Hi,
Currently, I am in the process of writing a client to server API which is not trivial to consume. In particular it needs a 3-step authentication process: login with user name and password, get an authentication token, open a session with the token and finally consume the API with the session. Sessions and tokens can expire and the client should handle that transparently: if it has a token, create a new session, if the token expired and it has username and password, create a new token... So, sessions and tokens would have to be local, mutable, encapsulated state, as far as I can see. Now; I wonder how to best model this in Clojure. My favorite right now is, creating a closure over a local atom and return it to the user. The downside to this is that it feels unnatural to consume different parts of the API, e.g. (client :do-something &args) vs (client :do-something-else & other-args). It would be nice to defined a protocol with function do-something and do-something-else but then I would have to pass the atom as an argument to the record which feels even worse. Am I missing an obvious other solution? Have you done something similar, how? Any pointers welcome. Best regards, stefan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
