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defmodule Customer do
defstruct name: "", company: ""
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defmodule BugReport do
defstruct owner: %Customer{}, det...
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I’m considering writing an integration with Salesforce. Salesforce has SObjects of various types like Case, Quote, Lead, CustomObject__c...
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Is there way to get the types from struct defined as bellow, and generate functions based on your types; like binary(), integer()?
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typedstruct do
@typedoc "A product."
field(:item_id, Str...
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Let’s suppose I have the following struct:
defmodule DataType do
defstruct ~w(a b c d e f)a
end
This struct is parsed from a...
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I have a struct representing a session request with only two fields, email and bytes. Basically the struct should either be passed around...
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I want to load a json (list of objects) into list of structs in a module attribute.
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[
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I just tried to create a struct without fields (because: why not?).
It’s not possible with defstruct, which insists on an argument.
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defmodule Customer do
defstruct name: "", company: ""
end
defmodule BugReport do
defstruct owner: %Customer{}, det...
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For example I have multiple currencies
dollar.ex
defmodule Multicurrency.Currency.Dollar do
@enforce_keys [:amount]
defstruct [:amo...
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I have a struct representing a session request with only two fields, email and bytes. Basically the struct should either be passed around...
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We ran into an issue today with structs that I found a bit surprising.
The essence of the issue is:
A struct is a Map under the hood
y...
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I am wondering how to document fields in defstruct properly. The convention seems to be to list fields in @moduledoc, but I find that cum...
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I just tried to create a struct without fields (because: why not?).
It’s not possible with defstruct, which insists on an argument.
Bes...
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I was just going through some stuff with some jr. devs about how structs work, and we were fooling around with what can be done with them...
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I have a custom struct and I want to define a type for it so I can run Dialyzer checks. However Dialyzer is complaining that I...
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I want to load a json (list of objects) into list of structs in a module attribute.
Seems like I need three modules for that.
json
[
...
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Hey everyone.
I was wondering about how I should initialize a struct where I have some values and some computed values.
For now I came ...
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Background
Let’s say I have a TypedStruct that has some common fields:
typedstruct do
@typedoc "A product."
field(:item_id, Str...
New
Is there way to get the types from struct defined as bellow, and generate functions based on your types; like binary(), integer()?
Can...
New
Hi all,
Let’s suppose I have the following struct:
defmodule DataType do
defstruct ~w(a b c d e f)a
end
This struct is parsed from a...
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