I highly suggest using transit. It's much faster and formally specified. https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format
It's issues like this that caused the creation of transit in the first place. On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Blake Miller <blak3mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have tried this with Clojure 1.7.0, 1.8.0 and 1.9.0-alpha10 > > (clojure.core/read-string (clojure.core/with-out-str (clojure.core/pr > (clojure.core/keyword "A valid keyword")))) ;; => :A > > This just seems wrong. It's valid to have an instance of > clojure.lang.Keyword with a space in its name. > > (clojure.core/with-out-str (clojure.core/pr (clojure.core/keyword "A valid > keyword"))) => ":A valid keyword" > > So, it seems like clojure.core/pr and clojure.core/read-string disagree > about EDN. > > Is EDN formally specified? https://github.com/edn-format/edn/issues/56 > seems to suggest it is not. > > I ran into this problem using ptaoussanis/sente to pass EDN over a > websocket. The EDN contained a keyword with a space in it, and the > clojure(jvm) part of sente had no problem serializing it, but the > ClojureScript part of sente barfed on it. I thought it was a bug in sente, > however sente simply calls clojure.core/pr to do the serialization... so I > played with pr vs read-string and found that they disagree. > > The serialization that clojure.core/pr does on a keyword with a space in > it seems broken to me: > > user> (clojure.core/with-out-str (clojure.core/pr {:onekey 1 > (clojure.core/keyword > "two key") 2})) > "{:onekey 1, :two key 2}" > > There doesn't seem to be any way to parse that unambiguously. > > I think this is a bug. What do you think? > > https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente/issues/251 > > -- > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- 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.