Merging 2 nested maps

You need to use Map.merge/3 and provide a conflict handler that handles the conflicts recursively.

Awesome

solved with

 result = ma1 |> Map.merge(map2, fn _k, v1, v2 ->
      v1 |> Map.merge(v2)
    end)

ty so much @NobbZ !!

I was looking for information on maps that might have more nesting and couldn’t find anything. I came up with this and hope it helps others also searching for that:

def merge_nested(map1, map2) do
  Map.merge(map1, map2, &merge_nested/3)
end

def merge_nested(_k, %{} = v1, %{} = v2) do
  Map.merge(v1, v2, &merge_nested/3)
end
def merge_nested(_k, _v1, v2), do: v2

For example:

a = %{a: %{b: %{c: 1}}}
b = %{a: %{b: %{d: 2}}}

merge_nested(a, b)
#> %{a: %{b: %{c: 1, d: 2}}}

You may also be interested in deep_merge:

https://github.com/PragTob/deep_merge

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