How to make a ring server reload on file change? - clojure

How do you make a ring server reload during development whenever a file changes?

Add this dependency to your project.clj:
[ring/ring-devel "1.8.0"]
You can get the latest version number from Clojars.
Then require the following in the file where your request handler lives:
(:require [ring.middleware.reload :refer [wrap-reload]])
The wrap your handler:
(wrap-reload handler)
Example from a server using multiple wrappers:
(def handler
(compojure/routes
(GET "/" [] "hello world")
(route/not-found "No such page.")))
(defn -main []
(server/run-server
(-> handler
params/wrap-params
wrap-reload)
{:port 8080}))
You can find the documentation on the reload middleware here, and another example on how to use it here.

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Using cprop env information inside swagger setup in a luminus project

I am using swagger to provide an API for a db access program. During development I normally have 2 versions running, the dev version and the prod version that I automatically start on login. I want to have a different title visible on the swagger front page so I don't accidentally trash my live database. So far I have been hand editing the title field in the swagger setup, but this is error prone, I often forget to change it before I run lein uberjar to build the prod version.
The env setup seems like an ideal way to do this. The luminus lein template already uses an env map that is built from dev and prod config files which works fine, allowing me to automatically specify different ports for the 2 builds. I added an entry to these that gives me a title that is different in prod and dev versions. I can see it from the repl, but including it in the swagger specification just gives null.
This is the :swagger definition from the start of my photo-api.routes.services.clj file:
(ns photo-api.routes.services
(:require [cheshire.core :as json]
[compojure.api.sweet :refer :all]
[image-lib.images :as ilim]
[image-lib.preferences :as ilpf]
[image-lib.projects :as ilpr]
[image-lib.write :as ilwr]
[photo-api.db.core :as db]
[photo-api.config :refer [env]]
[photo-api.routes.helpers.build :as build]
[photo-api.routes.helpers.keywords :as keywords]
[photo-api.routes.helpers.open :as open]
[photo-api.routes.helpers.photos :as photos]
[photo-api.routes.helpers.projects :as projects]
[ring.util.codec :refer [url-decode]]
[ring.util.http-response :refer [ok]]
[schema.core :as s]
[clojure.string :as str]))
(defapi service-routes
{:swagger {:ui "/swagger-ui"
:spec "/swagger.json"
:data
{:info
{:version "1.0.1"
;; Switch to correct title before lein uberjar
;; TODO Automate this so swagger page always shows dev or prod version
;;:title "Photo API"
:title (:title env)
:description "Access a mongo database containing details of photos"}}}}
The commented out :title specification works fine, but the (:title env) call doesn't although it is the exact same call I can successfully use from the repl. I believe the env map is built as part of photo-api.config and from the startup messages when I start the server it looks like this is being successfully started before the http-server:
{:started
["#'photo-api.config/env"
"#'photo-api.db.core/db*"
"#'photo-api.db.core/db"
"#'photo-api.handler/init-app"
"#'photo-api.handler/app"
"#'photo-api.core/http-server"]}
user>
This is photo-api.config, unchanged from the luminus default:
(ns photo-api.config
(:require [cprop.core :refer [load-config]]
[cprop.source :as source]
[mount.core :refer [args defstate]]))
(defstate env :start (load-config
:merge
[(args)
(source/from-system-props)
(source/from-env)]))
and the dev config.edn file:
{:title "**** Photos Development API ****"
:dev true
:port 31999
;; when :nrepl-port is set the application starts the nREPL server on load
:nrepl-port 57251}
Am I missing something obvious here? Is there another step necessary to make the env map visible to the swagger setup?
EDIT:
Changing the call from (:title env) to (env :title) causes cider-jack-in to fail with a long error message/stack trace that includes:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: mount.core.DerefableState cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IFn
Changing it again to (#env :title) then gives a similarly long error message/stack trace that contains:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: mount.core.NotStartedState cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IFn, compiling:(services.clj:29:23)
So it looks like env is not being started till after the call to it from the swagger setup. I still have no idea why as the when cider-jack-in did work it clearly showed the config.env state starting before the http-server. (see above)
It looks like (defstate env) is an atom that needs to be derefed. Mount's README points to the tests to for some examples .
You might try (:title #env) in service-routes
(defapi service-routes
{:swagger {:ui "/swagger-ui"
:spec "/swagger.json"
:data
{:info
{:version "1.0.1"
;; Switch to correct title before lein uberjar
;; TODO Automate this so swagger page always shows dev or prod version
;;:title "Photo API"
:title (:title #env) ;;;--------> UPDATED
:description "Access a mongo database containing details of photos"}}}}
EDIT --
Not an atom. See this issue for the same deref error, which, presumably means that no deref is needed.

