Palindrome

Palindrome

Hi there,

I’ve got the following function to read from a CSV file and insert the data into the address table of my database.

  def process_csv_file(%User{type: "customer"} = customer, file) do
    File.stream!(file)
    |> Stream.map(& &1)
    |> CSV.decode(separator: ?;, headers: false)
    |> Stream.map(fn x ->
      case x do
        {:ok, [name, address, zip_code, city, country]} ->
          create_address(customer, %{
            name: name,
            address_one: address,
            zip_code: zip_code,
            city: city,
            country: country
          })

        _ ->
          IO.puts("Something went wrong...")
      end
    end)
    |> Stream.run()
  end

If I try to run it, it returns :ok and nothing happens.

But if I use Enum instead of Stream, everything runs fine. What am I doing wrong here? :slight_smile:

(In this case it isn’t very important, it’s just a small file. But I’m hoping to learn something from this.)

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kelvinst

kelvinst

Taking the answer from the docs for Stream.run/1:

This is useful when a stream needs to be run, for side effects, and there is no interest in its return result.

Examples

Open up a file, replace all # by % and stream to another file without loading the whole file in memory:

File.stream!("/path/to/file")
|> Stream.map(&String.replace(&1, "#", "%"))
|> Stream.into(File.stream!("/path/to/other/file"))
|> Stream.run()

One might prefer Stream.run over Enum.map when the expected result of the stream iterations is the side effect itself, so it does not have to return any value, and in that case, it would just discard the iteration results, which might be more efficient for most cases (like the example the docs gave).

That’s not the case for your function there, as far as I understand, as you want to process a CSV and return a list of addresses from it.

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kelvinst

kelvinst

I see, so you don’t want the actual list of new addresses then? AFAIK it should work with Stream.run() then. When you say “nothing happens” you mean the addresses are not being created?

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