Ah OK, I didn't realise I needed to get into Java interop. For education - can you (or anyone) explain me as to why what I was trying didn't work?
Thanks Ambrose. On 6 August 2014 11:50, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant < abonnaireserge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Colin, > > If you must call the Java constructor, you need reflection. > > user=> (defrecord B [c]) > user.B > user=> (def s "user.B") > #'user/s > user=> (.newInstance (first (.getDeclaredConstructors (Class/forName s))) > (object-array [1])) > #user.B{:c 1} > > Thanks, > Ambrose > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> tldr; if I have a (defrecord MyRecord) in ns a.b.c and I have a string >> "a.b.c.MyRecord" how I can invoke (a.b.c.MyRecord.) (or (new >> a.b.c.MyRecord)? >> >> I thought this was going to be as simple as (defn cfn "a.b.c.MyRecord") >> ((symbol cfn).) but that throws an ArityException: wrong number of args (0) >> passed to Symbol. I >> >> I have a protocol with a number of implementations. Each installation >> will have a single implementation and will chose one based on an >> environment variable. At runtime I need to look at that environment >> variable which defines the fully qualified implementation of a protocol. I >> then need to instantiate that record. >> >> Architecturally equivalent to a simple plugin system. I could alias them >> all but that requires knowing about all the implementations which is a >> no-go. >> >> This is where I feel the pain of not having OSGi :). >> >> Thanks all! >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/fp7I-zAuu2c/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.