APB9785

APB9785

Creator of ECSx

How to properly use case statements in EEx (LiveView)

I have code in page_live.html.leex that looks like this:

<div>
  <%= case @nav do %>

    <% :post -> %>
      <div>Post view goes here</div>

    <% :main -> %>
      <div>Main view goes here</div>

    <% :board -> %>
      <div>Board view goes here</div>

  <% end %>
</div>

But I get a compilation error like this:
unexpected operator ->. If you want to define multiple clauses, the first expression must use ->. Syntax error before: ‘->’

What am I doing wrong? I searched the documentation and the forum but could not find any solution that would compile.

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benwilson512

benwilson512

Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Weird, we do exactly this a lot. And @kokolegorille the issue with content_tag is that it isn’t really usable with live view. You can’t for example do live_component inside of it and have it work correctly.

        <%= case @event do  %>
        <% %{type: :research_status_changed, data: status_change} -> %>
           stuff

        <% %{type: :labeling, data: %{comment: comment, user: user}} = event -> %>
             stuff
        <% end %>

This is pulled straight out of our codebase.

Can you provide a reproduceable example?

patrickdm

patrickdm

Just a guess but… did you try without this html comment?

kokolegorille

kokolegorille

You should use a helper for this… and try to remove any logic from template.

<%= display_nav(@nav) %>

and in page_view.ex

def display_nav(:post) do
  content_tag(:div) do
    "whatever"
  end
end
# etc.

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