passing AJAX data into template?

[Paul Lam]

How do I pass AJAX data (via cljs-http) into a deftemplate? Does that even make sense?

I'm probably doing this very wrong. I have a (deftemplate foo [data] ...). Then I'm just passing in the data as such:  (foo (get-some-data)), where get-some-data is my cljs-http.client/get call. The problem is that (get-some-data) keeps returning an object instead of the actual data.

I suppose I might need to manipulate an atom inside (get-some-data) instead of returning directly? If that's the case, how do I bind the atom to the `foo` template please?

Thanks a lot!

[ckirkendall]

If I recall cljs-http returns a core.async channel from its get operation.  It does this because the AJAX call is async by nature and doesn't return the data immediately when you make a call.  To get around this we use a 'go' block to read from the channel and push the data to the deftemplate.

(ns example.core

  (:require-macros [cljs.core.async.macros :refer [go]])

  (:require [cljs-http.client :as http]

            [cljs.core.async :refer [<!]]))

(defn get-some-data []

    (http/get ...)

(defn update-view [ch]

  (go (let [resp (<! ch))]

           (foo resp))))

(update-view (get-some-data))

Hope that helps.

Creighton

[Paul Lam]

yes, that worked. thank you!