05: progressive construction
At the beginning of this tutorial, I told you that
add-ents takes an ent db as an argument:1
(sm/add-ents {:schema schema} {:post [[1]]})
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You may have wondered why the empty ent db
{:schema schema} is used, rather than just directly passing in schema; why don't we just write this?1
(sm/add-ents schema {:post [[1]]})
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The reason the first argument to
add-ents is an ent db is so you can take the return value of add-ents and pass it in as the first argument to further calls to add-ents:1
(ns reifyhealth.specmonstah-tutorial.05
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(:require [reifyhealth.specmonstah.core :as sm]))
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(def schema
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{:user {:prefix :u}
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:topic {:prefix :t
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:relations {:owner-id [:user :id]}}})
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(defn ex-01
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[]
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(let [ent-db-1 (sm/add-ents {:schema schema} {:topic [[1]]})
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ent-db-2 (sm/add-ents ent-db-1 {:topic [[1]
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[1 {:refs {:owner-id :hamburglar}}]]})]
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(sm/view ent-db-1)
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(sm/view ent-db-2)))
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(ex-01)
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Additional calls to
add-ents are additive; they will never alter existing ents, and will only add new ents. The first call, (sm/add-ents {:schema schema} {:topic [[1]]}), produces a :topic named :t0 referencing a :user named :u0:
That ent db is passed to the next call:
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(sm/add-ents ent-db-1 {:topic [[1]
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[1 {:refs {:owner-id :hamburglar}}]]})
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This creates two more topics:
The default naming system picks up where it left off, giving the topic the names
:t1 and :t2. :t1 references the existing user, :u0, and :t2 references a new user from the :refs, :hamburglar. When progressively generating an ent-db, you can expect Specmonstah to behave as if all queries were passed as a single query to a single call of add-ents.Everything you've learned up to this point has focused on generating an ent db: you've learned a bit about how to use schemas and queries together to concisely specify what ents to create. You've also learned how to customize the relationships with the
:refs query option.In the next couple sections, you'll learn about how Specmonstah uses visitation to generate and insert business data.
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