Normalize params.

.github/actions/setup-elixir/action.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ runs:
   steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - name: Set up Elixir
-      uses: erlef/setup-beam@988e02bfe678367a02564f65ca2e37726dc0268f
+      uses: erlef/setup-beam@v1
       with:
         elixir-version: "${{ inputs.elixir-version }}"
         otp-version: "${{ inputs.otp-version }}"

README.md

@@ -122,4 +122,14 @@ The first element of the tuple is the live component module and the second is th
 Optionally, the tuple can contain an extra first element that needs to be a PID. Though
 this might not be useful in the application code (there are way better ways to send events
 between processes), it is quite useful when testing. When testing a `LiveView`
-it creates a new process for it. Its PID can be accessed through `view.pid`.
+it creates a new process for it. Its PID can be accessed through `view.pid`.
+
+## Why are messages without params still receiving empty params?
+
+To normalize how to handle messages. If we could have `handle_info("message_name", _socket)`
+or `handle_info({"message_name", _params}, socket)`, you would need to think about whether
+the message contains params or not and then use a tuple. With this normalization, you only
+care about the message name and whether you need the params or not. Also, after using similar
+approaches in the past, sometimes you want to send params and sometimes you don't need to.
+In cases like these, it is helpful not having a different behaviour notifying an event without
+params and sending an event with _empty_ params.

lib/live_view_events/notify.ex

@@ -154,14 +154,20 @@ defmodule LiveViewEvents.Notify do
   - A PID.
   - A tuple of the form `{Module, "id"}` to send a message to a [`LiveView.Component`](`Phoenix.LiveView.Component`) in the same process.
   - A tuple of the form `{pid, Module, "id"}` to send a message to a [`LiveView.Component`](`Phoenix.LiveView.Component`) in a different process.
+
+  The event send will take the form of `{message, %{}}`.
   """
   def notify_to(nil, _message), do: nil
-  def notify_to(:self, message), do: notify_to(self(), message)
-  def notify_to(pid, message) when is_pid(pid), do: send(pid, message)
+  def notify_to(:self, message), do: notify_to(self(), normalize_message(message))
+  def notify_to(pid, message) when is_pid(pid), do: send(pid, normalize_message(message))
 
   def notify_to(target, message) when is_tuple(target) do
     {pid, module, id} = process_tuple(target)
-    Phoenix.LiveView.send_update(pid, module, %{:id => id, @assign_name_for_event => message})
+
+    Phoenix.LiveView.send_update(pid, module, %{
+      :id => id,
+      @assign_name_for_event => normalize_message(message)
+    })
   end
 
   @doc """
@@ -182,6 +188,9 @@ defmodule LiveViewEvents.Notify do
     })
   end
 
+  defp normalize_message({_message_name, %{} = _params} = message), do: message
+  defp normalize_message(message_name), do: {message_name, %{}}
+
   defp process_tuple({module, id}), do: {self(), module, id}
   defp process_tuple({pid, _module, _id} = target) when is_pid(pid), do: target
 end

test/live_view_events/notify_test.exs

@@ -10,4 +10,11 @@ defmodule LiveViewEvents.NotifyTest do
   test "notify_to/3 with `nil` target does not break" do
     Notify.notify_to(nil, "event", %{some: :params})
   end
+
+  test "notify_to/2 add default empty params" do
+    Notify.notify_to(:self, "event")
+
+    assert_receive {"event", %{} = params}
+    assert Enum.empty?(params)
+  end
 end