Getting the id of an inserted entity in datomic?

Question

After I run a transaction in datomic to insert a value, how I can use the return value of the transaction to get the ids of any entities that were created?

Here is a sam

Answer 1

Wrote a quick function based on a2ndrade's answer. The naming isn't ideal and I may be committing idiomatic faux pas; suggestions are very much welcome.

(ns my.datomic.util
  (:require [datomic.api :as d]))

(defn transact-and-get-id
  "Transact tx and return entity id."
  [conn tx]
  (let [tempid (:db/id tx)
        post-tx @(d/transact conn [tx])
        db (:db-after post-tx)
        entid (d/resolve-tempid db (:tempids post-tx) tempid)]
    entid))

Example usage:

(def my-conn
  (d/connect (str "datomic:sql://datomic?jdbc:postgresql://"
                  "127.0.1:5432/datomic?user=datomic&password=somepw")

(defn thing-tx
  "Create transaction for new thing."
  [name]
  {:db/id (d/tempid :db.part/user)
   :thing/name name})

(transact-and-get-id my-conn (thing-tx "Bob")) ;; => 17592186045502