function nil.id/0 is undefined - Elixir, Phoenix

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I can't figure out how to do the check correctly to hide the actions from the user

<%= if @current_user.id == @post.user_id do %>
  <span>
    <%= link "Edit", to: Routes.post_path(@conn, :edit, @post) %>
  </span>
  <span>
    <%= link "Delete", to: Routes.post_path(@conn, :delete, @post), method: :delete, data: [confirm: "Are you sure"] %>
  </span>
<% end %>

When the user is not logged in, this error appears:

UndefinedFunctionError at GET /posts/1 function nil.id/0 is undefined

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1 Answers

In this case, your @current_user is nil, so Elixir tries to run nil.id which fails.

You could probably solve your issue by checking for nil first:

<%= if @current_user && @current_user.id == @post.user_id do %>

The error message is a bit confusing because nil is also an atom, and the a.b syntax has two uses in Elixir:

  • accessing an atom key :b on a map/struct a (what you are trying to do)
  • calling the a.b() function, with a being a module atom

nil also being an atom, it gets interpreted as nil.id(), but the nil.id/0 function doesn't exist since nil is not an actual module.

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