maz
I have Users and Orgs. Users can belong to multiple Orgs and Orgs can have many users:
defmodule Elijah.Schema.User do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
use Waffle.Ecto.Schema
...
schema "users" do
field :email, :string
field :username, :string
field :name, :string
field :phone_number, :string
field :confirmed_at, :naive_datetime
field :is_admin, :boolean
field :avatar, Elijah.AvatarUploader.Type
many_to_many :orgs, Elijah.Schema.Org, join_through: "orgs_users", on_replace: :delete
timestamps()
end
...
Org:
defmodule Elijah.Schema.Org do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
alias Elijah.Type.OrgHashId
...
schema "orgs" do
field :basename, :string
field :shortname, :string
field :uuid, Ecto.UUID
field :hash_id, :string
has_many :channels, Elijah.Schema.Channel
has_many :playlists, Elijah.Schema.Playlist
many_to_many :users, Elijah.Schema.User, join_through: "orgs_users", on_replace: :delete
timestamps(type: :utc_datetime)
# timestamps()
end
...
OrgsUsers:
defmodule Elijah.Schema.OrgsUsers do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
schema "orgs_users" do
field :org_id, :integer
field :user_id, :integer
end
@doc false
def changeset(orgs_users, attrs) do
orgs_users
|> cast(attrs, [:user_id, :org_id])
|> validate_required([:user_id, :resource_id])
end
end
I made a function called Accounts.add_user() which is meant to add a user to an org and update the orgs_users table. However what is happening is that the second association will clobber the first one:
Accounts.add_user():
def add_user(%{"org_id" => org_id, "user_id" => user_id}) do
org = Repo.get_by!(Org, id: org_id)
user = Repo.get_by!(User, id: user_id)
org
|> Repo.preload(:users)
|> Ecto.Changeset.change()
|> Ecto.Changeset.put_assoc(:users, [user])
|> Repo.update!
end
Here is the log where I add two users:
SELECT * from orgs_users:
elijah_dev=# select * from orgs_users;
id | org_id | user_id
----+--------+---------
2 | 1 | 2
(1 row)
Any idea why add_user() does not append? I also tried:
Ecto.Changeset.put_assoc(:users, org.users ++ user)
but resulted in this error:
** (ArgumentError) argument error
:erlang.++(#Ecto.Association.NotLoaded<association :users is not loaded>, #Elijah.Schema.User<__meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:loaded, "users">, avatar: nil, confirmed_at: nil, email: "amos@elijah.app", id: 1, inserted_at: ~N[2020-10-19 21:00:31], is_admin: nil, name: "Amos", orgs: #Ecto.Association.NotLoaded<association :orgs is not loaded>, phone_number: nil, updated_at: ~N[2020-10-19 21:00:31], username: "amos", ...>)
(faithful_word 0.1.0) lib/faithful_word/accounts.ex:93: Elijah.Accounts.add_user/1
(first insert)
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fuelen
Hello.
Yes, this behaviour is described in documentation to
Ecto.Changeset.put_assoc/4:The last error can be fixed by preloading
usersassoc toorg:maz
Thanks for showing me those docs, missed the example part. I changed
|> Ecto.Changeset.put_assoc(:users, [user])so
add_user()now reads like:And I get an invalid changeset:
Why? I do a preload:
maz
I finally got it working. I had to assign the preloaded org to an intermediate value:
Not sure why it did not work with pipe operator.