Apologies if this question has been posted before, but I couldn’t find anything.
Let’s say I have two physical tables with 11 fields each. They share the same nine fields, but differ in the 10th and 11th fields. I have a separate schema for each table.
Is there any way to specify a “master” struct, such that the master struct contains the nine common fields, as well as a field for a struct that contains the table specific fields? Is there a way to populate such a struct via Ecto? I’d guess not, but I wanted to make sure.
Yes, I could do that and that would solve part of my problem regarding code reuse.
Ideally, I would like to have a master struct so that I can match against it in function args and have a guarantee that the argument would indeed have all 9 shared fields. I suppose my question is transformable to: How can I ensure that a given struct passed as an argument has a given set of fields?
EDIT: I think compostability is the general solution, but it does not seem to work with structs populated via Ecto schemas
Other option would be to put those 9 fields they share on an embedded schema and use embeds_one/3 with cast_embed/3. This way you can reuse their definition and validations, but still don’t need to create a table just for them. Of course in this case you would have to change the table structure, if that’s not an option nevermind.
