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Ben Sless14:09:11

Hi all, I'm trying to do some hacking on cider. How do I ensure the code I send to the REPL will get evaluated on the namespace of the file I'm in?

dpsutton14:09:05

when you eval in-line that happens automatically. the ns is sent along with the code form. the repl has a namespace and this is the ns that is used. i can't think of a good way to do this that also allows for input from a user.

dpsutton14:09:04

one suggestion would be to make a read only buffer that could contain the inputs and outputs to things that are evaluated in-line. so it would appear like a repl but only contain the inputs and outputs to cider's evaluating inline

dpsutton14:09:00

i suppose you could put stuff in the cider-send-to-repl to attempt to set the current ns to the file's ns

Ben Sless14:09:50

I'll describe what I'm trying to do, maybe it'll help clarify things: I thought it would be nice to add a cider-decompile interactive command, sort of like cider-macroexpand-1. For that I started my hacking around the cider-macroexpand.el file

Ben Sless14:09:13

The idea was to take the output and display it in a temporary buffer in java mode

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Ben Sless14:09:51

cider-macroexpand uses cider-nrepl-send-sync-request

dpsutton14:09:33

that sounds great.

Ben Sless14:09:55

It does, but cider-nrepl-send-sync-request doesn't eval in the current ns unlike cider-interactive-eval (?)

dpsutton14:09:37

send along the ns then

Ben Sless14:09:49

no harm in trying

dpsutton14:09:28

you can see how it sends that along. it sends the ns into cider-nrepl-request:eval. which just builds up a list like (("ns" whatever) ("code" "code to be evaluated") ....)

dpsutton14:09:53

there's a helper function nrepl--eval-request which builds all that up and the ns is threaded through

dpsutton14:09:12

would love to see a screenshot.

dpsutton15:09:32

that is super awesome!

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Ben Sless15:09:37

I'll prepare a PR?

dpsutton15:09:25

what dependencies does this require?

Ben Sless15:09:55

That's the next thing I was going to ask about šŸ™‚

Ben Sless15:09:00

it requires [com.clojure-goes-fast/clj-java-decompiler "0.3.0"]

Ben Sless15:09:31

so perhaps it should be an extra module, not part of core cider

dpsutton15:09:35

yeah this may just be a cool thing people can add. not sure if CIDER should depend on that

dpsutton15:09:08

perhaps the documentation could take this? A section on expanding and customizing CIDER and show how easy it can be to add new features like this

Ben Sless15:09:11

(transitively depends on [org.bitbucket.mstrobel/procyon-compilertools "0.5.34"])

Ben Sless15:09:01

Theoretically, there's a bigger feature here. The ability to take some arbitrary piece of code at point, wrap it in an expression, potentially parametrized over some variables, and evaluate that, instead

Ben Sless15:09:33

off the top of my head, it could be useful for profiling, benchmarking, decompiling, they all behave the same

Ben Sless15:09:39

That requires no extra dependencies, and introduces an easy extension point

dpsutton15:09:09

can you give an example? or the proposed change to CIDER? i'm not following as it seems you kinda used the building blocks already present. i'm assuming you constructed a handler using one of the handler functions and that took the response, opened a new buffer and made it java mode. and the eval you reused one of the existing functions or made a new one using a template more or less?

Ben Sless15:09:00

This isn't a big feature, more of a convenience where you'll need to plug in a few parameters: ā€¢ pre command ā€¢ wrap command ā€¢ output buffer name ā€¢ output buffer mode ā€¢ cider-jack-in extra dependencies ā€¢ command name ā€¢ command keys This can be exposed as a single function which will allow users to make small extensions to cider without modifying the core, even with extra dependencies

Ben Sless15:09:16

Just eval it as a hook after loading cider

Ben Sless16:09:56

In the meanwhile I threw my work https://github.com/bsless/clj-decompiler.el/blob/master/clj-decompiler.el, I'll add some README instructions, credits, etc. Hope you find it useful šŸ™‚

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Ben Sless16:09:41

Do I need to list any/all of the authors of cider-macroexpand.el in the copyright or authorship section? The file is loosely inspired by it.