NatassiaTavares
I’m testing the product_service for my API and I’m getting this error:
** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in Ecto.Changeset.cast/4
when attempting to create or update an object.
Here’s the code:
product_service_test.exs
defmodule Warehouse.ProductServiceTest do
use ExUnit.Case, async: true
import Ecto.Query, warn: false
import Morphix
alias Warehouse.ProductService
alias Warehouse.Repo
setup do
:ok = Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Sandbox.checkout(Warehouse.Repo)
end
describe " ProductService.create_or_update_product " do
test 'creates a product' do
{:ok, atomized_product} = Morphix.atomorphiform(product())
ProductService.create_or_update_product(atomized_product)
assert Repo.one(from p in "products", select: count(p.id)) == 1
end
test 'updates a product' do
{:ok, product_created} = ProductService.create_or_update_product(product())
product_changed = Map.replace!(product(), :title, "new title")
{:ok, product_updated} = ProductService.create_or_update_product(product_changed)
assert product_updated.id == product_created.id
assert product_updated.title == "new title"
end
end
end
product_service.ex
defmodule Warehouse.ProductService do
alias Warehouse.ProductRepo
alias Warehouse.Product
def list_products(store_id) do
ProductRepo.list_products(store_id)
end
def get_product!(id) do
ProductRepo.get_product!(id)
end
def create_product(attrs \\ %{}) do
ProductRepo.create_product(attrs)
end
def get_product_by_sku(sku, store_id) do
ProductRepo.get_product_by_sku(sku, store_id)
end
def create_or_update_product(product_to_update \\ %{}) do
product = get_product_by_external_code(product_to_update)
if product != nil do
valid_product_to_update = prepare_changeset(product_to_update)
ProductRepo.update_product(product, valid_product_to_update)
else
ProductRepo.create_product(product_to_update)
end
end
defp prepare_changeset(new_product) do
new_product
|> Map.delete(:sku)
|> Map.delete(:gtin)
end
end
product_repo.ex
defmodule Warehouse.ProductRepo do
import Ecto.Query, warn: false
alias Warehouse.Repo
alias Warehouse.Product
def list_products(store_id) do
Repo.all from p in Product, preload: [:images, :videos, :listings], where: p.store_id == ^store_id
end
def get_product!(id) do
Repo.get!(Product, id)
|> Repo.preload([:images, :videos, :provider])
end
def create_product(attrs \\ %{}) do
%Product{}
|> Product.changeset(attrs)
|> Repo.insert()
end
def update_product(product, new_product) do
product
|> Product.changeset(new_product)
|> Repo.update()
end
end
product.ex
defmodule Warehouse.Product do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
import EctoEnum
defenum ConditionEnum, :condition, [:new, :used, :refurbished]
@serializables [:id, :store_id, :title, :condition, :price, :promotional_price, :available_quantity,
:sku, :currency, :gtin, :short_description, :description, :height,
:lenght, :width, :weight, :condition, :provider_id]
@derive { Jason.Encoder, only: Enum.concat(@serializables, [:images, :listings]) }
schema "products" do
timestamps()
belongs_to :provider, Warehouse.Provider
has_many :images, Warehouse.Image, on_replace: :delete
has_many :videos, Warehouse.Video, on_replace: :delete
has_many :listings, Warehouse.Listing, on_replace: :delete
field :store_id, :integer
field :title, :string
field :price, :decimal
field :promotional_price, :decimal
field :available_quantity, :integer
field :sku, :string
field :currency, :string
field :gtin, :string
field :short_description, :string
field :description, :string
field :height, :integer
field :lenght, :integer
field :width, :integer
field :weight, :integer
field :condition, :string
end
@doc false
def changeset(product, attrs \\ %{}) do
product
|> cast(attrs, @serializables)
|> cast_assoc(:images)
|> cast_assoc(:videos)
|> cast_assoc(:listings)
|> validate_required([:store_id])
end
end
The full error message:
1) test ProductService.create_or_update_product updates a product (Warehouse.ProductServiceTest)
test/warehouse/product_service_test.exs:19
** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in Ecto.Changeset.cast/4
The following arguments were given to Ecto.Changeset.cast/4:
# 1
%{"available_quantity" => 2, "condition" => "new", "currency" => "BRL", "description" => "description", "gtin" => "s", "height" => 2, "images" => [%{"url" => "some_url"}], "lenght" => 2, "listings" => [%{"external_code" => "some_code", "sales_channel_id" => 1}], "price" => 2.3, "short_description" => "a", "sku" => "somesku", "store_id" => 3, "title" => "some title", "unity" => "KG", "videos" => [%{"url" => "some_url"}], "width" => 2}
# 2
%{"available_quantity" => 2, "condition" => "new", "currency" => "BRL", "description" => "description", "gtin" => "s", "height" => 2, "images" => [%{"url" => "some_url"}], "lenght" => 2, "listings" => [%{"external_code" => "some_code", "sales_channel_id" => 1}], "price" => 2.3, "short_description" => "a", "sku" => "somesku", "store_id" => 3, "title" => "some title", "unity" => "KG", "videos" => [%{"url" => "some_url"}], "width" => 2}
# 3
[:id, :store_id, :title, :condition, :price, :promotional_price, :available_quantity, :sku, :currency, :gtin, :short_description, :description, :height, :lenght, :width, :weight, :condition, :provider_id]
# 4
[]
Attempted function clauses (showing 5 out of 5):
def cast(_data, %{__struct__: _} = params, _permitted, _opts)
def cast({data, types}, params, permitted, opts) when is_map(data)
def cast(%Ecto.Changeset{types: nil}, _params, _permitted, _opts)
def cast(%Ecto.Changeset{changes: changes, data: data, types: types, empty_values: empty_values} = changeset, params, permitted, opts)
def cast(%{__struct__: module} = data, params, permitted, opts)
code: {:ok, product_created} = ProductService.create_or_update_product(product())
stacktrace:
(ecto) lib/ecto/changeset.ex:463: Ecto.Changeset.cast/4
(warehouse) lib/warehouse/models/product.ex:43: Warehouse.Product.changeset/2
(warehouse) lib/warehouse/repositories/product_repo.ex:24: Warehouse.ProductRepo.update_product/2
test/warehouse/product_service_test.exs:20: (test)
Seems like Elixir is matching a Ecto.Changeset.cast/3 into a Ecto.Changeset.cast/4 adding an empty array as the 4th parameter. This is happening in every test with ecto, is working fine in the API, I have no idea what is causing this.
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idi527
I think the problem is with the first argument, actually. It should probably be a product struct instead of plain map in your case.
What does
get_product_by_external_code/1return? SinceProductRepo.update_product(product, valid_product_to_update)since to be getting two maps according to the stacktrace?