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Elisha Hastings authored
In Elixir, you can't call a protocol on a module name - for instance when calling an implemented protocol with a struct, you have to pass the struct data as the first argument, not the struct module. When parsing some markup with a custom type, Mecto doesn't have the data, and can't just try create a struct from the module name as not all custom types will be structs (also it's a bit hacky). There are a few ways around this, but as this is a library a lot of them aren't feasible (you can't create a behaviour in a module from another project, for instance). The simplest solution seems to be using `protocol_ex`.
Elisha Hastings authoredIn Elixir, you can't call a protocol on a module name - for instance when calling an implemented protocol with a struct, you have to pass the struct data as the first argument, not the struct module. When parsing some markup with a custom type, Mecto doesn't have the data, and can't just try create a struct from the module name as not all custom types will be structs (also it's a bit hacky). There are a few ways around this, but as this is a library a lot of them aren't feasible (you can't create a behaviour in a module from another project, for instance). The simplest solution seems to be using `protocol_ex`.
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