unlogic

unlogic

I have an API that allows users to update and insert items with a single request. It works by supplying a list of JSON objects to an endpoint that will update items where the primary key exists, and insert new items where the primary key doesn’t exist. I have this working with:

def create_machines(attrs) do
    x =
      attrs
      |> Enum.map(fn x -> get_changeset(x) end)
      |> Enum.map(fn x -> Repo.insert_or_update(x) end)
  end

  defp get_changeset(params) do
    case Repo.get_by(Machine, name: params["name"]) do
      nil ->
        # Insert a new machine
        Machine.changeset(%Machine{}, params)

      machine ->
        # Update the machine data
        Machine.changeset(machine, params)
    end
  end

I get back a list of {ok: Machine} items. What I would like to have though is a list of updated machines and a list of new machines so that the returned JSON is something like

{
  "new": 
    [
      {"name": "machine1", ...}, {...}
    ], 
  "updated": 
    [
      {"name": "machine2", ....}, .{...} 
    ] 
}

I’m just not sure how best to approach generating this result properly. I’ve tried inserting or updating the changeset in the get_changeset function so that I can return something like {:update, machine} and {:create, machine} but then I got stuck with trying to convert

[{:update, machine1}, {:update, machine2}, {:created, machine3}] 

Into the format above for display.
Any advice on what the best approach is for this? thanks

Showing Posts 1 to 2

al2o3cr

al2o3cr

Enum.group_by will get you close to what you want:

iex(4)> [{:updated, "foo"}, {:updated, "bar"}, {:created, "baz"}, {:updated, "wat"}] |> Enum.group_by(fn {x, _} -> x end)
%{
  created: [created: "baz"],
  updated: [updated: "foo", updated: "bar", updated: "wat"]
}

This would still require some postprocessing of the individual lists to remove the {:created, _} wrappers around the internal elements.

Alternatively, you could use Enum.reduce with an initial state of %{new: [], updated: []} and compute what you want directly.

unlogic

unlogic OP

Thank you for your reply. I ended up going with the reduce as it seemed simpler

attrs
    |> Enum.reduce(%{new: [], updated: []}, fn x, acc ->
      case Repo.get_by(Machine, name: x["name"]) do
        nil ->
          # Insert a new machine
          {:ok, machine} = Repo.insert(Machine.changeset(%Machine{}, x))
          new_list = acc.new ++ [machine]
          %{new: new_list, updated: acc.updated}

        machine ->
          # Update the machine data
          {:ok, machine} = Repo.update(Machine.changeset(machine, x))
          updated_list = acc.updated ++ [machine]
          %{new: acc.new, updated: updated_list}
      end
    end)
— All posts loaded —

Where Next? Top

Trending in Questions Top

stjefim
Hello! Suppose you are building workflow (order / task / payment) processing system with the following requirements: Each workflow con...
New
water
I’m aware of 2 such projects, are there others? git: GitHub - team-alembic/realworld: A fullstack Phoenix LiveView application with back...
New
itzmidinesh
Hi all, I’m working on a Phoenix project where I need to make external HTTP requests and I’m trying to choose between Req and HTTPoison....
New
peck
Hi everyone. My team and I have been working on a fairly modest app based around video streaming and chat, but we’ve landed a customer t...
New
leoschweizer
Hi, we run different LLM models across a cluster, with each node loading a configurable subset. Model-specific queues let nodes consume ...
New
csmr
Hi all, I’m new here and would like to hear peoples views on my Elixir/Phoenix based game-engine! :smiley: Mutonex gamedesign was finish...
New
Stef-Verniers
Hello I’ve been coding in Elixir for almost two years now because of my current job where we implemented Elixir in our application. But ...
New

Other Trending Topics Top

dominicletz
Hey there, I haven’t seen a list of useful Elixir specific skills for the popular AI tools yet so I’m starting one here with my first. ...
New
mudasobwa
I fully migrated to my own harness from Anthropic/Gemini and I think it’s time to share it. Welcome DSH, the DeepSeek Harness, fully writ...
New
KristerV
Hey. Is there anyone here who creates agents in their apps? Not talking about using agents, but creating them. I’m finding it pretty diff...
New
jimsynz
Beam Bots (or just BB for short) is a framework for building fault-tolerant robotics applications in Elixir using familiar OTP patterns. ...
New
webofbits
With AI doing more of the implementation work, I’ve been wondering how much coding I should deliberately keep doing myself. My main conc...
#ai
New
OndrejValenta
(I just needed to vent somewhere and LinkedIn is full of hope, or hype, I’m not sure which exactly) AI dream has many faces, but general...
New

We're in Beta

About us Mission Statement

Options

Thread Display Mode




Thread Preview

Skip Thread Previews