Guys, im curious what’s the right way to do something similar to saga pattern in clojure? i have around 6 steps each with http request and i’d like to handle errors and retry on each of them

@olegakbarov what are you missing specifically to Clojure ?

im not sure that 6 level ladder of callbacks is way-to-go for me

so i guess i somehow should utilize core.async

but struggling to find reference

what's the difference between :require-macros and :refer-macros?

@olegakbarov maybe you should try to write it with synchronous code first, then use core.async to make it non-blocking

(in clojurescript)

can i ask questions about emacs here?

might have better luck in the #emacs chan

no one is there 😞 but oki

@lepistane you could try out spacemacs as it has nice defaults. It basically packages up a load of packages into layers #spacemacs

thank you

Why isn't :b wrote something logged?

I've followed http://acidwords.com/posts/2015-07-23-fixing-negation-in-clojure-test.html in order to have negation tests for thrown?

(defmacro is-not-thrown? [e expr]
  `(is (not ('thrown? ~e ~expr))))

but everytime I call it in an assertion I get an error like the one below:

FAIL in () (form-init8859583272323518059.clj:1)
expected: (clojure.core/not ((quote api-test/thrown?) Exception {:body 12}))
  actual: (not (clojure.core/not {:body 12}))

Has anyone encountered this kind of error before: JSON error (unexpected character): < I am getting this error while parsing a response. As many stackoverflow posts say , I am not parsing already parsed response

Have you run it through a json validator?

To make sure it’s properly formed json

If you’re getting < that sounds like you’re getting HTML back instead of JSON. Can you hit the same URL via curl or in a browser to see what response you’re really getting?

Yeah, I've often seen similar things when I'm calling a web service that is supposed to return JSON, but the back-end throws an exception so it returns an HTML error page instead

a coworker walked in and i pretended to be busy. did not mean to post it though 🙂

Thanks for the response everyone..

@7h3kk1d hmm its not actually.. I am trying through curl as @seancorfield is suggesting to see what exactly it is returning

If you can post the output we can probably say what’s wrong.

If not and it looks like json I’d try removing parts of it to see where the mistake is

I am afraid I can post it here , there is some processing done on response before it even reaches that point. I am guessing there is some magic happening there..

That makes sense.