dogweather
Dbg() in a `with` sequence?
dbg() is one of my favorite Elixir features: placing it somewhere in a pipe of function calls outputs all the intermediate results. It’s great for debugging parsing code. Like this:
meta_date =
document
|> Floki.find("meta[property='article:published_time']")
|> Floki.attribute("content")
|> List.first()
|> parse_date_text()
|> dbg()
Well, now I’m starting to use with instead of |>. Is it possible to get that dbg() behavior? I haven’t figured it out. For example:
@spec parse_human_date_string(binary) :: nil | Date.t
def parse_human_date_string(text) when is_binary(text) do
with [_, raw_month, raw_day, year] <- Regex.run(~r/^(.+) (.+), (\d\d\d\d)$/, text),
day <- String.pad_leading(raw_day, 2, "0"),
month_num <- Integer.to_string(Enum.find_index(@months, &(&1 == raw_month)) + 1),
month <- String.pad_leading(month_num, 2, "0"),
{:ok, date} <- Date.from_iso8601("#{year}-#{month}-#{day}"),
dbg() do ### THIS IS WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO ###
date
else
_ -> nil
end
end
Then I’d get the results of each “line” of the with.
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dogweather
Yep, just make dbg() one of the clauses. I’ll paste here the actual running code and the output. I’m pretty sure it’s the same as above:
@spec parse_human_date_string(binary) :: Date.t | nil
def parse_human_date_string(text) when is_binary(text) do
with [_, raw_month, raw_day, year] <- Regex.run(~r/^(.+) (.+), (\d\d\d\d)$/, text),
day <- String.pad_leading(raw_day, 2, "0"),
month_num <- Integer.to_string(Enum.find_index(@months, &(&1 == raw_month)) + 1),
month <- String.pad_leading(month_num, 2, "0"),
{:ok, date} <- Date.from_iso8601("#{year}-#{month}-#{day}"),
dbg() do
date
else
_ -> nil
end
end
~/s/P/oregon-revised-statutes-crawler ❯❯❯ mix test refactor ✱
Compiling 1 file (.ex)
Generated crawlers app
................................................................................................................................[lib/news/date_modified.ex:99: News.DateModified.parse_human_date_string/1]
binding() #=> [
date: ~D[2023-12-05],
day: "05",
month: "12",
month_num: "12",
raw_day: "5",
raw_month: "December",
text: "December 5, 2023",
year: "2023"
]
..........[lib/news/date_modified.ex:99: News.DateModified.parse_human_date_string/1]
binding() #=> [
date: ~D[1997-05-26],
day: "26",
month: "05",
month_num: "5",
raw_day: "26",
raw_month: "May",
text: "May 26, 1997",
year: "1997"
]
..[lib/news/date_modified.ex:99: News.DateModified.parse_human_date_string/1]
binding() #=> [
date: ~D[2020-01-01],
day: "01",
month: "01",
month_num: "1",
raw_day: "1",
raw_month: "January",
text: "January 1, 2020",
year: "2020"
]
.......
Finished in 0.9 seconds (0.4s async, 0.5s sync)
17 doctests, 130 tests, 0 failures
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dogweather
Never mind—it freakin’ works. Amazing.
dogweather
BTW, @josevalim this is mind-blowingly good.
sodapopcan
OIC, dbg() without explicit args (or pipe) just outputs the current binding which I never realized before.
For example:
if true do
a = 1
dbg()
end
binding() #=> [a: 1]
Cool!
PS, I wasn’t able to get it to work before because I was being dumb and trying this: with 1 <- 1, 2 <- 2, dbg(), do: "hi" so of course I got binding() #=> [] ![]()








