Hey guys, new elixir/phoenix user here. I’m making a food recipe site to learn the language and framework and things have been going alright until I got to this point. I’ve managed to get it working how I want but not in a clean way.
So my current flow is user wants to create a recipe. So they make a recipe “draft” that isn’t publicly published and can keep around for a while. Then when they submit that it turns into a regular recipe. So create -> recipe draft -> submit -> recipe.
I though I could simply use the same schema but I didn’t know how to use a different table with it. I learned I could use Repo.put_meta(source: “table_name”) when I was inserting, but couldn’t find anything as simple when retrieving. So I made a separate identical schema with a different table source, but it was unmanageable converting between the two (trying to add a RecipeDraft to the Recipe table and vice versa).
So I went back to the single schema and figured out a way to get the data from the table I wanted in a pretty verbose way. Like this:
def get_recipe!(id, source \\ "recipes"), do:
Repo.one!(from r in source, where: r.id == ^id, select: %Recipe{id: r.id, name: r.name, description: r.description,
ingredients: r.ingredients, directions: r.directions, notes: r.notes, nutrition_facts: r.nutrition_facts,
tags: r.tags, cook_time: r.cook_time, prep_time: r.prep_time, servings: r.servings, images: r.images, user_id: r.user_id,
inserted_at: r.inserted_at, updated_at: r.updated_at})
|> Repo.preload(:user)
|> Repo.preload(:reviews)
I’m using postgreSQL (newish to that too) so I can’t do select: r because it gives me an error that I can’t select all fields without a schema.
So my actual question is… is there an easy way to share one schema with two tables? Or at least an easier/cleaner way to pull a schema from a different table other than the source of the schema?
Thanks.
