Ecto: add_constraint

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#1

Hello,
add_constraint() that you can find in Ecto.2.2 ecto/lib/ecto/changeset.ex at the line 2235 should add a field constraints: to the changeset containing a list of constraints, right?

However I don’t see this field in the changeset when I apply Changeset.unique_constraint()

#Ecto.Changeset<action: nil, changes: %{}, errors: [],
 data: #App.CMS.Author<>, valid?: true>

but when I insert the changeset with an user_id already created, I got the correct ecto error message:

 #Ecto.Changeset<action: :insert, changes: %{user_id: 1},
  errors: [user_id: {"has already been taken", []}],
  data: #App.CMS.Author<>, valid?: false>}

Here the data field of the changeset (if it could help)

%App.CMS.Author{__meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:built, "authors">,
 bio: nil, genre: nil, id: nil, inserted_at: nil,
 pages: #Ecto.Association.NotLoaded<association :pages is not loaded>,
 role: nil, updated_at: nil,
 user: #Ecto.Association.NotLoaded<association :user is not loaded>, user_id: 1}

And the migration

  def change do
    create table(:authors) do
      add :bio, :text
      add :role, :string
      add :genre, :string
      add :user_id, references(:users, on_delete: :delete_all),
                    null: false

      timestamps()
    end

    create unique_index(:authors, [:user_id])
  end

HOW does it work?

#2

The field is there, it’s just not printed by inspect:

You could try inspecting changeset.constraints directly.

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