Variable passed to macro gets resolved in wrong namespace?

Question

The Noir macro defpage is giving me a little bit of trouble. I am trying to construct a call similar to this:

(defpage [:post \"some/url\"] [dat         


        

Answer 1

It seems, that noir is not meant to be used this way, because it takes the method argument and transforms it to the symbol in compojure.core (see https://github.com/ibdknox/noir/blob/master/src/noir/core.clj#L36). It means, that it doesn't expect a variable in this place, only literals. So I don't think you can do anything about that, except post an issue to noir...

Answer 2

If we look through noir/core.clj file (source), find parse-route function and reason what it does with its method argument (it is called action there), we could find that method keyword is converted to string, uppercased and resolved in compojure.core namespace. All this is done during macro expansion time. So it is not possible to use variable instead of keyword without altering noir code.

Answer 3

I guess this is a similar problem to: How can I apply clojure's doc function to a sequence of functions A macro can do whatever it wants with its args, so passing a naked symbol in can result in unpredictable results.

A way to solve it, but it ain't pretty:

(eval (list 'defpage (vector my-method "some/url") '[data]
  ; some stuff
))

Notice that my-method is not a literal here, so it gets resolved and evaluated in our own namespace first, before going into eval.

Answer 4

What about passing my-method along with namespace it is in:

(defpage [myns/my-method "some/url"] [data]
;;
)