Hi all, I'm curious about the options for managing APIs in Clojure code in a relatively idiomatic / consistent / functional way. The features I'm roughly interested in are: - ability to "wrap" a remote API in a regular Clojure function - abstraction away from the details of how the API is implemented (REST, SOAP etc.) - sane handling for both async and synchronous calls (ideally building on core.async) - possible serialisation of API references (e.g. you can send an API function to another machine that can then call it) - sane default handling for standard stuff like timeouts, errors etc?
I'm thinking of syntax roughly like: (defapi foo :call (fn [x] (do-rest-call "http://some.host/api/foo"; x other-param)) :timeout 1000 :async true :on-error (fn [ex] (handle-exception ex))) => [an API object, probably a defrecord-like structure that implements IFn] (foo "hello") => core.asyc channel that returns result of calling foo API ((sync foo) "hello") => result of synchronously calling foo API (async? foo) => true ((modify foo {:timeout 100}) "quick hello") => like (foo "hello") but with a shorter timeout Has anyone built or seen anything like this? If not, would this be a useful library / contrib? -- -- 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.
