Cool, just what I needed Alan. Thanks for the help.
On Feb 16, 4:30 pm, Alan Dipert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, > I think what you're looking for is > line-seq:http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.co... > > In your code, if you pass *in* to line-seq, you'll get back a seq of lines > (the request headers). Incidentally, I first ran into line-seq in the > course of writing a Clojure web server as a first project. You can see > line-seq in action on line 52 of this gist, inside the 'handle-request' > function:http://gist.github.com/203329 > > I'm pretty new to Clojure myself so there might be a better way. Hope > this helps, > > Alan > > Excerpts from Matt Culbreth's message of 2010-02-16 16:17:57 -0500: > > > > > Hello Group, > > > I'm writing a web server in Clojure and I'd love to have a bit of help > > on a function I have. > > > This function (and athttp://gist.github.com/305909) is used to read > > the HTTP request from a client and to then act on it: > > > (defn handle-request > > [in out] > > (binding [*in* (BufferedReader. (InputStreamReader. in))] > > (let [client-out (OutputStreamWriter. out)] > > (loop [lines []] > > (let [input (read-line)] > > (if > > (= (.length input) 0) > > ;; 0 length line means it's time to serve the > > resource > > (println lines) > > ;; add to the lines vector and keep going > > ;; note it makes the incoming request reversed > > (recur (cons input lines)))))))) > > > The code works fine; I've left out the bit that actually does > > something and replaced it with a println call. It's not very > > functional feeling though. The loop/recur and the building of a list > > seems very imperative to me. I'd much rather use something from > > clojure.contrib.io, probably using read-lines or something. > > > Thanks for looking and for any suggestions! > > > Matt > > -- > Alan Diperthttp://alan.dipert.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