Parse JSON body from HTTP request (with ring and re-frame-http-fx)

I have a re-frame-based UI and try to communicate with my server using re-frame-http-fx. Sending and responding seems to work. However, I can't figure out how to parse the JSON body into a Clojure map on the server.
Here is my handler.clj as minimal as I could get it:
(ns my.handler
(:require [compojure.core :refer [GET POST defroutes]]
[compojure.route :refer [resources]]
[ring.util.response :refer [resource-response]]
[ring.middleware.json :refer [wrap-json-response wrap-json-body]]))
(defn json-post [request]
(let [body (:body request)]
(prn body)
body))
(defroutes routes
(GET "/" [] (resource-response "index.html" {:root "public"}))
(POST "/post" request json-post)
(resources "/"))
(def handler (wrap-json-response (wrap-json-body routes {:keywords? true})))
As far as I understand, the wrap-json-body middleware should replace the request body by a parsed version (a map?).
However, the output I get from (prn body) in my json-post handler is something like this:
#object[org.httpkit.BytesInputStream 0xda8b162 "BytesInputStream[len=41]"]
If I try something like (prn (:title body)) I get nil (although the original map-turned-json-request contains :title, as well as both the request and response body).
The request and response contain the correct json. The request Content-Type is correctly set to application/json (sent by re-frame-http-fx). The length of the buffer (41) is also the correct body length as per request.
I am running out of things to try. Any ideas?
While investigating the issue further, I found my error that lead to the effect. It concerns the dev-handler from the re-frame template that I conventiently omitted from my minimal example in the question.
I did not realize it was a problem, because the application seems to start fine even if you delete the entire definition of dev-handler from handler.clj, I assume because the server is initialized with handler in server.clj anyway (and the client does not fail fatally).
However, in project.clj of the re-frame template, the following is configured for figwheel:
:figwheel {:css-dirs ["resources/public/css"]
:ring-handler my.handler/dev-handler}
This leads to middleware configured for handler not being applied to my requests, thus not unwrapping the json body. Changing either the definition of dev-handler (the the same as handler in the question) or the configuration of figwheel in project.clj (to point to handler instead of dev-handler) solves the problem.
If anybody knows the reasoning of different handlers in project.clj and server.clj, feel free to let me know.

Clojure what does #' mean

I am following this tutorial building a Clojure backend
and I'm not exactly well versed in Clojure.
The tutorial provides this source file
(ns shouter.web
(:require [compojure.core :refer [defroutes GET]]
[ring.adapter.jetty :as ring]))
(defroutes routes
(GET "/" [] "<h2>Hello World</h2>"))
(defn -main []
(ring/run-jetty #'routes {:port 8080 :join? false}))
what exactly does the #' mean? I know somehow it's getting the value of routes but why can you not just say
(ring/run-jetty routes {:port 8080 :join? false}))
Is the #' a ring specific syntax? Couldn't find any good resources on the matter.
#'sym expands to (var sym).
A var can be used interchangeably as the function bound to it. However, invoking a var resolves the defined function dynamically and then invokes it.
In this case it serves development purposes: Instead of passing the handler function routes by value, the var it is bound to is passed so that Jetty does not have to be restarted after you change and re-evaluate shouter.web/routes.

