Setting values saved in database

[jamilabreu]

Hey @acalejos! 👋

Playing around with Flint, how would I control how an embedded_schema gets saved in the database? I have:

defmodule App.PersonData do
  use Flint.Schema, extensions: [Accessible, Embedded, JSON]

  embedded_schema do
    field :name, :string, omitempty: true
    field :slug, :string
  end
end

defmodule App.Person do
  use Flint.Schema

  schema "people" do
    embeds_one :data, App.PersonData
  end
end

When I Repo.insert! with the name field blank, the database still shows %{name: null}, but running Repo.insert! |> Jason.encode! returns the expected result

[acalejos]

Hey @jamilabreu , sorry for the late response. I didn't test much with using with the DB since its main use is for in memory, but with all Ecto types you can use the 'embed_as' and 'dump' callbacks to control how it gets stored in memory and in the db. If you need to keep the same types but just change that behavior, look at Flint.Type