Changeset » Introduction
Changesets are an advanced abstraction for making changes in your database. They work on top of commands, and provide additional data mapping functionality and have support for associating data.
Built-in changesets support all core command types, you can also define custom changeset classes and connect them to custom commands.
Working with changesets
You can get a changeset object via Relation#changeset interface. A changeset object wraps input data, and may optionally convert it into a representation that's compatible with your database schema.
Assuming you have a users relation available:
:create
users.changeset(:create, name: "Jane").commit
=> {:id=>1, :name=>"Jane"}
:update
users.by_pk(4).changeset(:update, name: "Jane Doe").commit
=> {:id=>4, :name=>"Jane Doe"}
Checking diffs
Update changesets check the difference between the original tuple and new data. If there's no diff, an update changeset will not execute its command.
:delete
users.by_pk(4).changeset(:delete).commit
=> {:id=>4, :name=>"Jane Doe"}
users.by_pk(4).changeset(:delete).commit
# => nil
In the examples above, we used Relation#by_pk method, this is a built-in method which restricts a relation by its primary key; however, you can use any method that's available, including native adapter query methods.