Hello all,
I have the following question for a project I am developing.
I have two Schemas
schema "recipes" do
field :author, :string
field :cooking_time_lower_limit, :integer
field :cooking_time_upper_limit, :integer
field :cousine, :string
field :description, :string
end
schema "history_user_meals" do
field :meal_datetime, :utc_datetime
field :title, :string
field :user_id, :id
many_to_many :recipes, Recipe, join_through: RecipeUserMeal
timestamps()
end
Associated through a many to many relationship through the following schema
schema "history_recipe_user_meals" do
belongs_to :recipe, Recipe
belongs_to :user_meal, UserMeal
timestamps()
end
What I want to do is through me api endpoint create/update/delete UserMeals and associate them with pre-existing Recipes .
Ideally what I would like to have would be the following
valid_attrs = %{meal_datetime: ~U[2022-02-13 16:50:00Z], title: "some title", recipes: [%{recipe_id: recipe_0.id}, %{recipe_id: recipe.id}]}
assert {:ok, %UserMeal{} = user_meal} = History.create_user_meal(valid_attrs)
and then for example I could update with a different set of recipe ids which would get rid of the old associations only keep the new ones.
The way I have come to believe that’s the way to go is to handle that by composition using a Multi.
and I was just wandering if there is a better or more elegant way so that for example Ecto can take care of the
associating and de-associating automatically through a changeset .
Tanks !