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Capture Errors

Capture Errors

Learn how to capture errors in Ecto.

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The last step of the process is sending our changeset to Repo and seeing what happens. This section will see how changesets help us track errors and report them to the user.

Typical changeset workflow

When we look back at our example from the beginning of the chapter, we can see the entire changeset workflow, as follows.

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params = %{name: "Gene Harris"} 
changeset =
  %Artist{}\
  |> cast(params, [:name])\
  |> validate_required([:name])
case Repo.insert(changeset) do
  {:ok, artist} -> IO.puts("Record for #{artist.name} was created.") 
  {:error, changeset} -> IO.inspect(changeset.errors)
end

This is how we handle inserting a new record. If we were updating an existing record, we would pass the changeset into Repo.update. In either case, developers typically follow the pattern shown here: ...