tnederlof

tnederlof

I have been playing around with the new Phoenix Auth generator (https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth) and have been learning a lot just reading through the design/code of the files generated so thank you to anyone who worked on it, impressive! My question is what are the best practices for working with the current user in a liveview .ex file.

When using live view I often want to display a list of items that belong to a certain user. In my item context I have a function set up to talk to ecto and list out items that are associated with a certain user_id.
Items.list_user_items(user) for example.

In order to get the user to feed the function I have found this following code works in the mount call.

def mount(_params, session, socket) do
    user = Accounts.get_user_by_session_token(session["user_token"])
    {:ok, assign(socket, :items, Items.list_user_items(user))}
 end

However in a function like handle_event that does not have the session, how would I properly pass the current user to the list_user_items function?

  def handle_event("delete", %{"id" => id}, socket) do
    item = Items.get_item!(id)
    {:ok, _} = Items.delete_item(item)
    {:noreply, assign(socket, :items, Items.list_user_items(**user**))}
  end

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idi527

idi527

:waving_hand:

You’d probably store the current_user in assigns in mount so that it’s accessible at socket.assigns.current_user in other callbacks like handle_event.

You can also create a helper like assign_mount in which you’d assign the user to the socket if you need it in more than one liveivew.

tnederlof

tnederlof OP

Ha that might have been the quickest answer, kind of embarrassed that didn’t occur to me.

Thank you so much for that link, that page is EXACTLY what I need!

unsek

unsek

For those who can’t find the page linked by @idi527, it got moved to its own page.

aegatlin

aegatlin

And here’s that same link without the version specified (so it defaults to “latest”)

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