bencoppock
Elixir Blog Post: Avoiding Atomic Angst in Elixir
I write about the frustration that can occur when dealing with string and atom-based keys in maps and how to (safely) translate string-based map keys to atoms:
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I would be looking at Ecto.Changeset.apply_action/2 to return either {:ok, struct} or {:error, changeset} which contains errors in the 2nd case. But it certainly depends on ecto (though not ecto_sql).
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I wasn’t writing this with Ecto in mind, but I usually do have Ecto in the mix, so I like that.
It also feels cleaner to use the return of the apply_action function (which can include validation errors) as opposed to directly relying on the changes field in the Changeset struct (even though I think the field is more or less considered “public”).
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