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General purpose tools for working with Ash and Ash resources.

Input for a custom action

An Api allows you to interact with your resources, and holds non-resource-specific configuration.

A resource reference in an api

Introspection tools for Ash.Api

Generate Mermaid diagrams from a specified API.

Generate a Livebook from a specified API.

Ensures that all resources for a given registry are not embeds.

Ensures that all resources for a given api are compiled.

Ensures that all related resources are included in an API.

The interface for an ash authorizer

The return value for bulk actions.

The behaviour for a calculation module

Changesets are used to create and update data in Ash.

Tools for introspecting managed relationships.

Represents a case insensitive string

Used to define the functions of a code interface for a resource.

The interface for being an ash data layer.

An ETS (Erlang Term Storage) backed Ash Datalayer, for testing and lightweight usage.

Introspection helpers for the Ets data layer

An Mnesia backed Ash Datalayer.

Introspection helpers for Ash.DataLayer.Mnesia

A data layer that returns structs.

Ensures that all identities have a pre_check_with configured, or raises.

Tools and utilities used by Ash to manage and conform errors

Used when an invalid value is provided for an action argument

Used when options validation fails for an internal function call

Used when an invalid value is provided for an action argument

Used when an invalid value is provided for an attribute change

Used when a change is provided that covers multiple attributes/relationships

Used when an invalid value is provided for a relationship change

Used when a change is provided for an attribute that does not exist

Used when a change is provided for an relationship that does not exist

Used when an attribute or relationship is required

Used when a stale record is attempted to be updated or deleted

Used when the Ash engine has an internal error

Tooling for creating an Ash exception

Used when a flow has been halted for some reason

Used when authorization for an action fails

Used when an api that has require_actor? true is provided no actor

Used when a create action would be filtered

Raised in cases where access to a specific field was prevented

Used when unreachable code/conditions are reached in the framework

Raised when policy authorization for an action fails

Used when an unknown/generic framework error occurs

Used when unreachable code/conditions are reached in the framework

Used when unreachable code/conditions are reached in the framework

Used when a callback returns an invalid type

Used when the sycnrhonous engine cannot proceed

The top level invalid error

Used when atomics for the given action type are not not supported by the data layer, but one is used.

Used when multiple requests with the same path are passed to the internal engine

Used when a request expresses a dependency on another request that doesn't exist

Used when an invalid primary key is given to an Api's get

Used when no limit is provided, pagination is required, and no default page size is configured

Used when multiple requests with the same path are passed to the internal engine

Used when an identity name is used that does not reference identity on the resource

Used when an action name is provided that doesn't exist

Used when an action name is provided that doesn't exist

Used when a resource or alias is provided that doesn't exist

Used when Api.stream is used with an action that does not support keyset pagination

Used when page option is passed but pagination is not enabled.

Used when page: false is provided but pagination is required

Used when a resource or alias is provided that cannot be used with the given api

Used when a tenant is not specified

Used when a request to the api times out.

Used when timeouts are not supported by the data layer, but one is set

Used when a given resource is unavailable.

Used when an invalid query is provided in a load

Used when attempting to load a relationship that does not exist

Used when a value is provided for a keyset that cannot be Base64 decoded.

Used when the data_layer does not support aggregates, or filtering/sorting them

Used when the data_layer does not support calculations, or filtering/sorting them

Used when an invalid value is provided for an action argument

Used when an invalid value is provided for a calculation argument

Used when an invalid expression is used in a filter

Used when an invalid reference is used in a filter

Used when an invalid value is provided for a filter

Used when an invalid limit is provided

Used when an invalid load is provided

Used when an invalid offset is provided

A generic error that can be used to add an error to a query for a specific field

Used when an invalid sort order is provided

Used when the data_layer does not support a given lock type

Due to the filter-based implementation of keyset pagination, it cannot be used with sorts on calculations.

Used when a resource would be read but has no read action

Used when an attribute that doesn't exist is used in a query

Used when a key in a filter contains something that is neither an attribute or a relationship

Used when a filter predicate that does not exist is referenced

Used when an function that doesn't exist is used in a query

Used when an operator that doesn't exist is used in a query

Used when an relationship that doesn't exist is used in a query

Used when an entity that not exist is referenced

Used when a relationship is filtered and the destination does not have a default read action

Used when an actor is referenced in a filter template, but no actor exists

Used when a filter or argument is required in a query

Used when attempting to sort on a field that cannot be used for sorting

Used when the data_layer does not support a provided predicate

Used when no data was provided to the simple data layer

A placeholder for a stacktrace so that we can avoid printing it everywhere

The top level unknown error container

Used when an unknown error occurs

Tools to build Ash expressions

The representation of a filter in Ash.

Represents a predicate which can be simplified and/or compared with other predicates

Checks a record to see if it matches a filter statement.

Represents a simplified filter, with a simple list of predicates

A negated predicate

Helpers for building filter templates

A flow is a static definition of a set of steps to be run.

An argument to a flow

Tools to render an Ash.Flow as a mermaid chart.

A flow executor runs a given flow module

Executes the requests using the Ash engine, which can parallelize individual steps when possible.

Flow introspection functions.

The result of running a flow.

A behaviour for implementing a custom step in a flow.

Represents a branching set of steps in an Ash.Flow

Represents a create action step in an Ash.Flow

Represents a custom step in an Ash.Flow

Represents a debug step in an Ash.Flow

Represents a destroy action step in an Ash.Flow

Represents a map grouping of steps in an Ash.Flow

Represents a read action step in an Ash.Flow

Represents a nested flow step in an Ash.Flow

Represents steps grouped into a transaction in an Ash.Flow

Represents an update action step in an Ash.Flow

Template functions available while declaring steps.

Helpers for working with Ash.Flow templates.

Sets the api on the steps of a flow to the default api, unless an api is set explicitly.

Validates that no nested steps contain no steps

Validates that steps have unique names.

Ensures that all steps in a return statement are returnable

Represents a field that was hidden due to authorization rules.

Tools for generating input to Ash resource actions, as well as for seeds.

Helpers for Ash Mix tasks.

Used when an aggregate or relationship hasn't been loaded.

Used when an aggregate or relationship hasn't been loaded.

A notifier is an extension that receives various events

Represents a notification that will be handled by a resource's notifiers

A pubsub notifier extension.

Introspection helpers for Ash.Notifier.PubSub

Represents a configured publication from the pubsub notifier on an Ash.Resource

Helpers for working with nimble options

Types for Ash pages

A page of results from keyset based pagination.

A page of results from offset based pagination.

Helpers for working with the Plug connection.

An authorization extension for ash resources.

Adds field policies for any missing fields

Cache field policies for each field

Generates policy mermaid charts

A behaviour for declaring checks, which can be used to easily construct authorization rules.

This check is true when the current action is being run "through" a relationship.

This check is true when the action name matches the provided action name.

This check is true when the action type matches the provided type

This check is true when the value of the specified attribute of the actor equals the specified value.

This check is true when there is an actor specified, and false when the actor is nil.

This check is true when a field on the record matches a specific filter.

The global authorization checks built into ash

This check is true when attribute changes correspond to the provided options.

This check is true when the specified relationship is changing

This check is true when the value of the specified key or path in the changeset or query context equals the specified value.

The check module used for exprs in policies

This check is true when the field provided is being referenced anywhere in a filter statement.

This check is true when the field or relationship, or path to field, is being loaded and false when it is not.

This check passes if the data relates to the actor via the specified relationship or path of relationships.

This check is true when the specified relationship is being changed to the current actor.

This check is true when the field is being selected and false when it is not.

This check is always the result provided

Represents a field policy in an Ash.Resource

A type of check that is represented by a filter statement

A type of check that is represented by a filter statement, and has access to the context.

An authorization extension for ash resources.

Represents a policy on an Ash.Resource

A type of check that operates only on request context, never on the data

Helpers for working with processes and Ash actions.

Utilities around constructing/manipulating ash queries.

Represents an aggregated association value

Represents a boolean expression

Represents a calculated attribute requested on a query

Represents a function call/AST node in an Ash query expression

Determines if a given related entity exists.

A function is a predicate with an arguments list.

Subtracts the given interval from the current time in UTC.

Gets an element in the list by index

Constructs a composite type in a way that is natively understood by the data layer

Returns true if the first string contains the second.

Adds the given interval to the current time in UTC

Adds the given interval to the current time in UTC

If the predicate is truthy, the provided exception is raised with the provided values.

Adds the given interval from the current time in UTC.

Gets the value at the provided path in the value, which must be a map or embed.

If predicate is truthy, then the second argument is returned, otherwise the third.

true if the provided field is nil

Runs the provided MFA and returns the result as a known value.

Returns the length of a list attribute defined by the composite type {:array, Type}.

Multiplies the value by negative one

Returns the current datetime

Rounds a float, decimal or integer to the given number of points

Joins a list of values.

Trims whitespace from a string

Split a string into a list of strings

Trims whitespace from a string

Returns the current datetime

Casts the value to a given type. Can also be used to provide type hints to data layers, where appropriate.

Represents the negation of the contained expression

An operator is a predicate with a left and a right

left == right

left > right

left >= right

left in [1, 2, 3]

left is_nil true/false

left < right

left <= right

left != right

true if the provided field is nil Used to access values from the "source" of a given expression.

Represents a relation/attribute reference

A registry allows you to separate your resources from your api module, to reduce improve compile times and reduce compile time dependencies.

A small DSL for declaring an Ash.Registry. Not generally necessary any longer.

Represents an entry in an Ash.Registry

Introspection helpers for Ash.Registry

Adds some top level validations of resources present in a registry

Ensures that all resources for a given registry are not embeds.

Ensures that all resources for a given registry are compiled.

Ensures that all related resources are included in an API.

Warns if a registry has no entries in it

A resource is a static definition of an entity in your system.

Types for Ash actions

Represents a custom action on a resource.

Represents an argument to an action

Represents a create action on a resource.

Represents a destroy action on a resource.

An implementation of a generic action.

Represents metadata from an action

Represents a read action on a resource.

Represents the pagination configuration of a read action

Represents a update action on a resource.

Represents a named aggregate on the resource that can be loaded

The root behavior for a custom aggregate.

Represents a join filter on a resource aggregate

Represents an attribute on a resource

Helpers for building attributes

Tools for transforming resources in DSL Transformers.

Represents a named calculation on a resource

An argument to a calculation

Built in calculations that are automatically imported in the calculations section

Loads an attribute as a calculation.

Loads a relationship as a calculation.

Represents a function that evaluates a calculation in a resource's code interface

The behaviour for an action-specific resource change.

Built in changes that are available to all resources

Refetches the record being updated or destroyed, and locks it with the given type.

Refetches the record being updated or destroyed, and locks it for update.

Increments an attribute's value by the amount specified, which defaults to 1.

Performs an optimistic lock on the changeset.

Represents a unique constraint on a resource

Introspection for resources

Represents a function in a resource's code interface

A module to implement manual create actions.

A module to implement manual destroy actions.

A module to implement manual read actions.

A module to implement manual relationships.

A module to implement manual update actions.

The behaviour for an action-specific query preparation.

Builtin query preparations

Types Ash relationships

Represents a belongs_to relationship on a resource

Represents a has_many relationship on a resource

Represents a has_one relationship on a resource

Represents a many_to_many relationship on a resource

Persists attribute_names and attributes_by_name.

Creates the attribute for belongs_to relationships that have define_attribute?: true

Validates and caches the primary key of a resource

Persists commonly used relationship information.

Creates an automatically named has_many relationship for each many_to_many.

Sets the default accept for each action

Creates the default primary key if one applies.

Transform any read actions which contain a get_by option.

Guesses the destination_attribute for has many and has one relationships unless provided

Guesses the destination_attribute_on_join_resource for many to many relationships unless provided.

Guesses the source_attribute_on_join_resource for many to many relationships unless provided.

Ensures that all actions have unique names.

Confirms that a resource does not have multiple fields(attributes, calculations, aggregates, and relationships) with the same name.

Sets the source key on relationships to be the resource they were defined on

Validates the primary action configuration

Persists global changes/validations and what type they go on.

Represents a validation in Ash.

Validates that the action is the specified action.

Built in validations that are available to all resources

Ensures that countable paginated actions do not exist for resources that are not countable

Ensures that the field at the end of the path is an attribute or calculation.

Confirms that a resource does not use reserved names for field names.

Validates that accept and reject lists only contain valid attributes

Confirms that all action types declared on a resource are supported by its data layer

Confirms that all aggregates are supported by the data layer

Confirms that eager identities are not declared on a resource with no primary read.

Confirms that all action types declared on a resource are supported by its data layer

Ensures that the multitenancy configuration is valid for the given resource

Validates and caches the primary key of a resource

Validates that all relationships point to valid fields

Shows a warning on potentially incompatible relationship attributes.

Raises an error on potentially incompatible identity attributes.

Verifies that standard context keys are not used as calculation arguments

Tools for working with the satsolver that drives filter subset checking (for authorization)

Helpers for seeding data, useful for quickly creating lots of data either for database seeding or testing.

Utilities and types for sorting.

Testing helpers for Ash.

A behaviour for implementing tracing for an Ash application.

A simple tracer that can send traces to the current process or call a module with the trace.

A span produced by Ash.Tracer.Simple

Describes how to convert data to Ecto.Type and eventually into the database.

Stores an atom as a string in the database

Represents a binary.

Represents a boolean.

Stores a case insensitive string in the database

Helpers for working with Comparable

Represents a date in the database

Represents a datetime, with configurable precision and timezone.

Represents a decimal.

An interval of time, primarily meant to be used in expression functions

A type for abstracting enums into a single type.

Represents a float (floating point number)

Represents a function.

Represents a simple integer

Represents a keyword list, stored as a :map in the database.

Represents a map stored in the database.

Stores a module as a string in the database.

Represents a Naive datetime

Allows defining a new type that is the combination of an existing type and custom constraints

Stores a string in the database.

Represents a struct.

Represents a raw elixir term in the database

Represents a time in the database

Represents a UUID.

A union between multiple types, distinguished with a tag or by attempting to validate.

Represents a binary that attempts to decode input strings as a url encoded base64 string.

Represents a utc datetime. A wrapper around :datetime for backwards compatibility.

Represents a utc datetime with nanosecond precision. A wrapper around :datetime for backwards compatibility.

Represents a vector.

Helpers for working with UUIDs

A wrapper for values that are sourced from Ash.Type.Union.

A vector struct for Ash.

Runs all codegen tasks for any extension on any resource/api in your application.

Generates a Mermaid Flow Chart for each Ash.Flow alongside the flow.

Generates a Livebook for each Ash API.

Generates a Mermaid Flow Chart for a given resource's policies.

Generates a Mermaid Resource Diagram for each Ash API.

Runs all migration tasks for any extension on any resource/api in your application.

Runs all tear down tasks for any extension on any resource/api in your application, followed by setup tasks.

Runs all setup tasks for any extension on any resource/api in your application.

Runs all tear down tasks for any extension on any resource/api in your application.