Inspecto

Inspecto is a utility for inspecting Ecto schemas to view the field names, data types, and default values.

Note that Ecto schema modules do not contain full information about your database schemas: they only contain enough information to act as a viable intermediary for the Elixir layer. You cannot, for example, know character length limits or input constraints by merely inspecting Ecto schemas. Although Ecto migrations contain a lot more of this information, they too aren’t great for the purpose because migrations are additive with changes spread out over time, and importantly, there’s not requirement that a database be defined via migrations.

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed by adding inspecto to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:inspecto, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Usage

The envisioned usage of this packge is to call it from within one of your application’s @moduledoc tags.

Image Attribution

Inspect by Musaplated from NounProject.com