conradwt

conradwt

Programming Phoenix 1.4: Add category_id to video table (page 121)

On page 103, we perform:

mix phx.gen.html Multimedia Video videos user_id:references:users \
url:string title:string description:text

The above code adds a field, user_id, to the videos tables.

video.ex:

defmodule Rumbl.Multimedia.Video do
  use Ecto.Schema
  import Ecto.Changeset

  schema "videos" do
    field :description, :string
    field :title, :string
    field :url, :string
    field :user_id, :id

    belongs_to :user, Rumbl.Accounts.User
    belongs_to :category, Rumbl.Multimedia.Category

    timestamps()
  end

  @doc false
  def changeset(video, attrs) do
    video
    |> cast(attrs, [:url, :title, :description, :category_id])
    |> validate_required([:url, :title, :description])
  end
end

One page 121, when I attempt to perform:

mix ecto.gen.migration add_category_id_to_video

I’m getting the following error message:

Compiling 1 file (.ex)

== Compilation error in file lib/rumbl/multimedia/video.ex ==
** (ArgumentError) field/association :user_id is already set on schema
    (ecto 3.5.8) lib/ecto/schema.ex:2056: Ecto.Schema.put_struct_field/3
    (ecto 3.5.8) lib/ecto/schema.ex:1809: Ecto.Schema.define_field/4
    (ecto 3.5.8) lib/ecto/schema.ex:1896: Ecto.Schema.__belongs_to__/4
    lib/rumbl/multimedia/video.ex:11: (module)
    (stdlib 3.14) erl_eval.erl:680: :erl_eval.do_apply/6
    (elixir 1.11.3) lib/kernel/parallel_compiler.ex:314: anonymous fn/4 in Kernel.ParallelCompiler.spawn_workers/7

Marked As Solved

conradwt

conradwt

I was able to resolve the issue by removing user_id field from the videos schema. It would be great if the book was updated to show the error caused by having both
field :user_id, :id and belongs_to :user, Rumbl.Accounts.User and providing a resolution.

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