Handling websocket client messages with aleph

During my quest to learn Clojure I am currently facing problems with setting up websocket communitation. After many different approaches, I ended up using aleph.
What I managed to achieve:
handling of a new client connecting
handling a client disconnection
talking from the server to clients at will
What I lack is means to trigger a handler function whenever one of the connected clients sends something via the websocket.
My code so far:
(ns wonders7.core.handler
(:require [compojure.core :refer :all]
[compojure.route :as route]
[ring.middleware.defaults :refer [wrap-defaults site-defaults]]
[aleph.http :as http]
[manifold.stream :as stream]
[clojure.tools.logging :refer [info]]))
(defn uuid [] (str (java.util.UUID/randomUUID)))
(def clients (atom {}))
(defn ws-create-handler [req]
(let [ws #(http/websocket-connection req)]
(info "ws-create-handler")
(stream/on-closed ws #(swap! clients dissoc ws))
(swap! clients assoc ws (uuid))))
(defroutes app-routes
(GET "/ws" [] ws-create-handler)
(route/not-found "Not Found"))
(def app
(wrap-defaults app-routes site-defaults))
(defn msg-to-client [[client-stream uuid]]
(stream/put! client-stream "The server side says hello!"))
(defn msg-broadcast []
(map #(msg-to-client %) #clients))
;(stream/take! (first (first #clients)))
;(http/start-server app {:port 8080})
I start the Netty server with the commented out http/start-server aleph call. I also managed to fetch messages from the client via manual stream/take! call (also commented out). What I need to figure out is how to trigger this taking automatically when something comes in.
Thanks in advance for any help!
The function you're looking for is (manifold.stream/consume callback stream), which will invoke the callback for each message that comes off the stream.
in This example the author uses recieve-all and siphon from aleph to accomplish a very similar task which I'll roughly paraphrase as:
(let [chat (named-channel room (receive-all ch #(println "message: " %)))]
(siphon chat ch)

