Thanks, that's what I was starting to converge on, basically relying on a
unique identifier for the prototype... but in trying to be flexible perhaps
a component "instance" would actually just be the search text for a more
comprehensive search which may in fact pull up several prototypes which the
user can select in more detail later on.
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 11:19:06 PM UTC-7, Jozef Wagner wrote:
>
> Assign a unique name to the prototype object. Serialize instances as
> map and put the reference to the prototype object under one of their
> keys. Something like
>
> {:prototype-components {:r10k {:resistance 10, :type :fixed, :unit :kΩ}}
> :components [{:name "resistor 1", :proto :r10k}, {:name "resistor 2",
> :proto :r10k}]}
>
> Jozef
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:36 PM, MS <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > I'm trying to write an EE schematic capture program in clojure. I'd
> like to
> > be able to define a prototype component, say a resistor with value=10k,
> then
> > be able to instantiate that many times, with each instance having an
> > additional property such as a name string. It's easy to ensure
> (identical?
> > (proto instance1) (proto instance2)) returns true while in-memory,
> however
> > I'm not sure how to write this out to disk.
> >
> > It seems the serialization libraries, print-dup, edn, etc., operate on
> > values, so reading the database back in won't guarantee it's really the
> same
> > object. I'd like to have the thing defined *once* then instantiated
> many
> > times, and have this captured in the on-disk version.
> >
> > Am I barking up the wrong tree? ie, given immutable data structures,
> > there's kind of no point in doing this. I'm actually trying to save
> disk
> > space, so I'd like to be able to refer in a few characters a potentially
> > large structure that was defined earlier. It would also be nice to have
> > this be human readable.
> >
> > Would one of the JSON serializers do this for me?
> >
> >
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