How to get a value of a var in Java

[ru]

Dear Clojure users and team!

Citation 1 from Clojure documentation:

"Calling Clojure From Java..

IFn plus = Clojure.var("clojure.core", "+"); 

plus.invoke(1, 2);.."

With functions all well but with def..

Citation 2:

"(def symbol doc-string? init?)

Creates and interns or locates a global var with the name of symbol and a namespace of the value of the current namespace (*ns*). "

I can not figure out how to get the value of the symbol, created with def construct in Clojure and, for example, print it with System.out.println in Java.

I tried everything, nothing works! :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

  Ru

[Alex Ott]

does this answer your q: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2181774/calling-clojure-from-java/2182608#2182608 ?

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[ru]

Thanx Alex!

Alas, with defn it works, with def - not! :(

пятница, 18 июня 2021 г. в 15:31:03 UTC+3, Alex Ott:

[Chris Nuernberger]

Vars extend IDeref so one way to get the value of a var is to call .deref on it:

user> (def a)
#'user/a
user> (defn ab [] 1)
#'user/ab
user> (.deref (clojure.lang.RT/var "user" "a"))
2
user> (.deref (clojure.lang.RT/var "user" "ab"))
#function[user/ab]

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[ru]

Can you please rewrite your example in Java, that I can try it?

By the way, can you give a reference on javadoc in witch IDeref class documented? 

Thanks in advance.

пятница, 18 июня 2021 г. в 16:17:36 UTC+3, ch...@techascent.com:

[Gary Verhaegen]

The official Clojure API for Java is defined here and only supports importing Clojure vars under the IFn interface. In other words, you can only import Clojure functions, not Clojure values, through that API. What you are trying to do is not supported.

That does not mean it's impossible. If you control the Clojure side, the easiest approach is to just make a function and call that through the official API. If for some reason that's not an option, you can try gen-class, which may be faster.

If you can't change the Clojure side, you'll have to use undocumented APIs. The Clojure.var call will return a Var (cast to the IFn interface), which has a deref() method that should get you the underlying value. This is undocumented so it may break and all that, but it really looks like all you need to do is cast that IFn back to a Var (or an IDeref, as Chris suggested).

Overall, I'd strongly recommend going through the documented API and just add a no-arg function.

[ru]

Thank you, Gary, for the comprehensive answer. I have a control over Clojure side, so I decide to add special functions to get values of needed vars.

Thanks to all for the help.

Best regards,

  Ru

пятница, 18 июня 2021 г. в 20:23:31 UTC+3, gary.ve...@gmail.com:

[Justin Smith]

>  Clojure vars under the IFn interface. In other words, you can only import Clojure functions, not Clojure values, through that API.

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[Justin Smith]

(sorry, hit reply too soon)

[Justin Smith]

anyway - vars implement IFn, as far as I can see there's no real problem here, you can deref the var object and it just happens to also implement IFn

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