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.