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Ash Elixir•3y ago
kwmiebach

How to get rid of ellipsis and see everything in IO.inspect()

When we look at the examples there are lines with only '...' that replace some data, see https://www.ash-hq.org/docs/guides/ash/latest/tutorials/get-started#try-our-first-resource-out The truncation seems some behaviour of IO.inspect(). I would like to use IO.inspect() and see everything, even it uses a lot of space. I tried the following code in an exs script with Elixir 1.14.1 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 25) : 
Helpdesk.Support.Ticket
|> Ash.Changeset.for_create(:create)
|> IO.inspect(limit: :infinity, printable_limit: :infinity)
|> Helpdesk.Support.create!()
|> IO.inspect(limit: :infinity, printable_limit: :infinity)
Helpdesk.Support.Ticket
|> Ash.Changeset.for_create(:create)
|> IO.inspect(limit: :infinity, printable_limit: :infinity)
|> Helpdesk.Support.create!()
|> IO.inspect(limit: :infinity, printable_limit: :infinity)
The Output is still truncated. I inserted the :limit and :printable_limit options but it does not help. My output: 
#Ash.Changeset<
  action_type: :create,
  action: :create,
  attributes: %{},
  relationships: %{},
  errors: [],
  data: #Helpdesk.Support.Ticket<
    __meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:built, "">,
    id: nil,
    subject: nil,
    aggregates: %{},
    calculations: %{},
    __order__: nil,
    ...
  >,
  valid?: true
>
#Ash.Changeset<
  action_type: :create,
  action: :create,
  attributes: %{},
  relationships: %{},
  errors: [],
  data: #Helpdesk.Support.Ticket<
    __meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:built, "">,
    id: nil,
    subject: nil,
    aggregates: %{},
    calculations: %{},
    __order__: nil,
    ...
  >,
  valid?: true
>
#Helpdesk.Support.Ticket<
  __meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:built, "">,
  id: "a5f8986c-1c13-42e1-9b41-66649e89ed11",
  subject: nil,
  aggregates: %{},
  calculations: %{},
  __order__: nil,
  ...
>
#Helpdesk.Support.Ticket<
  __meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:built, "">,
  id: "a5f8986c-1c13-42e1-9b41-66649e89ed11",
  subject: nil,
  aggregates: %{},
  calculations: %{},
  __order__: nil,
  ...
>
6 Replies
dj_goku
dj_goku•3y ago
IO.inspect(structs: false)
ZachDaniel
ZachDaniel•3y ago
Warning: it will be yuge in some cases
dj_goku
dj_goku•3y ago
This is seared in my head after wondering the same as you. dbg might not truncate as much. Yuge?
ZachDaniel
ZachDaniel•3y ago
Huge 😂 Like lots of output
dj_goku
dj_goku•3y ago
Lol oh yeah
kwmiebach
kwmiebachOP•3y ago
IO.inspect(structs: false) worked. thanks a lot 🙏 It's a little bit hidden in the elixir docs: :structs - when false, structs are not formatted by the inspect protocol, they are instead printed as maps. Defaults to true. and I still don't understand why the :infinity values did not work

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