lorenzomar

lorenzomar

Hi there!
I’m in the situation where I’m receiving a struct which is also an Ecto Schema (wich embedded_one/many other schemas). To be more precise it is a Commanded command.
Sometimes I may not be in control of how the command was built before dispatching it so I would implement a middleware that validate the command before and pass to the next layer only if everything is ok.

Passing the command to the changeset function doesn’t work since it is not a map (itself or the embedded structs).

Currently I implemented a changeset function like this:

defmodule MySchema do
   ....

   def changeset(%__MODULE__{} = schema, %__MODULE__{} = attrs) do
      changeset(schema, Map.from_struct(attrs))
   end

   def changeset(%__MODULE__{} = schema, attrs) do
      # all changeset stuff: cast, validate, ...
   end
end

All the embedded schemas implement a changeset like that. In this way it recursively transform a struct in a map before executing real changeset functionalities.

It works, but it seems like a lot of work.

Any suggestion? Do you know any better approach? maybe can I approach things differently?

Any help is really welcome.

Thanks!

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LostKobrakai

LostKobrakai

What you’re running into is twofold.

Ecto.Changeset.cast doesn’t allow non map inputs. That’s by design because cast is meant to deal with external input – as in having uncontrolled values, unknown types of value represenation and such. Stuff like json or form input. When you got a struct that’s very unlikely external input like that anymore. There are other API more suited for the job like put_change/3 or change/2.

The other part is that changeset validations only validate changes, not existing values. You can force values to become changes with e.g. force_change/3 or some other APIs can also optionally force changes on a changeset.

Generally I’d however wonder why you’re validating things in the middle of handling a command and not at creation. A command should likely adhere to a contract shared between parties to be enforced at creation time.

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