Either you misunderstood my question or I misunderstood your answer.
I don't want the entire expression to return nil. I only want the
_unparsable_ part to return nil.
Thus, the above answer should be
{:tag :message
:chan ni}
rather than
nil
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Luc Prefontaine <
lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> wrote:
> Wrap the read in a try catch just return nil in the catch clause
> for this specific exception and wrap it in a function for ease
> of use. You might want to throw up any other exceptions and
> only catch this one....
>
> Luc P.
>
>
> > I should add: this problem arises due to cljs / clojure talking over the
> > network, so:
> >
> > (*) not using serialization is NOT an option
> >
> > (*) however, I don't have to use edn/read-string + pr-str
> >
> > (*) it's perfectly fine to use different encoding/decoding methods
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:11 AM, t x <txrev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Right now if I do (clojure.edn/read-string ...) on a string with a
> > > unreadable part, I get an exception. Instead, I would like to just get
> nil.
> > > For example:
> > >
> > >
> > > ## code
> > >
> > > (clojure.edn/read-string
> > > (pr-str
> > > {:tag :message
> > > :chan (async/chan 10)}))
> > >
> > > ## currently returns
> > >
> > > java.lang.RuntimeException: Unreadable form
> > > at clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:219)
> > >
> > >
> > > ## instead, I would like:
> > >
> > > {:tag :message
> > > :chan :nil}
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a way to make this happen?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
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