If you're not planning on changing the value of your defined index, you can always use partial, e.g.:
(def search (partial es/search es-index)) On 9 September 2013 09:42, Mark Mandel <mark.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Relatively new to Clojure, and I'm wondering if there is a better/simpler > way to handle what I'm doing. > > I'm working with the Elastisch library for interacting with ElasticSearch, > and it has the following function: > http://reference.clojureelasticsearch.info/clojurewerkz.elastisch.rest.document.html#var-search > > (search index mapping-type & {:as options}) > > That's all fine, except I want to call it from another function, to provide > my default values for `index`, but still allow for the passthrough the > options map for the `search` function. > > The solution I came up with was: > > (defn search > "Search the mapping-type, with the given properties" > [mapping-type & {:as options}] > (apply esd/search (reduce (fn [coll [k, v]] (conj coll k v)) [es-index > mapping-type] options))) > > Where `es-index` is already defined as a global def. > > So basically I break the options apart into a vector, and apply it over the > top of the esd/search function (where esd is the elastisch function defined > earlier). > > Does this make sense? Is there a better way? > > It works, but wondering if there is an improvement I could make, especially > as I could see myself doing this quite often. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
