I use a default reader to do something like what you're asking for in my
'tagged' library.  You could hack a similar default reader that restricted
itself just to your favorite namespaces.  That way you don't have to
explicitly track all your defrecord classes.

https://github.com/miner/tagged




On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Michael Daines <defndai...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to come up with a function that will take a namespace
> containing Record definitions and convert it into a :readers map for EDN
> parsing. Right now, I'm just doing it manually, but as the number of
> records grows, this feels sillier and sillier. I haven't found anything in
> the core libraries yet that would seem to help me here. The only "ns-"
> function that gets me some of what I need is (ns-publics), which I could
> use to parse out the map functions.
>
> To be more clear, I have a namespace in the project like this:
>
> (ns proj.core.records)
>
> (defrecord NodeAddress [node address])
> (defrecord NodeComplete [node completed status)
> ... etc.
>
>
> Then at the end of the file, I'm manually creating a map for use with EDN:
>
> (def reader-map
>   {'proj.core.records.NodeAddress map->NodeAddress
>    ... etc. })
>
>
> I feel like there should be an elegant way to do this, but I haven't seen
> anything like what I have in mind. I'd love to put together a general
> purpose function I could use like this:
>
> (edn/read-string {:readers (reader-map 'proj.core.records)} data)
>
>
> Does anyone have some insights, or suggestions, or maybe something out
> there already (this seems to me like an obvious thing to do)?
>
> Thanks
>
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