You can check with `(clojure.lang.LockingTransaction/isRunning)` (the io! macro does this) but I'm not sure if it's considered a public API.
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/f6a90ff2931cec35cca0ca7cf7afe90ab99e3161/src/clj/clojure/core.clj#L2390 On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:53:11 UTC+1, Ragnar Dahlén wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > You are correct in that this involves close integration with the STM. The > agent implementation is aware of transactions and if a transaction is > running when dispatching an action, it will be enqneued in a special agent > action queue that STM implementation respects. > > AFAIK there is no public API for checking if a transaction is currently > running. > > See: > > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Agent.java#L249 > > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/LockingTransaction.java#L106 > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:26:11 UTC+1, William la Forge wrote: >> >> On this page http://clojure.org/agents I read the following: >> "Agents are integrated with the STM - any dispatches made in a >> transaction are held until it commits, and are discarded if it is retried >> or aborted." >> >> So there must be a way to tell if a dispatch is made from within a >> transaction. Yet I am looking here http://clojure.org/refs and can not >> find any such function. >> >> What then is the means of determining if you are processing a >> transaction, or is this something that involves close integration with STM? >> >> thanks! --Bill >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
