The best way to validate with parent association

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I faced with next question when validate related record. Imagine I have an event with timings and an attend with time specified by a user. My task is to validate that time is in timings of the event. So I have at least 3 options:

def create_attend(event, user, attrs) do
 event = event |> preload_somwehre_timings()
 attend = %Attend{user_id: user.id, event_id: event.id, event: event}
with ...
 Attend.changeset(attend, attrs)
 ....
end
# Somewhere in Attend module
def validate_time_is_in_bounds(changeset) do ... end

  1. Use almost the same approach but extract validations, adjust them for Multi and use. But in my case it is not required to use a transaction.

  2. Use extra layer module called AttendRequest and perform all the validations inside this module and then just to convert it before Repo.insert to regular attend struct. Does it make sense? Why I would like this option is that after create I don’t have preloaded fields.

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I would go for number 2. If your project grows that much you can easily transition to 3 later.