TheYuwana
Hey fellow Elixirians!
I am having trouble with joining and ordering, but with dynamic values. So basically I send a dynamic “asc” or “desc” and a dynamic field to the function and it needs to order according to whats given. The problem is, that you can’t really put dynamic values in the ecto queries.. Or maybe I am doing it wrong. But in any case, here is my code:
def with_ordering(query, filters, orderable_fields) do
if Map.has_key?(filters, "order") and filters["order"] in @order_types do
order_by =
if Map.has_key?(filters, "order_by") and filters["order_by"] in orderable_fields do
String.to_atom(filters["order_by"])
else
:inserted_at
end
from(
ue in query,
join: e in assoc(ue, :event)
order_by: ["#{filters["order"]}": ^order_by]
)
else
query
end
end
Next to not being able to do certain things in the query, how can I order_by “e” with the dynamic value?
I am trying to achieve the following results dynamically:
from(
ue in query,
join: e in assoc(ue, :event)
order_by: [asc: e.id]
)
Any tips, best practices, tricks and hacks are appreciated!
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LostKobrakai
Doesn’t
…, order_by: [{^direction, field(e, ^field)}]work?Also Liked
TheYuwana
@LostKobrakai Yes! This is it! Strange that this way of writing it is not in the docs for order_by. Would be great to note that, unless it’s written somewhere else I don’t know of.. But in any case, thanks!
Here is the final result and solution (according to my case):
LostKobrakai
This is probably what you’re looking for.
TheYuwana
@mbuhot Have tried that already, but there is no way I can acces the joined table field. Like this will not work: