View Source Ecto.Schema.Metadata (Ecto v3.8.3)
Stores metadata of a struct.
state
State
The state of the schema is stored in the :state
field and allows
following values:
:built
- the struct was constructed in memory and is not persisted to database yet;:loaded
- the struct was loaded from database and represents persisted data;:deleted
- the struct was deleted and no longer represents persisted data.
source
Source
The :source
tracks the (table or collection) where the struct is or should
be persisted to.
prefix
Prefix
Tracks the source prefix in the data storage.
context
Context
The :context
field represents additional state some databases require
for proper updates of data. It is not used by the built-in adapters of
Ecto.Adapters.Postgres
and Ecto.Adapters.MySQL
.
schema
Schema
The :schema
field refers the module name for the schema this metadata belongs to.
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@type context() :: any()
@type state() :: :built | :loaded | :deleted
@type t(schema) :: %Ecto.Schema.Metadata{ context: context(), prefix: Ecto.Schema.prefix(), schema: schema, source: Ecto.Schema.source(), state: state() }