Ash Framework

Structured Data with Validations and Identities

Tunez can now accept form data that should be more structured, instead of just text. We’re also looking at data in a smaller scope. Instead of “any artist in the world that ever was”, which is a massive data set, we’re looking at albums for any individual artist, which is a much smaller and well-defined list.

Let’s set some stricter rules for this data, for better data integrity.

Consistent Data with Validations

With Albums, we want users to enter a valid year for an album’s year_released attribute, instead of any old integer, and a valid-looking image URL for the cover_image_url attribute. We can enforce these rules with validations.

Any defined validations are checked when calling an action, ...