fireproofsocks

fireproofsocks

Collecting and formatting changeset errors?

I’m using changesets to validate various API submissions and I’m wondering if someone has come up with an easy way to format the errors? It’s a lot of busy work to traverse the changeset errors and assemble a meaningful error message, so I thought I’d ask the forum people to see if someone had already solved that particular problem (yes, I’m fishing). Thank you!

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fireproofsocks

fireproofsocks

Here’s what I have… useful for formatting the changeset errors into a string for logging etc.

def changeset_error_to_string(changeset) do
  Ecto.Changeset.traverse_errors(changeset, fn {msg, opts} ->
    Enum.reduce(opts, msg, fn {key, value}, acc ->
      String.replace(acc, "%{#{key}}", to_string(value))
    end)
  end)
  |> Enum.reduce("", fn {k, v}, acc ->
    joined_errors = Enum.join(v, "; ")
    "#{acc}#{k}: #{joined_errors}\n"
  end)
end

It’ll return a string like

"password: Not enough special characters (only 0 instead of at least 1); Not enough numbers characters (only 0 instead of at least 1); Not enough upper_case characters (only 0 instead of at least 1)\n"

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vetikent

vetikent

I had to add a case for when the traversed error value came as an error:

defp _to_string(val) when is_list(val) do
    Enum.join(val, ",")
  end
  defp _to_string(val), do: to_string(val)

Full implementation:

defmodule Yourapp.Ecto.Errors do

  def mapper(%Ecto.Changeset{} = changeset) do
    IO.inspect(changeset)
    Ecto.Changeset.traverse_errors(changeset, fn {msg, opts} ->
      Enum.reduce(opts, msg, fn {key, value}, acc ->
        String.replace(acc, "%{#{key}}", _to_string(value))
      end)
    end)
    |> Enum.reduce("", fn {k, v}, acc ->
      joined_errors = Enum.join(v, "; ")
      "#{acc} #{k}: #{joined_errors}"
    end)
  end
  def mapper(changeset), do: changeset

  defp _to_string(val) when is_list(val) do
    Enum.join(val, ",")
  end
  defp _to_string(val), do: to_string(val)
end

mikemccall

mikemccall

traverse_errors/2 might help out

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