow
children = [
{
"product_id": 12197,
"children": [
{
"product_id": 8637,
"children": [...]
},
{
"product_id": 11224,
"children": [...]
},
{
"product_id": 3561
}
]
},
{
"product_id": 12200,
"children": [
{
"product_id": 12129,
"children": [
{
"product_id": 11586,
"children": [...]
},
{
"product_id": 11377
},
{
"product_id": 10682
}
]
}
]
}
]
If I have to insert this whole linked data in one go into database,
SalesItem.changeset(%SalesItem{}, %{
product_id: 1,
children: children,
})
|> Ecto.Changeset.cast_assoc(:children)
What happened was only the first level of children got inserted, the nested children were ignored completely.
Does cast_assoc support nested associations?
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ggerico
After having read part of Programming Ecto (Pragmatic Bookshelf), I think that you should dig into Transactions and Multi.
Even if they haven’t explicitly said that
cast_assocdoesn’t support nested associations.Last Post!
ggerico
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Children.changeset/2invoked bySalesItem.changeset/2has to invoke in turnsSalesItem.changeset/2if the children list of%SalesItemis not empty.You can use the pattern
[_ | _]to match non-empty lists. MADNESScredit to Dogbert pattern match a non empty list