How do you plan to use it?

In a lot of cases whenever I've felt the need for socat, i got around it by adding a bb script to do stuff on the socket 😄

i'm writing a really cool thing, part of whose draw is that I can drop babashka scripts in to do various tasks, service discovery, metrics proxy etc. This one is a hybrid zincati-consul bridge that is a fleetlock server and also bridges the unix socket metrics to http-kit

so, I just need to read the socket. (shell/sh "socat" "-" "UNIX-CONNECT:/run/zincati/public/metrics.promsock")

would reading the socket with babashka curl suffice? we ship curl in the image

something like https://github.com/babashka/babashka.curl#unix-sockets and streaming the output might work?

I know you can make an http request to a unix socket with curl, dunno about anything lower level than that though

right, that example is making an http request. zincati has no http server

yeah its just a scheme that curl needs, inst really important

its essentially talking to the socket

well, it's talking to it over http

I don't think curl can just do bidirectional byte streams like socat

maybe I can just slurp it actually

yeah if it being an in/outputsream suffices would be great

also if we update to graalvm 17 we could enable the unix socket support java.net.Socket in bb. cc @U04V15CAJ

yeah I think I need some kind of socket API. socat would be nice though, it's a pretty common tool.. same with netcat

for now having your own derived image should work i guess? we can have a think about this one til then.

yup, just made a derived image for this. https://github.com/nivekuil/zincati-consul

sure beats 2000 lines of go!

are you seeing some errors? in :messages ?

Yeah. It's just this:

Vim(return):E716: Key not present in Dictionary: "response, 'value', [])"

Not sure, maybe fireplace expects something more out of the nREPL impl we have, could try in #vim? I dont use fireplace but a quick look online seems to not give promising experience with fireplace and bb nREPL

I tried #vim already. It's the same nrepl that's in cider, right? Which works fine. I guess I need to open a bug report.

did we try fireplace before @U04V15CAJ, i vaguely remember some conversation long time ago and having issues?

I think so, else it wasn't added to the book as known working things :)

but I could remove it ;)

sorry, I don't know how to work with vim so I can't try it out myself

yeah me too for fireplace, not sure how its implemented

Maybe best ask in #vim

> It's the same nrepl that's in cider, right? Which works fine is this true for the bb nREPL?

or does cider add in some middleware too?

I don't understand the question

this question: https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CLX41ASCS/p1650373626533409?thread_ts=1650319050.969279&cid=CLX41ASCS

yes, bb nrepl works fine in CIDER, Calva, ...

yeah thats why im thinking its something fireplace specific, @U02UHTG2YH5 could you open up an issue in the fireplace repo too?

Yeah, it sounds like that is the right place. I'll do that today.

Done! https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace/issues/401