From 45be69637e48caabc71e83e6db8c23e34d914d6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobie Morgan Hitchcock <tobie@abcum.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 09:42:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Add=20=E2=80=98record=E2=80=99=20as=20a=20field?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20type?=
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---
 sql/type.go       |  2 +-
 util/item/each.go | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sql/type.go b/sql/type.go
index 2b071003..7b84a7e1 100644
--- a/sql/type.go
+++ b/sql/type.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ package sql
 
 func (p *parser) parseType() (exp string, err error) {
 
-	allowed := []string{"any", "url", "uuid", "color", "email", "phone", "array", "object", "domain", "string", "number", "double", "custom", "boolean", "datetime", "latitude", "longitude"}
+	allowed := []string{"any", "url", "uuid", "color", "email", "phone", "array", "object", "domain", "record", "string", "number", "double", "custom", "boolean", "datetime", "latitude", "longitude"}
 
 	_, lit, err := p.shouldBe(IDENT, CUSTOM)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/util/item/each.go b/util/item/each.go
index 4850bdf5..52908a43 100644
--- a/util/item/each.go
+++ b/util/item/each.go
@@ -247,6 +247,17 @@ func (this *Doc) chck(fld *sql.DefineFieldStatement, key string, old, val interf
 				}
 			}
 
+		case "record":
+			if cnv, ok := val.(*sql.Thing); ok {
+				this.current.Set(cnv, key)
+			} else {
+				if fld.Validate {
+					return fmt.Errorf("Field '%v' needs to be a record, but found '%v'", key, val)
+				} else {
+					this.current.Iff(old, key)
+				}
+			}
+
 		case "string":
 			if cnv, err := conv.ConvertToString(val); err == nil {
 				this.current.Set(cnv, key)