You can absolutely run an nREPL server from a mostly-Java application.
Something like this would do (just a sketch, untested):
////
private static IFn startServer, stopServer;
static {
try {
RT.var("clojure.core",
"require").invoke(Symbol.intern("clojure.tools.nrepl.server"));
startServer = RT.var("clojure.tools.nrepl.server", "start-server");
stopServer = RT.var("clojure.tools.nrepl.server", "stop-server");
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
public static Object startServer (int port) {
return startServer.invoke(Keyword.intern("port"), port);
}
public static void stopServer (Object server) {
stopServer.invoke(server);
}
////
There's already a thin Java wrapper for the nREPL client API
(https://github.com/clojure/tools.nrepl/blob/master/src/main/java/clojure/tools/nrepl/Connection.java);
one for the server side would be good to cover that use case as well.
- Chas
On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Stathis Sideris wrote:
> It sounds great Chas, especially the wide acceptance that nREPL seems
> to already have with the various tools.
>
> I wanted to ask about the potential of this as an embedded Clojure
> REPL in existing Java applications for the purpose of connecting
> remotely and performing inspection (and possibly manipulation?) of the
> current state of the application for debugging purposes. Is this a
> legitimate use case? How easy do you think it would be to achieve this
> with the current version of nREPL?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stathis
>
>
> On Feb 14, 2:42 pm, Chas Emerick <c...@cemerick.com> wrote:
>> I have released nREPL 0.2.0-beta1, which should show up in Maven central
>> soon.
>>
>> For those that don't know, nREPL is "a Clojure network REPL that provides a
>> REPL server and client, along with some common APIs of use to IDEs and other
>> tools that may need to evaluate Clojure code in remote environments":
>>
>> https://github.com/clojure/tools.nrepl
>>
>> This release is the result of gathering ideas, feedback, and requirements
>> from dozens of people that need to have a REPL backend in a variety of
>> environments, and want to maximize interoperability of Clojure tooling —
>> much of which inevitably ends up grounding out at running or connecting to a
>> REPL somewhere.
>>
>> This release marks a thorough breaking change from every aspect the last
>> release of nREPL, 0.0.5. (The rationale for this is detailed in design
>> notes in the project's wiki, for those that haven't followed along.) The
>> result is that a design that settles a number of failings of nREPL's
>> original design, and which provides a number of different vectors of
>> extensibility — similar in many respects to those provided by Ring — that I
>> hope people will take advantage of to build astonishingly cool tools.
>>
>> Note that pre-release versions of many Clojure tools are already using
>> snapshots of nREPL 0.2.0, including Counterclockwise, Leiningen, and Reply,
>> and as far as I know, more are on their way.
>>
>> My plans for the near future are to continue to tighten up the
>> documentation, and release an HTTP transport: a Ring handler that exposes
>> nREPL as an HTTP API.
>>
>> If you have any questions or find some shortcoming, bug, or problem with
>> this release, please reply here or ping me on irc or twitter (`cemerick` in
>> either case).
>>
>> Happy tooling,
>>
>> - Chas
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