yeroc
Hello!
Trying to fully wrap my head around Ecto when updating a struct value. I know this is super basic and simple; forgive my naivete ![]()
Generated a basic Phoenix / Elixir CRUD app to play with and am testing out the generated Phoenix functions in IEx. The one that I can’t seem to wrap my head around is update. Here is the function-
def update_post(%Post{} = post, attrs) do
post
|> Post.changeset(attrs)
|> Repo.update()
end
Here is the schema changeset
def changeset(post, attrs) do
post
|> cast(attrs, [:title, :body])
|> validate_required([:title, :body])
end
Let’s say I have this existing post-
%BlogApp.Posts.Post{
__meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:loaded, "posts">,
body: "My very first Post!",
id: 1,
inserted_at: ~N[2022-09-21 03:21:59],
title: "A great post",
updated_at: ~N[2022-09-21 03:21:59]
}
How can this post be updated in IEx using the existing Phoenix generated function above? I don’t quite understand how to select and match on the struct entry for the first value to feed to update_post/2
For example, I’m trying-
iex(9)> post = %{body: "My very first Post!", title: "A great post"}
iex(10)> Posts.update_post(post, %{body: "updated", title: "updated"})
...(11)>
** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in BlogApp.Posts.update_post/2
The following arguments were given to BlogApp.Posts.update_post/2:
# 1
%{body: "My very first Post!", title: "A great post"}
# 2
%{body: "updated", title: "updated"}
Attempted function clauses (showing 1 out of 1):
def update_post(%BlogApp.Posts.Post{} = post, attrs)
(blog_app 0.1.0) lib/blog_app/posts.ex:70: BlogApp.Posts.update_post/2
I’m just not grasping how to match the function clause!
Thanks for any help! ![]()
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experimentix
I’m still learning elixir and phoenix but it seems you are passing a map instead of a struct Post to update post
changing
to
will match in
yeroc
Great catch!
Also realized after the fact I wasn’t supplying the primary key (
id) for the existing post.