Usage question

[mikepc]

Since the underlying data type in postgres is uuid DB clients render the ULID as a UUID. I can query using the DB client fine with these IDs, but how do I query for records from within iex

eg. iex(2)> MyApp.Repo.get!(Blog, "<TBD>") I tried a couple of encoding/decoding ideas, but I'm drawing a blank.

[voughtdq]

If you're talking about a UUID received from a non-Elixir DB client, the way to go about this is to use Ecto.UUID.dump/1 first. So, given a UUID representation of a ULID 018f7ad0-d3da-6a9c-61de-b883f459a3a1:

iex(1)> {:ok, uuid_bin} = Ecto.UUID.dump("018f7ad0-d3da-6a9c-61de-b883f459a3a1")
{:ok,
 <<1, 143, 122, 208, 211, 218, 106, 156, 97, 222, 184, 131, 244, 89, 163, 161>>}
iex(2)> {:ok, ulid} = Ecto.ULID.load(uuid_bin)
{:ok, "01HXXD1MYTDAE63QNRGFT5K8X1"}
iex(3)> MyApp.Repo.get!(Blog, ulid)
%Blog{...}

If you're going to be doing this a lot, it might make sense to fork this project and customize Ecto.ULID.cast/1 so it also accepts and validates a ULID-conformant UUID.