OK, why do I get object#lkadfllajdsf when I run this:

Figured it out. Never mind!

Transducer?

By the way, @kopasetik, consider run! instead of map since you want side effects to occur.

@mfikes: Thanks. Making a little lightning talk on destructuring.

@kopasetik: sounds like a good idea - where will you be presenting it?

2 places in the next 2 days.

1) http://www.meetup.com/Invisible-College/events/227882047/

2) http://www.meetup.com/seattlejshackers/events/227845055/

Why is it pertinent to a JS meetup? Well, it’ll be a comparison of destructuring in Clojure to destructuring in ES6 JS

nice. will you be at clojure/west 2016?

Crossing my fingers about Clojure/west. Just applied for an opportunity grant.

what about submitting a speaking proposal

I need to get started on a proposal. Or just keep procrastinating.

or go smoke another cig...

Heh, I’m feeling like that’s a bit ambitious as I’m pretty green as a Clojure dev. A lightning talk is one thing, but a talk at conference?

But, might as well try, right?

go for it

you could do a 40 minute presentation on destructuring

Yeah!

Question- how might I get the JSON from this address using Clojure: http://www.omdbapi.com/?s=highlander

It doesn’t have any access origin restrictions

you never know who might be interested in the subject: https://github.com/clojurewest/clojurewest2016/wiki/Suggested-Topics

@kopasetik: you can use slurp to just get it as a string

Then there is clojure.data.json which can parse it for you

@martinklepsch: Thanks! You can use slurp with URLs?

Has anyone used ring-cors (https://github.com/r0man/ring-cors) or knows a way to set 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' for a (simple) Clojure app

Error message: Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not locate data/json__init.class or data/json.clj on classpath., compiling:(clojure_noob/core.clj:1:1)

Never mind. Fixed it!

@kopasetik: left computer earlier, glad you got it working http://clojuredocs.org is great to look up things like slurp and what exactly they're doing

I’m having trouble mapping across the JSON data that I’m getting back from an API call

This works...

But this doesn’t...

@kopasetik: printing in general is a side effectful function

@kopasetik: map is lazy which causes nothing to be printed because the result isn't used

or are you experiencing another issue?

see the first example here: http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/doall

@martinklepsch: Yes, that must be it. How do I iterate across the data set to print it if I can’t use map? Or can I make my mapping work by adding a default return value to the function?

@kopasetik: see the example in the link above it explains the problem + solution

simple answer is wrap the map call in doall

another alternative would be using doseq but for now doall should be sufficient

Just looked at the documentation examples. Thanks! 😄

clojuredocs is full of these examples, if you ever have a function not behaving as you expect chances are there's an example covering it

Awesome!

I don’t think that I would have been able to figure out that specific problem just by looking at Clojuredocs

Well for that case there are channels like this one

can someone explain why

(map vals ({:name "drew" :glitter-index 0 } {:name "alex" :glitter-index 1 }))

=> ()

(("drew" 0) ("alex" 1))

The parentheses around the third form don’t stand for “list of maps”, they stand for “execute the fn found in the first position with the rest of the args"

You just got “lucky” in that clojure maps can be evaluated as fns

You probably want to use a vector of maps: [{:name “drew” :glitter-index 0} …]

@donaldball, gotcha. I was just thinking it was because it was expecting a function/that wasn't a list of maps

@drewverlee: You can also prevent evaluation by quoting: (map vals '({:name "drew" :glitter-index 0 } {:name "alex" :glitter-index 1 }))

@mfikes, thanks. I recall you quote things to use them as their DS rather then have them eval.

How compatible is Clojure with the R5RS standard for Scheme? Is it close enough that only minor edits and perhaps helper functions are needed?

it is not close

yea i'm signed up for http://clojureremote.com/! I'm sure this conference has gotten lots of love in this channel already, but if your on the fence there is a coupon through Clojure Gazette (lispcast). Also sense its remote their isn't the normal overhead/cost associated with conferences. I feel this makes it very 'beginner' friendly .

Question - I know that I can use slurp to access data from http websites and apis. Is there any way that I can use it to access apis that require authentication for access?

@alexmiller: thank you

@kopasetik: Clj-http has all kinds of features, including a few different auth schemes

@chris: thanks!