Added a step-wise 'Getting Started' tutorial. Plan to add more in-depth documentation soon: https://github.com/runa-dev/clj-schema/wiki/Getting-Started
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Alex Baranosky < alexander.barano...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stathis, > > Thanks for your interestin clj-schema. If you use it and have any feedback > please let me know. > > clj-schema is released under the MIT license: http://mit-license.org/ > > I think TypedClojure is really cool. I'm excited about both approaches > because in general I'm very interested in approaches to coding that help us > ensure that our code works correctly. That said there are some interesting > differences in the approaches: > > - schemas can be used for other things other than validation or type > checking. > > > - schemas are more decoupled from the code. Say you are reading a map > out of a file, or get a map returned from another library. With schemas > you could easily validate the map. How would that be handled in a > TypeClojure approach? Also, schema validation only checks at a snapshot in > time; it makes no effort to ensure that that map is always correct. > > > - schema validation happens at run-time; TypedClojure is a static > analysis tool. ( Of course, if there was some kind of adapter for > TypedClojure it could take schemas as params to the type declarations.) > > > Alex > > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Stathis Sideris <side...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello Alex, >> >> This looks very useful, thanks. What's the license under which you are >> releasing this code? Also, I'm wondering whether something like that could >> be the next step for Typed Clojure. From Ambrose's thesis, I got the >> impression that he would like Typed Clojure to eventually cater for >> checking the contents of maps. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Stathis >> >> >> On Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:22:04 UTC, Alex Baranosky wrote: >>> >>> Clj-schema is a library for defining and validating schemas for maps, as >>> well as for using those schemas to create valid test data. We've been >>> using this in production for at least a few months now, at Runa. >>> >>> https://github.com/runa-dev/**clj-schema<https://github.com/runa-dev/clj-schema> >>> >>> The main benefits I've found from using this library are: >>> * validating the inputs to the application: validating Ring request >>> params and config files >>> * validating before storing maps into the DB >>> * using the clj-schema.fixtures library to create valid test data that >>> stays valid. So as the standard form of a map changes over time the tests >>> will stay in sync with those changes automatically. >>> * there are some code-readability benefits as well - any developer can >>> pretty quickly see what certain kinds of maps tend to look like. >>> >>> There's more info in the README: >>> https://github.com/runa-dev/**clj-schema/blob/master/README.**md<https://github.com/runa-dev/clj-schema/blob/master/README.md> >>> >>> Future possibilities: >>> * auto-generating test data from clj-schema fixtures >>> * being able to create schemas for sets and sequences (currently a >>> schema is always for a map) >>> >>> Contributors welcome. >>> >>> Alex >>> >> -- >> 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 > > > -- 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
