One of the things I'm doing in my application is I modified clj-record to attach metadata about the record's type to each record when find- records is used. I am then able to have a function that checks that metadata which can be used as a predicate.
It gets even better because I can then write multi-methods that dispatch on the type of record I have. You will have to take care that your multimethods will only work if you have the metadata attached, so you'll have to take care to with-meta any records you create yourself. my fork of clj-record is on github On Sep 24, 2009, at 4:14 AM, Miron Brezuleanu wrote: > > Hello, > > is there a way to check if a data structure complies to a given > schema? (e.g. people is a vector of persons). > > I'm using C# a lot and maybe the static typing has changed the way I > think. I feel like adding "type checks" in unit tests and being able > to say something like: > > (is-type (people (vector person))) > > sounds like a neat way to check types (I know 'vector' is a 'taken' > name, I'm just trying to illustrate the kind of syntax I'm thinking > about). The degree of typing can be varied (i.e. a person is any map > with a :name key, or any map with only a :name key, or any map with a > :name key which is nil or string etc.) > > I browsed through clojure.test (which is clojure.contrib.test-is > integrated into Clojure, right?) but couldn't find something like > this. > > Thank you, > -- > Miron Brezuleanu > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
