Light Table read input

Question

I'm having some trouble to get started with Light Table.

Here's my code (Clojure)

(ns prova1-ed.core
  (:gen-class))

(use 'clojure.java.io)

(defn -main [& args]

  (println "Type the name of the file to read: ")

  (let [fileName (read-line)]
    (let [rdr (reader fileName)]
      (doseq [line (line-seq rdr)]
        (println line)
  )))
)

I'm sure it works. I've tested with lein run. As you can see, the program should read a file which the name is given by the user.

I've tried CTRL+SPACE in Light Table, but this is what I receive:

ERROR: Unhandled REPL handler exception processing message {:data {:auto? false, :pos {:line 14, :ch 1}, :mime "text/x-clojure", :tags [:editor.clj :editor.clojure], :type-name "Clojure", :line-ending "\r\n", :ns user, :path "C:\\Users\\Tiago\\Documents\\Clojure\\prova1_ed\\src\\prova1_ed\\core.clj", :print-length nil, :name "core.clj", :local true, :code "(ns prova1-ed.core\n  (:gen-class))\n\n(use 'clojure.java.io)\n\n(defn -main [& args]\n\n  (println \"Type the name of the file to read: \")\n\n  (let [fileName (read-line)]\n    (let [rdr (reader fileName)]\n      (doseq [line (line-seq rdr)]\n        (println line)\n  )))\n)\n"}, :id 90, :op editor.eval.clj.sonar, :session 65d1da68-a730-4ffe-9365-9527726384e3}

How can i run it in the Light Tables' enviroment, so that I can input the file name?

Answer 1

TLDR

I don't think you can run (read-line) in Light Table as it'd have to add explicit support for allowing input. There's no standard input basically.

An Alternative

I'd suggest you modify your -main function to accept an explicit file-name argument instead of trying to read it from a standard input that isn't available.

I've got a Clojure webapp that I work on in Light Table.

I've got a -main function in a namespace named my-app.web. It looks something like this:

(defn -main [& [port]]
  (let [port (Integer. (or port (env :port) 5000))
        store (cookie/cookie-store {:key (env :session-secret)})]
    (jetty/run-jetty (-> #'secured-app
                         wrap-with-logging
                         wrap-current-user
                         wrap-current-auth
                         wrap-error-page
                         (site {:session {:store store}}))
                     {:port port :join? false})))

In a separate file I've named light-table-start.clj, I've got the following code to run my app inside Light Table:

(require '[my-app.web :as web])
(require '[ring.adapter.jetty :as jetty])

(defonce server (web/-main "5000"))

;; (.start server)
;; (.stop server)

I run the Eval: Eval editor contents command (Ctrl+Shift+Enter on Windows and Linux or ⌘+Shift+Enter on Mac OS) the first time I want to run my app (or later, if the connection is closed for some reason). When I want to start or stop the server I can just highlight the code on the respective commented lines and run the Eval: Eval a form in editor command (Ctrl+Enter on Windows and Linux or ⌘+Enter on Mac OS).