does anyone know of a clojure/java equivalent to this : https://github.com/jimbojsb/emogrify (inline css into html for emails)

@cmdrdats: i don’t, but tweet it and i’ll RT

@robert-stuttaford: thanks - done

ditto

Is there a decent java/clojure way to get the directory from a file path?

All the methods I can find seem to rely on the file already existing.

I need to create the directory prior to creating the file..

have you checked the api ref for http://clojure.java.io, stephen?

@robert-stuttaford: Yeah. I can't find much there..

i believe you use .exists on a File object to check for existence

also, there’s always regex

Well I know it doesn't exist..

But there may be some other properties in java.io.file that could help

Ah yes.. I've been here before. There is getPath but this returns the filename as well.

I guess it's regex.

@stephen: You can’t tell which part is or isn’t a directory without asking the filesystem

Well I can with some simple string manipulation.

I was just wondering if there was a more idiomatic way.

Not really. What is the directory of “/tmp"

I would have thought if that was passed to the File object it could assume tmp would be the filename - / would be the directory.

@stephen: But that’s not really true. / is the parent, sure but "tmp" is the filename and it is a directory (on my system). You can’t really be sure unless you ask the filesystem.

Which, if the parent is what you need, (.getParent file) will give it to you.

Yes I can see it is complicated.

Shouldn't it really fail if you pass a directory to a File object..

Ah yes getParent does what I need!

A directory is a file on *nix

Really?

I guess just about everything is a file at some level

Well, yeah, loosely speaking

any pedestal users around?

@robert-stuttaford: I likely will be one in a month or two

(and I read their docs a bunch)

i’ve come right

their docs really need work 😐

yeah 😞

There was a discussion on the clojure mailinglist about the docs.

I think the gist of it was that the samples were better than the docs

https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal/tree/master/samples

yeah. a sample got me out of the trouble i was in

i think if all they did was remove all the no-longer-relevant stuff, that’d be a big step forward

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.clojure.user/94298

is the reply from Paul deGrandis regarding the docs.

thanks for sharing that

wasn’t aware of http://pedestal.github.io/pedestal/

Do you guys ever use emmet to make hiccup with "|hic" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9657879 [disclaimer: emacs only afaik]

What’s the general consensus on .m2/repository maintenance? I’ve been burning it down every month or so just to, uh, decruftify it.

i’ve never touched it

only 902mb

Yeah, it never gets excessive. I just like these sorts of acts of general maintenance.

sometimes you need to do things in ~/.m2

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16866978/maven-cant-find-my-local-artifacts

the _maven.repositories file sometimes causes really hard to debug dependency resolution errors

this only is a problem if you use different repos that might contain the same coordinates

akiva: if you don't use lein install (and deploy to repos instead) burning down m2 isn't really called for

stephan: for creating the directory a file needs, there's (.mkdirs f) which creates all directories a given file needs