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Christian14:02:19

I want to call several Java methods and:

((juxt #(.getYear %) #(.getMonthValue %) #(.getDayOfMonth %) )
does the job, but it doenst look pretty. Is there a shorcut for this like the ..?
((juxt .getYear .getMonthValue .getDayOfMont))
Will not compile, because these are not clojure functions, right?

delaguardo14:02:50

you could also make a dedicated namespace for function that suppose to deal with some specific Java classes.

bronsa14:02:24

right, you can use memfn but it's not worth it IMO

bronsa14:02:31

#() is your best choice

Christian14:02:56

If I had a lot of code that calls juxt with java methods, would this be a valid reason to write a macro that behaves like the original juxt?

Mno14:02:18

well you don’t need to make a macro… I think

Christian14:02:19

Or is it possible to do that with a function?

Mno14:02:03

(defn javajuxt [& fns]
  (apply juxt (map memfn fns))]))

Mno14:02:51

I have no idea if that’ll work 😅

delaguardo14:02:55

memfn is a macro, so it wouldn’t work in combination with map

Mno14:02:28

aaah.. ok that won’t work then.

Alex Miller (Clojure team)14:02:57

you have to be a little careful around this kind of thing to avoid reflection

Alex Miller (Clojure team)14:02:19

but really, it's probably the most straightforward to just do what you're doing

bronsa14:02:16

it'd have to be a macro since .foo is not a first class thing but it's syntax

bronsa14:02:32

but... really #() is not bad :)

Mno14:02:03

if you really dislike it would wrapping the ones that you use a lot with clojure fns work? (defn get-year [obj] (.getYear obj))

Alex Miller (Clojure team)14:02:19

people have written wrappers that do this kind of thing across big chunks of api but you're just adding layers and layers have cost

Mno14:02:15

Cool, that’s good to keep in mind. Thanks!

Mno16:02:04

today I learned what a Java Bean is. Thanks dude.

afry14:02:07

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Daniel Stephens16:02:57

looks interesting, good luck!

afry17:02:50

Welp, the stream crashed halfway through 😬 But at any rate, if you're interested in joining hopefully it'll behave next time!

Daniel Stephens17:02:48

👍 will try to pop in, interested to see what ideas you come up with!

sova-soars-the-sora05:02:26

hey I noticed when you started this, I think I got wind of it via the reddit/clojure channel... Love the ambition. Glad you're doing it and streaming it! 😃

haywood16:02:35

anyone familiar with how to deal with calling io/resource on a resource directory?

haywood16:02:27

closest I’ve come is doing (io/file (str (io/resourece "path")))

haywood16:02:02

but the str call returns a path prefixed with file: that io/file doesn’t like, I could regex that bit out of the string but that seems bad

dpsutton16:02:20

ignore all code and say what you want to happen. "i want to get all the files in my resources directory", "i need the edn from resources/foo.edn" or something like that

haywood16:02:25

right on, you nailed it really “i want to get all the files in a resources sub-directory”

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:26

this is not a thing you can generically do with resources

teachtyler16:02:16

🌊👋 I'm new to cljs, so i've been working on a template fork for others and myself down the road, that is currently in a protect-your-eyes state, so any feedback would be appreciated 😅 https://github.com/teachtyler/Fraction

dpsutton16:02:11

i'm not finding any good way to do this. I believe just like java packages, in a jar there is no hierarchy or container. just "addresses" that share a prefix. "resources/foo/bar" and "resources/foo/quux". we can "see" a hierarchy but there's no node containing the two

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:25

directories are not a resource thing, they're a file thing

haywood16:02:57

the resource returns the path which is really all I need, but it’s got this file: prefix which I can just remove

haywood16:02:16

io/file doesn’t like that type of file url

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:53

you pass the path to resource - why use resource at all?

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:34

resources are a generic feature and classloaders can provide them from an open set of "places"

haywood16:02:37

I only know the path relative to the resources directory, so I pass the relative path to io/resource

haywood16:02:06

using io/resource shields the differences between my local machine and the jar in a docker image

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:26

it does, but you give up the concept of directories or "all things in a directory"

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:49

you just have resources, which have paths, no notion of resource container

Alex Miller (Clojure team)16:02:26

you're loading resources from the classpath, which includes all the jars as well

dpsutton16:02:17

if you know you'll have files, use just a path to make files. If you lose the filesystem because of packaging into a jar, returns a url which is handy as well: (slurp (io/resource "my-thing")) will yield the contents of the file

caumond20:02:41

Hi guys, I want to use reveal with leiningen, and for me it was not straightforward. As I'm not a leiningen expert, could you all check my proposal to @vlaaad. Reveal need to launch a repl function, I used the :repl-options { :init ...} option . @vlaaad, I did not find how to contribute directly to your website, a few lines in that readme I suggest you add in your tutorial: https://gitlab.com/caumond/reveal-lein-tuto

Stuart21:02:00

There is #reveal :)

caumond21:02:29

Lol, a REVEALation !

seancorfield21:02:06

@U018QDQGZ9Q FYI, https://github.com/vlaaad/vlaaad.github.io is the website repo (in general, you'll find <username>/<username>.http://github.io is the repo behind any github-hosted website.

