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dylanjha
dylanjha

Reputation: 2523

Replace item in an array in elixir

Let's say I have a map that looks like this

An organization has an array of properties and the properties has an array of "access_tokens"

organization = %{
  name: "Org",
  properties: [
    %{
      name: "prop1",
      access_tokens: [%{id: "at-1", name: "one-1"}, %{id: "at-2", name: "one-2"}]
    },
    %{
      name: "prop2",
      access_tokens: [%{id: "at-3", name: "two-1"}, %{id: "at-4", name: "two-2"}]
    }
  ]
}

Now I have this map, for one particular access token, the id for this one matches one of the access tokens for the 2nd property:

access_token = %{id: "at-3", name: "new name"}

What is the best way to iterate over to update the organization%{} map with the new access token? What I want to do is find the access token that matches based on id and replace it with the new one that has the new name.

I have some round-about ways of doing this, but what is a clean way to do this in Elixir.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2051

Answers (1)

Aleksei Matiushkin
Aleksei Matiushkin

Reputation: 121010

You do not need to iterate, just use Access, Access.filter/1, and Access.all/0:

put_in(
  organization,
  [:properties,
   Access.all(),
   :access_tokens,
   Access.filter(&match?(%{id: "at-3"}, &1)),
   :name],
  "new_name")

I always wonder, how this one of the most powerful things in the language is extremely underrated.

Upvotes: 14

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