Compojure development without web server restarts

I've written a small Swing App before in Clojure and now I'd like to create an Ajax-style Web-App. Compojure looks like the best choice right now, so that's what I'm going to try out.
I'd like to have a real tiny edit/try feedback-loop, so I'd prefer not to restart the web server after each small change I do.
What's the best way to accomplish this? By default my Compojure setup (the standard stuff with ant deps/ant with Jetty) doesn't seem to reload any changes I do. I'll have to restart with run-server to see the changes. Because of the Java-heritage and the way the system is started etc. This is probably perfectly normal and the way it should be when I start the system from command-line.
Still, there must be a way to reload stuff dynamically while the server is running. Should I use Compojure from REPL to accomplish my goal? If I should, how do I reload my stuff there?
This is quite an old question, and there have been some recent changes that make this much easier.
There are two main things that you want:
Control should return to the REPL so you can keep interacting with your server. This is accomplished by adding {:join? false} to options when starting the Jetty server.
You'd like to automatically pick up changes in certain namespaces when the files change. This can be done with Ring's "wrap-reload" middleware.
A toy application would look like this:
(ns demo.core
(:use webui.nav
[clojure.java.io]
[compojure core response]
[ring.adapter.jetty :only [run-jetty]]
[ring.util.response]
[ring.middleware file file-info stacktrace reload])
(:require [compojure.route :as route] view)
(:gen-class))
; Some stuff using Fleet omitted.
(defroutes main-routes
(GET "/" [] (view/layout {:body (index-page)})
(route/not-found (file "public/404.html"))
)
(defn app
[]
(-> main-routes
(wrap-reload '(demo.core view))
(wrap-file "public")
(wrap-file-info)
(wrap-stacktrace)))
(defn start-server
[]
(run-jetty (app) {:port 8080 :join? false}))
(defn -main [& args]
(start-server))
The wrap-reload function decorates your app routes with a function that detects changes in the listed namespaces. When processing a request, if those namespaces have changed on disk, they are reloaded before further request processing. (My "view" namespace is dynamically created by Fleet, so this auto-reloads my templates whenever they change, too.)
I added a few other pieces of middleware that I've found consistently useful. wrap-file handles static assets. wrap-file-info sets the MIME type on those static assets. wrap-stacktrace helps in debugging.
From the REPL, you could start this app by using the namespace and calling start-server directly. The :gen-class keyword and -main function mean that the app can also be packaged as an uberjar for startup from outside the REPL, too. (There's a world outside the REPL? Well, some people have asked for it anyway...)
Here's an answer I got from James Reeves in the Compojure Google Group (the answer's here with his permission):
You can reload a namespace in Clojure using the :reload key on the use
or require commands. For example, let's say you have a file "demo.clj" that contains your routes:
(ns demo
(:use compojure))
(defroutes demo-routes
(GET "/"
"Hello World")
(ANY "*"
[404 "Page not found"]))
At the REPL, you can use this file and start a server:
user=> (use 'demo)
nil
user=> (use 'compojure)
nil
user=> (run-server {:port 8080} "/*" (servlet demo-routes))
...
You could also put the run-server command in another clojure file.
However, you don't want to put it in the same file as the stuff you want to reload.
Now make some changes to demo.clj. At the REPL type:
user=> (use 'demo :reload)
nil
And your changes should now show up on http://localhost:8080
I wanted to add an answer, since things have changed a bit since the newest answer and I had spent a bit of time looking for this myself.
Install leiningen (just follow the instructions there)
Create project
lein new compojure compojure-test
Edit the ring section of project.clj
:ring {:handler compojure-test.handler/app
:auto-reload? true
:auto-refresh? true}
Start the server on whatever port you want
lein ring server-headless 8080
Check that the server is running in your browser, the default base route should just say "Hello world". Next, go modify your handler (it's in src/project_name). Change the hello world text, save the file and reload the page in your browser. It should reflect the new text.
Following up on Timothy's link to Jim Downing's setup, I recently posted on a critical addition to that baseline that I found was necessary to enable automatic redeployment of compojure apps during development.
I have a shell script that looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
CLASSPATH=/home/me/install/compojure/compojure.jar
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/me/clojure/clojure.jar
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/me/clojure-contrib/clojure-contrib.jar
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/me/elisp/clojure/swank-clojure
for f in /home/me/install/compojure/deps/*.jar; do
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$f
done
java -server -cp $CLASSPATH clojure.lang.Repl /home/me/code/web/web.clj
web.clj looks like this
(use '[swank.swank])
(swank.swank/ignore-protocol-version "2009-03-09")
(start-server ".slime-socket" :port 4005 :encoding "utf-8")
Whenever I want to update the server I create an ssh tunnel from my local machine to the remote machine.
Enclojure and Emacs (running SLIME+swank-clojure) can connect to the remote REPL.
This is highly configuration dependent but works for me and I think you can adapt it:
Put compojure.jar and the jars under the compojure/deps directory are in your classpath. I use clojure-contrib/launchers/bash/clj-env-dir to do this, all you need to do is set the directory in CLOJURE_EXT and it will find the jars.
CLOJURE_EXT Colon-delimited list of paths to directories whose top-level
contents are (either directly or as symbolic links) jar
files and/or directories whose paths will be in Clojure's
classpath.
Launch clojure REPL
Paste in hello.clj example from compojure root directory
Check localhost:8080
Re-define the greeter
(defroutes greeter
(GET "/"
(html [:h1 "Goodbye World"])))
Check localhost:8080
There are also methods for attaching a REPL to an existing process, or you could keep a socket REPL embedded in your server or you could even define a POST call that will eval on the fly to allow you to redefine functions from the browser itself! There are lots of ways to approach this.
I'd like to follow up on mtnygard's answer and post the full project.clj file and core.clj file that got the given functionality working. A few modifications were made, and it's more barebones
pre-setup commands
lein new app test-web
cd test-web
mkdir resources
project.clj
(defproject test-web "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
:description "FIXME: write description"
:url "http://example.com/FIXME"
:license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
:url "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"}
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
[compojure "1.1.6"]
[ring "1.2.1"]]
:main ^:skip-aot test-web.core
:target-path "target/%s"
:profiles {:uberjar {:aot :all}})
core.clj
(ns test-web.core
(:use
[clojure.java.io]
[compojure core response]
[ring.adapter.jetty :only [run-jetty]]
[ring.util.response]
[ring.middleware file file-info stacktrace reload])
(:require [compojure.route :as route])
(:gen-class))
(defroutes main-routes
(GET "/" [] "Hello World!!")
(GET "/hello" [] (hello))
(route/not-found "NOT FOUND"))
(def app
(-> main-routes
(wrap-reload '(test-web.core))
(wrap-file "resources")
(wrap-file-info)
(wrap-stacktrace)))
(defn hello []
(str "Hello World!"))
(defn start-server
[]
(run-jetty #'app {:port 8081 :join? false}))
(defn -main [& args]
(start-server))
Pay Attention to the change from (defn app ...) to (def app ...)
This was crucial to getting the jetty server to work correctly
Compojure uses ring internally (by the same author), the ring web server options allow automatic realoading. So two alternatives would be :
lein ring server
lein ring server-headless
lein ring server 4000
lein ring server-headless 4000
Note that :
You need to have a line in your project.clj file that looks like:
:ring {:handler your.app/handler}