Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look at prismatic/schema. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Jason Wolfe <ja...@w01fe.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if this would meet your need (it doesn't help with your > proximate defrecord issue), but if you're primarily interested in > documentation and validation you could consider prismatic/schema [1] as a > translation target, and just represent your data with maps. > > [1] https://github.com/Prismatic/schema > > > On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:47:35 PM UTC-7, Vincent Chen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have in my hands an XML description of data structures that I want >> to mechanically translate into Clojure. There are <struct> and >> <typedef> elements, with <struct> being similar to structs in C (list >> of fields) and <typedef> being similar to typedef in C (defining new >> name for already defined <struct>s). >> >> I model <struct>s using Clojure records, but I'm not sure how to refer >> to them with a new name when it comes to <typedef>s. Given the >> following specification: >> >> <struct name="foo"> >> <field name="a"/> >> <field name="b"/> >> </struct> >> >> <typedef oldname="foo" newname="bar"> >> >> I would create records: >> >> (defrecord foo [a b]) >> (defrecord bar [a b]) >> >> The problem is that struct foo and typedef bar lives in different >> namespaces, i.e. I don't have foo's specification when I encounter >> typedef bar. What I'd like to do is (def bar some-ns/foo), but what >> about ->foo and map->foo? >> >> So should I: >> - (def bar some-ns/foo) (def ->bar some-ns/->foo) (def map->bar >> some-ns/map->foo), while hoping that Clojure doesn't extend records >> syntax/capabilities in the future? >> - Use something else than records to model structs (suggestions welcome)? >> - Other? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Vincent > > -- > -- > 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.
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