Plug call results in an argument error

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https://hexdocs.pm/plug/Plug.html#moduledoc

The result returned by init/1 is passed as second argument to call/2 . Note that init/1 may be called during compilation and as such it must not return pids, ports or values that are not specific to the runtime.

So what is passed in the opts of call/2 isn’t the repo.

From page 89 of Programming Phoenix 1.4
https://media.pragprog.com/titles/phoenix14/code/authentication/listings/rumbl/lib/rumbl_web/controllers/auth.ex

Note how _opts argument is ignored and the repo is accessed via the Accounts context.

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The error message is based on this:

:erlang.apply({:ok, Rumbl.Repo}, :get, [])

So what happened:

  def init(opts) do
    Keyword.fetch(opts, :repo)
  end

Keyword.fetch/2 returns a tuple that was then passed as the opts parameter. But even

  def init(opts) do
    {:ok, repo} = Keyword.fetch(opts, :repo)
    repo
  end

Would just return the Rumbl.Repo atom value that is simply the name of the module.

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