Thanks Brian, nice idea :)

I also added load/save functionality from the atom when reloading the 
environment in development.


On Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 2:57:56 PM UTC+3, Brian Platz wrote:
>
> In a web-app you probably want the thread safety an atom provides, so it 
> would be a good choice.
>
> You can include a reference to your atom in your system config if you want 
> to retain the reloaded-like / dependency injection pattern:
>
> (def changing-config (atom {}))
>
> ;; system-map
> (def sys-map
>  {:a "a"
>   :b 42
>   :c changing-config})
>
> (defn my-handler
>  [handler sys-map]
>  (fn [req] {:status 200 :body @(:c sys-map)}))
>
>
> On Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 2:16:32 PM UTC-4, babysnakes wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I don't have a lot of experience with clojure but I did write a few small 
>> services in clojure. Until now the state of the services I wrote were 
>> static so I constructed a system map (more or less following Stuart 
>> Sierra's reloaded workflow - without using the component framework) and 
>> injected it to the various handlers via middleware closure. This works 
>> great when the state is static. Now I have to write a small service where 
>> the state should be updated (I have to periodically pull new 
>> configurations). The first place I can think of to put this state is in a 
>> global atom, but I was wondering if there's a pattern that allows me to 
>> dynamically update global state without using global atom.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Haim
>>
>

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