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Using When Clauses In A With Construct

elixir Written March 13, 2019

Because Elixir's with construct supports the full power of the language's pattern matching, we can use when clauses to further narrow down our matches.

For instance, if we want to match against the response to an API request, but only for response status codes in the 2xx range, we can do something like the following:

with %{status_code: code, body: body}
       when code >= 200 && code < 300 <- HTTPoison.get!(url),
     {:ok, decoded_body} <- Poison.decode(body) do
  {:ok, decoded_body}
end

See the docs for with for more details.

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