I might follow up with a more thorough reply, but I had to drop Friend for the same reason I had to drop Liberator. Customizing the assumptions/defaults the libraries made was too default. Relatively simple content negotiation involved trying to do insane monkey-patches of Liberator's protocols or vendoring and rewriting of the library.
Whereas, plain ole' Ring middleware: https://github.com/bitemyapp/berossus/blob/master/src/berossus/rocks/your/data/middleware.clj#L44-L51 has worked out just dandy. I don't mind leveraging other peoples' code at all, but Liberator and Friend fall apart fairly quickly if you step outside their view of the universe even a little bit. On Monday, January 13, 2014 12:16:56 PM UTC-8, Alexandr Kurilin wrote: > > Disclaimer: I think what Friend is trying to do is super important and > cemerick rocks. > > However, I found Friend to be really difficult to grok the first time I > took a stab at it many months ago, perhaps I'm more capable of getting into > it now. My concern was that it is so broadly encompassing and there are too > few examples of how to use it in scenarios similar to the ones I face every > day. For example, I ended up rolling my own cookie-based role auth > middleware (relying on Ring's cookie store) in about 15 lines of clj, > significantly simpler for a basic scenario. > > By the way, it would be really neat if someone added a Friend chapter to > the upcoming Clojure Cookbook. I created an issue for it over 6 months ago > and nobody's taken it up so far, so I can't tell if most of the community > has given up on the library or if it's just too much of a hassle to explain > to others. > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Stefan Kamphausen > <ska...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:53:43 AM UTC+1, Sam Ritchie wrote: >>> >>> cemerick's Friend library is the way to do this: >>> >>> https://github.com/cemerick/friend >>> >>> I'm writing up a post on how to combine Friend with Liberator, for easy >>> ACL management for RESTful APIs. Take a look and let us know what you think! >>> >>> >> Can't wait to read that post. :) >> >> stefan >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Alexandr Kurilin > 206.687.8740 | @alex_kurilin <https://twitter.com/alex_kurilin> | > blog<http://www.kurilin.net> > -- -- 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.
