Provide an Ecto custom type Ecto.Atom to manage :atom.
Installation
If available in Hex, the package can be installed
by adding ecto_atom to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:
def deps do [{:ecto_atom, "~> 1.0.0"}] end
Use
defmodule MyApp.User do use MyApp.Web, :model @primary_key {:id, :binary_id, autogenerate: true} @derive {Phoenix.Param, key: :id} schema "users" do field :email, :string field :provider, Ecto.Atom # :github => 'github' in DB field :uid, :string field :token, :string ... end end
Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_atom.