imetallica
Hi folks, do you know how can I force the autogeneration of ecto schema fields? I’m using Ecto Schema + MongoDB and I have the following schema:
embedded_schema do
field :identity, :string
field :password, :string, redact: true
field :password_confirmation, :string, redact: true
timestamps()
end
Then I call
def validate(attrs) when is_map(attrs) do
attrs
|> then(&changeset(%__MODULE__{}, &1))
|> apply_action(:insert)
end
But that does not generate the id nor the timestamp fields. Is there a way of doing it?
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brettbeatty
Those fields only get autogenerated/updated when you make a call to insert or update them right before the fields are dumped to be inserted/updated
It doesn’t look like there’s a public-facing function for it
https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/blob/v3.7.1/lib/ecto/repo/schema.ex#L946
It doesn’t look like it would be too difficult to write your own if you’re comfortable touching the internals