@seancorfield nice. I went with the stdin approach given that JSON is going to be nye impossible to trust as a bash arg.

@cjsauer In bash’s defence, it should work fine when passing the arg as JSON to a -M -m invocation. The extra quoting required by the EDN parsing of -X is what makes this hard. In Clojure CLI’s defense, it can make other things easy ;-).

Perhaps the clojure CLI can have some convention to prevent the argument from being parsed as EDN. E.g.:

clojure -X foo/bar :foo 1 :bar @$(.. some json here ...)

you know where to make requests... :)

Before making requests, hearing a firm :face_vomiting: , no, or such can save me time ;)

But a "hmm, not a bad idea, will consider, could you make an ask" will be enough for me to create one :)

I'll take your reply as the latter.

willing to consider :)

Asked: https://ask.clojure.org/index.php/11585/consider-convention-for-bypassing-edn-parsing-in-x-usage

I would be super happy if this got addressed!

Yeah, like most folks, I too prefer to ping on Slack for a :face_vomiting: or reaction before investing time in crafting a more formal issue or request.

I may have found a nicer convention as the leading character:

$ clojure -X foo/bar :foo /dude :bar '"dude"' ;;=> (foo/bar {:foo "dude" :bar "dude"})

can you put suggestions on the ask question please?