The URIs are coming from a datomic database that actually stores the values
as java.net.URIs. All I'm doing is transferring the query values from the
database to the client. The server uses pr-str before sending back the
results, and the client uses reader/read-string to get the results.
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 7:35:31 PM UTC-6, Dave Sann wrote:
>
> 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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