Howto override toString of defrecord instances in ClojureScript?

[r0man]

Hello,

what's the preferred way to override the toString method of a
ClojureScript record? I could use set! to change the toString fn
of a record after it has been initialized like this:

(defrecord MyRecord [name])

(let [record (MyRecord. "Hello World")]
  (set! record.toString (fn [] (:name (js* "this"))))
  (str record))

But I wonder if there is something more idiomatic? Can I change
the toString method in the prototype of the record directly? How
do get the prototype?

Thank you, Roman.

[Baishampayan Ghose]

> what's the preferred way to override the toString method of a
> ClojureScript record? I could use set! to change the toString fn
> of a record after it has been initialized like this:
>
> (defrecord MyRecord [name])
>
> (let [record (MyRecord. "Hello World")]
>   (set! record.toString (fn [] (:name (js* "this"))))
>   (str record))

Not unlike Clojure, you can extend ClojureScript types to Object & nil as well.

So you can do something like this -

(defrecord MyRecord [name]
Object
(toString [_] name))

Regards,
BG

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Baishampayan Ghose
b.ghose at gmail.com

[r0man]

Thank you, Baishampayan. That's exactly what I was looking for ...