Phoenix LiveDashboard with Content Security Policy (CSP)

If your Phoenix application enforces CSP rules, and you try to deploy the Phoenix LiveDashboard in production, you will probably get something like this: In my case, inline CSS is not loaded because of the style-src CSP rule I had to enforce on the project: style-src 'self'; This means that all unsafe inline CSS code is disabled by the browser. Unfortunately, the Phoenix LiveDashboard uses inline CSS, and that’s not something I can change....

January 17, 2023 · 4 min · Francis Chabouis

Keep Elixir test output clean

Does your Elixir test output look like this? If so, keep reading. It is common to use the Logger library, to log things that happen in your application. def query_api(url) do with {:ok, %{status_code: 200, body: body}} <- HTTPoison.get(url), {:ok, json} <- Jason.decode(body) do {:ok, json} else e -> Logger.error("impossible to query api: #{inspect(e)}") {:error, "api service unavailable"} end end It is also common to test the behavior of your application, in different scenarios....

July 23, 2022 · 2 min · Francis Chabouis

Stream S3 > zip > CSV > Postgres with Elixir

I was recently confronted with this situation: an S3 bucket contains a zip file the zip file contains a CSV I want to take the content of that CSV, transform it, and push it to a Postgres database Without streaming Without streaming, the steps to do that are the following: download the zip archive locally (maybe it is huge!) unzip the archive open the CSV file and load its content in memory (maybe it is huge!...

March 25, 2022 · 3 min · Francis Chabouis

Stream data from an API to your database with Elixir

Make your Elixir streams come true Last time we talked about simply streaming a paginated API with Elixir. It was fun, but somehow pointless, because we ended up writing this: datasets = stream_api.("https://data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/") |> Stream.take(50) |> Enum.to_list() Streams in Elixir are lazy, meaning that no work will be done by the stream until necessary. If you just write: datasets = stream_api.("https://data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/") |> Stream.take(50) You create a stream, say that you are only interested by the first 50 elements....

October 8, 2021 · 9 min · Francis Chabouis

Stream a paginated API with Elixir

The goal You want to fetch data from an external API with Elixir, and this API is paginated. Your code needs to do make API calls, but just the right number of them. Maybe you’re only interested by the first 2 pages of results, and don’t want to fetch everything. We’ll use for this example the data.gouv.fr api, the French portal for open data. Let’s request a list of all datasets available....

September 9, 2021 · 4 min · Francis Chabouis