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Create Embedded Schemas

Create Embedded Schemas

Learn how to create embedded schemas.

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Create new schemas

To try out embeds, we’ll move away slightly from the data model we’ve worked with so far and create a new Album schema. This one will use embeds, rather than associations, to handle the child records for Artist and Track. The relationships will still be the same—that is, albums will have one artist and have many tracks—but we’ll model these relationships using embeds.

We’ll create new schemas with different names to keep this approach distinct in our codebase. Let’s start with tracks.

We define embeds similarly to normal schemas, but we don’t provide a name for the source table since they belong to no particular table.

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defmodule MusicDB.TrackEmbed do 
  import Ecto.Changeset
  use Ecto.Schema
  embedded_schema do 
    field(:title, :string) 
    field(:duration, :integer)
  end 
end

Default type for the primary key

Another difference is that the default type for the primary key is binary_id ...