why not just print/send your uris as strings?

you only need a reader tag if you want to read/interpret it in a particular 
way at read time in the client. do you want to do this?

D


On Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:20:53 UTC+11, Taylor Sando wrote:
>
> I am looking for a way to transfer URI objects from a clojure client to a 
> clojurescript client.  The printed representation of a java.net.URI object 
> is  #<URI "http//www.example.com>  The problem is that I can't read in 
> this data when it's structured like that.  For example, I'd like to be able 
> to pass this data strucutre to the client {:uri #<URI 
> http://www.google.com>}.  From my understanding, the extensible reader 
> needs something in the form of #symbol [value].  
>
> I know how to extend the clojurescript reader:
>
> (defn make-url [stuff]
>   (str (first stuff)))
>
> (reader/register-tag-parser! 'URI make-url)
>
> (assert (=  "http://www.google.com"; (reader/read-string "#URI [
> http://www.google.com]";)))
>
> I know that I could just map over the data structure and convert the uris 
> to strings, and then send that to the client, but it seems like there 
> should be a better way.
>

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