how can I coerce the numeric values sent in a request to come in as numbers and not strings?

@yogthos: hey there, would you happen to know? ^

@thug.nasty: the best way would be to use compojure-api

when you specify a parameter as s/Num it will be automatically coerced

@yogthos: would I then add this to my defroutes entry?

clj 
  (POST "/" request
        :params [a :- Num,
                 b :- Num,
                 c :- Num]
        (process-request! request))

Yeah should look something like that, I believe you have to specify the type of params, e.g: :query-params

In regular compojure you can also do [x :<< as-int] . as-int is defined in compojure.coercions

i have a lot of form parameters that appear in two different maps

if I want to keep the map format, do I destructure it as a map with values of specific types?

also, how do I refer to the request that has had the values coerced?

also, do I need to specify the types of all values in the map, or just the ones I want changed?

this is what I’ve done: http://pastebin.com/awmV9cHy

I’ve tried creating a schema, and seeing if that worked

I’m obviously doing something wrong

Quick question re: templating: I'm using hiccup, but trying to combine it with selmer in order to take advantage of the generated templates. So I'm writing a fn that lets you substitute html-ized hiccup into your html-ized selmer, using string/replace. The problem is that, having done that, newlines end up rendering as literal \n on the page. Is there some standard luminus/selmer/hiccup way to get around that? Or is it just a Bad Idea to call string functions on the output of (render template)?

Never mind, (s/replace s "\\n" "\n") was sufficient.