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Clojure Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Clojure Programming Cookbook Handle every problem you come across in the world of Clojure programming with this expert collection of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885037
Length 618 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Modrzyk Nicolas Modrzyk
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Makoto Hashimoto Makoto Hashimoto
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Live Programming with Clojure FREE CHAPTER 2. Interacting with Collections 3. Clojure Next 4. File Access and the Network 5. Working with Other Languages 6. Concurrency and Parallelism 7. Advanced Tips 8. Web Applications 9. Testing 10. Deployment and DevOps

Manipulating various formats of files - XML, JSON, YAML, and EDN

There are many formats available to exchange data between different systems these days, but the most important ones seems to be quite stable for some time with a list of XML, JSON, YAML, and, more recently, MessagePack and EDN, a subset of the Clojure notation.

Each of these formats has some strong points, so this recipe will show us how to read and parse data through those different formats, and also when you might want to use each of them.

Getting ready

This recipe will make use of the standard libraries in the Clojure world to parse the different data formats. These are the full set of dependencies that we will need in our projects.clj file:

[clj-yaml "0.4.0"] ; parse yaml 
[cheshire "5.5.0"] ; parse json 
[org.clojure/data.xml "0.1.0-beta1"] ; parse xml 
[com.cognitect/transit-clj "0.8.285"] ; library for both json and msgpack 
[org.clojure/tools.reader "1.0.0-alpha2"] ; EDN...
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