Mandarin.Designer (mandarin v0.7.0)
Convenience functions to design an application (paramsbase, schemas, contexts and HTML) in a programmatic way.
This is equivalent to using the Phoenix and Mandarin generators, but with a nicer API which allows you to use the full power of the Elixir language to run the generators instead of relying on custom bash scripts or manually running the generators.
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Functions
Generate a mandarin context (without generating a web interface)
Generate a mandarin context (without generating a web interface).
Generate mandarin web interfaces (schemas, context and the web part) for a list of params.
Generate a mandarin schema (without generating a context or any web interface).
Install Mandarin into the given context.
Create a foreign key reference
Tag a field as unique.
Update the options for a list
Run a function (fun) which may create migration files and add marker files
to migrations path to delimit which migrations were generated.
This makes it easier to see which migrations were generated as a group.
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drop_migrations_if_already_exist(migration_path \\ "priv/repo/migrations", tag)
generate_mandarin_context(params, migrations_path \\ "priv/repo/migrations")
Specs
generate_mandarin_context(Mandarin.Designer.Params.t(), String.t()) :: :ok
Generate a mandarin context (without generating a web interface)
generate_mandarin_html(params, migrations_path \\ "priv/repo/migrations")
Specs
generate_mandarin_html(Mandarin.Designer.Params.t(), String.t()) :: :ok
Generate a mandarin context (without generating a web interface).
If the params belong to a join_through table, this is the same
as running generate_mandarin_schema(params).
generate_mandarin_html_for_all(list_of_params, tag, migrations_path \\ "priv/repo/migrations")
Generate mandarin web interfaces (schemas, context and the web part) for a list of params.
If the any params belong to a join_through table, this will run
generate_mandarin_schema(params) for those params.
generate_mandarin_schema(params, migrations_path \\ "priv/repo/migrations")
Specs
generate_mandarin_schema(Mandarin.Designer.Params.t(), String.t()) :: :ok
Generate a mandarin schema (without generating a context or any web interface).
This might be useful for schemas that are meant to act only as join_through tables
for many-to-many relations. These schemas don't require a context or a web interface.
In fact, the user is not meant to interact with them directly.
Ecto will be capable of using them when required if the schemas are configured correctly.
install_mandarin(context)
Specs
install_mandarin(String.t()) :: :ok
Install Mandarin into the given context.
The context should be an upper case plural string
(this function doesn't take a )
Example
install_mandarin("Admin")references(foreign_table)
Create a foreign key reference
unique(type)
Tag a field as unique.
update_options(list_of_params, options)
Specs
update_options([Mandarin.Designer.Params.t()], Keyword.t()) :: [ Mandarin.Designer.Params.t() ]
Update the options for a list
with_ecto_design_markers(tag, migrations_path \\ "priv/repo/migrations", fun)
Run a function (fun) which may create migration files and add marker files
to migrations path to delimit which migrations were generated.
This makes it easier to see which migrations were generated as a group.
The migration files will contain the tag in the file name, so you may want
to make it descriptive.