Schema-less Ecto Queries

This episode is all about using the repo we created last time and querying the database without schemas. The whole tutorial happens in IEx!

import Ecto.Query
import Ecto.Changeset
alias Ecto.Adapters.SQL
alias Linkly.Repo
alias Linkly.{Bookmark, Link, LinkTag, Tag, User}

links_to_insert =
  [
    [
      url: "https://alchemist.camp",
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [
      url: "https://reactor.am",
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [url: "https://indiehackers.com",
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ]
  ]

users_to_insert =
  [
    [
      username: "alice",
      email: "alice@example.com",
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [
      username: "bob",
      email: "bob@example.com",
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [
      username: "alchemist",
      email: "alchemist.camp@gmail.com",
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ]
  ]


bookmarks_to_insert =
  [
    [
      title: "A site with lots of Elixir tutorials",
      user_id: 1, link_id: 1,
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [
      title: "Alchemist Camp",
      user_id: 2, link_id: 1,
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [
      title: "Reactor Podcast",
      user_id: 2, link_id: 2,
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ],
    [
      title: "IH",
      user_id: 1, link_id: 3,
      inserted_at: DateTime.utc_now(),
      updated_at: DateTime.utc_now()
    ]
  ]

Repo.insert_all "users", users_to_insert, returning: [:id, :username]
Repo.insert_all "links", links_to_insert, returning: [:id, :url]
Repo.insert_all "bookmarks", bookmarks_to_insert

Repo.query("select * from users")

get_user2 = from u in "users", where: u.id == 2, select: u.username

get_bob = from u in "users", where: u.username == "bob", select: u.id

Repo.one(get_user2)
Ecto.Adapters.SQL.explain(Linkly.Repo, :all, get_bob) |> IO.puts
Repo.one(get_bob)
Repo.all(get_bob)

get_bookmarks = from "bookmarks", select: [:user_id, :link_id, :title]
Repo.all(get_bookmarks)

get_alice_bookmarks =
  from b in "bookmarks",
  where: b.user_id == 1,
  select: [:user_id, :link_id, :title]
Repo.all(get_alice_bookmarks)

get_alice_bookmarks2 =
  from u in "users",
  where: u.username == "alice",
  join: b in "bookmarks", on: b.user_id == u.id,
  join: l in "links", on: b.link_id == l.id,
  select: [u.username, l.url, b.title]
Repo.all(get_alice_bookmarks2)

# Use the username to trigger updates
name = "bob"
by_name = from u in "users", where: u.username == ^name
{1, _} = Repo.update_all(by_name, set: [email: "robert@example.com"])

# As well as for deletes
# {1, _} = Repo.delete_all post
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