Updating mutiple fields in a Model by passing a reference

[VaZark]

From what I've seen in the Basic CRUD section of the docs, it seems like we need to manually Set every field that needs to be updated before passing to the update function.

Is there any method to pass a reference and expect it to update all or most of the fields?

[billy1624]

Hey @VaZark, I'm not sure what you mean by "pass a reference and expect it to update all or most of the fields". Could you show me a demo for it? Thanks!

[VaZark]

    let task: Option<task::Model> = Task::find_by_id(id)
        .one(conn)
        .await
        .expect("Error fetching");

    // Parsed from input JSON<task::Model>
    let mut payload: task::ActiveModel = payload.into(); 
    payload.id = Set(task.id);

   // When I run the following, I expected it to update all the fields
   // However since only the id field is Set, only that is updated (makes sense ofc)
    let updated_task = payload.update(conn).await;  
    
   //It would cleaner if I could do something like
    let updated_task = payload.updateAllFields(conn).await;  

[billy1624]

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