Ecto.Changeset.cast

Given the embedded schema

embedded_schema do
  field(:mame, :string)
end

Used by the following code raises a pattern match error that can be difficult to diagnose. Notice that the schema definition uses :mame with an “M”, and @root_fields uses correct (but mismatched) :name with an “N”

@root_fields [:name]

parsed = Jason.decode!(data)

%__MODULE__{}
|> Ecto.Changeset.cast(parsed, @root_fields)

I got sidetracked thinking that the cast was unhappy because the passed data was using string keys

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