In my phoenix project, I have a posts and tags schema linked through a join table
schema "posts" do
field :title, :string
field :body, :string
many_to_many :tags, App.Tag, join_through: App.PostsTags , on_replace: :delete
timestamps()
end?
How do i ensure that tags are present went using put_assoc?
def changeset(struct, params \\ %{}) do
struct
|> cast(params, [:title, :body])
|> put_assoc(:tags, parse_tags(params), required: true)
|> validate_required([:title, :body, :tags])
end
Both required: true on put_assoc and adding :tags to validate required do not work as I had imagined.
validate_length/3
can be used to check that the tags
list is non empty:
Post Schema:
defmodule MyApp.Blog.Post do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
alias MyApp.Blog.Post
schema "blog_posts" do
field :body, :string
field :title, :string
many_to_many :tags, MyApp.Blog.Tag, join_through: "blog_posts_tags"
timestamps()
end
@doc false
def changeset(%Post{} = post, attrs) do
post
|> cast(attrs, [:title, :body])
|> put_assoc(:tags, attrs[:tags])
|> validate_required([:title, :body])
|> validate_length(:tags, min: 1)
end
end
Tag Schema:
defmodule MyApp.Blog.Tag do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
alias MyApp.Blog.Tag
schema "blog_tags" do
field :name, :string
timestamps()
end
@doc false
def changeset(%Tag{} = tag, attrs) do
tag
|> cast(attrs, [:name])
|> validate_required([:name])
end
end
Validates successfully when tags
is present:
iex(16)> Post.changeset(%Post{}, %{title: "Ecto Many-to-Many", body: "Lots of words", tags: [%{name: "tech"}]})
#Ecto.Changeset<action: nil,
changes: %{body: "Lots of words",
tags: [#Ecto.Changeset<action: :insert, changes: %{name: "tech"}, errors: [],
data: #MyApp.Blog.Tag<>, valid?: true>], title: "Ecto Many-to-Many"},
errors: [], data: #MyApp.Blog.Post<>, valid?: true>
Produces an error when tags
is empty:
iex(17)> Post.changeset(%Post{}, %{title: "Ecto Many-to-Many", body: "Lots of words", tags: []})
#Ecto.Changeset<action: nil,
changes: %{body: "Lots of words", tags: [], title: "Ecto Many-to-Many"},
errors: [tags: {"should have at least %{count} item(s)",
[count: 1, validation: :length, min: 1]}], data: #MyApp.Blog.Post<>,
valid?: false>
Produces an error when tags
is nil:
iex(18)> Post.changeset(%Post{}, %{title: "Ecto Many-to-Many", body: "Lots of words"})
#Ecto.Changeset<action: nil,
changes: %{body: "Lots of words", title: "Ecto Many-to-Many"},
errors: [tags: {"is invalid", [type: {:array, :map}]}],
data: #MyApp.Blog.Post<>, valid?: false>