bodhilogic

bodhilogic

I’m creating a new phoenix application (my first time) and I am seeing the following warning when I am using mix phoenix,gen.html to build my DB tables:

warning: found quoted keyword "test" but the quotes are not required. Note that keywords are always atoms, even when quoted, and quotes should only be used to introduce keywords with foreign characters in them mix.exs:57

I realize that the warning has nothing to do with the table building but wonder why Phoenix is generating its own ‘bugs’ (to me, a warning is a bug)? Is it because I am using mix phoenix,gen.html instead of mix phx,gen.html?

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idi527

idi527

:waving_hand:

Because the warning comes from elixir 1.7, supposedly (I haven’t seen this warning in elixir 1.6), and phoenix v1.3 was released before elixir 1.7.

The warning is about a keyword list in aliases in your mix.exs. If you check it, you’d see something like

defp aliases do
  [
    # ...
    "test":  #...
  ]
end

there.

The warning says that "test": can safely be replaced with test:.

NobbZ

NobbZ

If it is only possible to create with quotes, it shouldn’t create any warning. If it indeed creates a warning and is not possible without quotes, please file a bug at GitHub - elixir-lang/elixir: Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications · GitHub.

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For me :"$" doesn’t create a warning. I’m on Elixir 1.7.3 compiled and running on OTP 21.

bodhilogic

bodhilogic OP

I’ve removed the quotes from the atom but it still moans about the line… my guess is that it doesn’t like the other quoted “test” either, but I assume that is a command parameter that needs to be quoted?

  defp aliases do
    [
      "ecto.setup": ["ecto.create", "ecto.migrate", "run priv/repo/seeds.exs"],
      "ecto.reset": ["ecto.drop", "ecto.setup"],
      test: ["ecto.create --quiet", "ecto.migrate", "test"]
    ]
  end

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