ballpark depending on your use case JWT might not be secure: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-for-sessions/

I’m having a hard time getting transactions to work In database/core.clj I have something like this: (defstate ^:dynamic db :start (conman/connect! {:jdbc-url (env :database-url)}) :stop (conman/disconnect! db)) (conman/bind-connection db "sql/eventstore.sql") (defn within-transaction [operation] (conman/with-transaction [db] (do operation db)))

And is a separate file I have (db/within-transaction (fn[trn-conn] (append-to-event-stream trn-conn events))) where I explicitly specify the connection to every DB operation. But it seems that nothing ever gets persisted

All (easy) examples I can find start transactions in functions within database/core.clj but not in other files.

Can’t seem to get this working. Either records get persisted, but when an exception occurs, nothing gets reverted OR nothing gets persisted at all in a happy path scenario

could you try using the regular clojure.java.jdbc with-db-transaction instead. You'd just have to pass the transactional connection to the query functions using it.

Yes, that does seem to do the trick

Also moving conman/with-transaction to the separate file seems to work as well

(conman/with-transaction [db] (append-to-event-stream aggregate-id aggregate-version events))

This was it doesn’t seem to be necessary to pass in the individual connection to the query functions

yeah I think it's the problem with the way the conman with-transaction macro is setup

It would be nice if somehow this could work: (defn within-transaction [operation] (conman/with-transaction [db] (do operation)))

Without passing a transactional connection. This would mean that it would somehow be picked up automagically.

Not sure if that would work though

I’m still a the noob level with the Luminus template

so this is what with-transaction looks like:

(defmacro with-transaction [args & body]
  `(clojure.java.jdbc/with-db-transaction [t-conn# ~(first args) ~@(rest args)]
     (binding [~(first args) t-conn#]
       ~@body)))