What am I doing wrong here? I want to call clojure.string/lower-case on the :incoming-message of this-users-conversation. If there is no message, I return an empty string.
(defn discern-current-state [this-users-conversation] (cond (= (clojure.string/lower-case (get this-users-conversation :incoming-message "")) "yes") (assoc this-users-conversation :current-state :salesforce-write) and yet the error points to the above line: java.lang.NullPointerException {:class java.lang.NullPointerException, :message nil, :trace-elems ({:anon-fn false, :fn "lower-case", :ns "clojure.string", :clojure true, :file "string.clj", :line 215} {:anon-fn false, :fn "discern-current-state", :ns "nlph.event-bus", :clojure true, :file "event_bus.clj", :line 92} but of course, at the REPL, everything works as I would expect: (def users {:message "hello"}) #'nlph.core/users nlph.core=> (clojure.string/lower-case (get users :message)) "hello" nlph.core=> (clojure.string/lower-case (get users :message "")) "hello" nlph.core=> (clojure.string/lower-case (get users :lisa)) NullPointerException clojure.string/lower-case (string.clj:215) nlph.core=> (clojure.string/lower-case (get users :lisa "")) "" nlph.core=> (clojure.string/lower-case (get users :lisa)) NullPointerException clojure.string/lower-case (string.clj:215) -- 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/d/optout.