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caumond21:02:06

Cool, I'll suggest a direct contribution then !

seancorfield21:02:30

This is the file that contains the source of all the Reveal information I think https://github.com/vlaaad/vlaaad.github.io/blob/master/reveal.md

vlaaad21:02:47

sounds about right 🙂

Mario C.21:02:08

I am trying to add web-sockets into an application I am working on.  My general understanding of WS is that Client A establishes a connection to Server A and they can send messages to each other. The issue I am seeing with this type of architecture is that we have multiple stateless servers.  So if Server B receives a request to process some information, that Client A is expecting to get a notification via WS, how will Server B Push out a message to Client A if Server B has no connection with Client A.  Sticky sessions doesn’t seem like the solution since its another system that is making requests to our API which would trigger a notification message sent to the connected client. And any node can potentially receive that request.  Is there a way a server can ask “Hey, who is connected to client Y?” And then have the server that responds with “Hey, I am connected to that client!” Send out the notification via WS?

dpsutton21:02:12

did that at the last job. broadcast to the nodes please let user zzz know this message. one (and only one) of them had a connection open and fulfilled it. the rest looked, saw that client wasn't connected and just kept humming

Mario C.21:02:15

Do you have any links for this sort of thing? I am guessing this would require setting up some sort of messaging passing service or can this be done with pure clojure?

dpsutton21:02:56

yeah i was assuming your machines already had some queue they could all talk to. if so its pretty trivial. there's an atom of connected clients and a message of who to send to

dpsutton21:02:05

if no queue already you've got some plumbing to do

dgb2321:02:07

Likely a dumb question, but is it feasible to have a dedicated websocket node as a proxy?

dgb2321:02:22

(in your situation)

Mario C.21:02:50

No there is no queue set up at the moment. As far as a dedicated ws node, Im not familiar with that so I can't say to be honest. How would that work? Would the load balancer see that a client is trying to make a WS connection and then route the request to the dedicated server?

Mario C.21:02:57

Seems like at the end of the day it would sort of be the same situation, Some Node would need to send a message to the dedicated node. But honestly im not sure

Stuart21:02:21

Could rabbit mq work for you here? We have agents at my work that sit connected to rmq. Can send a message to a particular machine or many machines. You just need to setup your routing keys appropriately. If a machine is offline its messages will sit in its queue ready to be picked up when it reconnects.

dgb2321:02:36

I have to say I don’t quite have a complete picture in my mind. But it seems like you want a queue like the others suggested, since your services are behind a load balancer and you need some way to coordinate messages.

Mario C.21:02:15

Yea it looks like a message queue will be needed to accomplish this

Mario C.21:02:23

thanks guys

noisesmith23:02:49

since this is fire and forget, a distributed log / event system (which can be simpler than a queue) would work too

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sb21:02:05

(def custom-formatter (tf/formatter "yyyyMMddHHmm"))
  (l/to-local-date-time (tf/parse custom-formatter "202011141555")) >> works
  ; "Jul 12, 2020, 5:03:24 PM GMT+2"
  (def custom-eg-google (tf/formatter "MM dd, yyyy, hh:mm:ss aa zz"))
  (tf/parse custom-eg-google  "Jul 12, 2020, 5:03:24 PM GMT+2") >> not valid

sb21:02:32

What do I wrong with clj-time? at custom formatter “”MM dd, yyyy, hh:mm:ss aa zz”

Lennart Buit21:02:03

I would expect something around the timezone maybe. But thats a guess at best

sb21:02:07

Yes, i tried in several way. I read yoda time documentation about, but not clear (no example for this case).

Lennart Buit22:02:55

My eye fell on this piece of doc of Joda: > Zone names: Time zone names (‘z’) cannot be parsed. (Here: https://www.joda.org/joda-time/key_format.html )

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sb22:02:11

Yes, I read that before I post here.

sb22:02:58

I found a few example on the Github [not exact but good starter points], maybe first I check before I drop here the question.

seancorfield22:02:53

@sb Joda Time and clj-time are both deprecated, in favor of using Java Time (and, possibly, a Clojure wrapper library). Just FYI.

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sb22:02:57

Thanks the information! 👍 I don’t know that..

seancorfield23:02:26

The clj-time README talks about it and recommends some modern wrappers for Java Time to use instead.

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sb02:02:43

Yes, this is little bit painful. I solved without clj-time.. (I hope tick will have better documentation later.)

sova-soars-the-sora04:02:00

clj-time is so cool though... ;_;

seancorfield05:02:30

@U3ES97LAC Seriously? I mean, I'm one of the maintainers and I don't think there's anything "cool" about it...

sova-soars-the-sora05:02:35

yes i think it's awesome ... but the latest state-of-the-art recommendation is to use java-time via interop?

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seancorfield05:02:12

Or cljc.java-time or tick (although we use clojure.java-time at work because it was available first). Mostly we use interop.