Howdy,
I'm a clojure fan but quite new to writing clojure. I'm writing my first
app and had a few style questions.
I'm doing a web service call to the lastfm api. It returns some json like:
{
"results": {
"albummatches": {
"album": [
{
"name": "In The Future",
"artist": "Black Mountain",
"image": [{
"size": "small",
"#text": "http://example.com/image/url.jpg";
}]
}
]
}
}
}
One notes is that the 'album' key in the json can either be missing (0
results) a map itself (1 result) or the array (2+ results).
I then want to turn it into structure like:
{
"albums": [{
"name": "In The Future",
"artist": "Black Mountain",
"images": {
"small": "http://example.com/image/url.jpg";
}
}]
}
Here is the clojure code I came up with:
(defn- transform-album-images [images]
(into {} (map (fn [image] [(:size image) (:#text image)]) images)))
(defn- transform-album [album]
(let [album (select-keys album [:name :artist :image])
album (update-in album [:image] transform-album-images)
album (clojure.set/rename-keys album { :image :images })]
album))
(defn search [term]
(let [albums (api/get {:method "album.search" :album term})
albums (get-in albums [:results :albummatches :album] [])
albums (if (vector? albums) albums (vector albums))
albums (map transform-album albums)]
{:albums albums}))
My main question is whether this is at all 'idomatic' clojure. I have a
few specific questions too.
- I broke out two functions -- transform-album-images and transform-album
-- because I wasn't sure how to squeeze them into the first function. They
really have no purpose outside of the 'search' function though. I don't
know why, but it kinda bugs me because it seems to detract from the main
function 'search' as they have to appear above 'search'.
- the (api/get ...) call talks to an external webservice. Everything else
is a 'pure' function. Is including the (api/get) call inside the 'search'
function bad? I'm a bit hazy on the write split from pure / non-pure code.
I feel like transforming data between two representations with a side
effect at each end is like 90% of code I write so I'd like to get a good
feel for doing this in clojure :)
Thanks for any tips.
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