On 18 October 2015 at 23:54, Timur <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there anyway to call an object member using its symbol?
>
> For instance we have an object o, we get the symbol of a method, e.g.,
> toString, of our object o using clojure.reflect/reflect and and I want to
> execute this method on this object through the symbol.
>
> For instance *(. obj sym)* throws an exception. Here symbol for instance
> contains toString
>
> Any ideas about how I can do this?
>
eval is probably the most straightforward way to achieve this:
(eval `(. ~obj ~sym))
I'm uncertain of the performance of this compared to using the Java
reflection API, but it's a lot easier to write.
- James
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