Decoder does not handle type "object"

[bkhouri]

I have a response that returns the following syntax

#object[<namespace>.<record> <hex_number> "<edn>"]

Here is a sample output

#object[com.example.funktown.DoubleEntity 0x66c5e52e "{:my/keyword1 :my/keyword2, :keyword3 1462827186240, :my/keyword3 \"This is a string\", :my/key5 #inst \"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000-00:00\"}"]

However, calling clj.loads(data) with the above fails with the following:

>>> data = '#object[com.example.funktown.DoubleEntity 0x66c5e52e "{:my/keyword1 :my/keyword2, :keyword3 1462827186240, :my/keyword3 \"This is a string\", :my/key5 #inst \"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000-00:00\"}"]'
>>> clj.loads(data)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clj.py", line 407, in loads
    result = load(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clj.py", line 403, in load
    return decoder.decode()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clj.py", line 82, in decode
    v = self.__read_token()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clj.py", line 263, in __read_token
    raise ValueError('Unexpected char: "%s" at line %d, col %d' % (c, self.cur_line, self.cur_pos))
ValueError: Unexpected char: "#" at line 1, col 1

I'm not familiar with clojure well enough, but it would be nice to handle the type object. Or maybe provide function that would return only the the EDN data structure.

[sunng87]

Yes this is true, object/record were no supported in this library. Because we cannot find com.example.funktown.DoubleEntity type on the python side. Perhaps you can transform your clojure object to a map before given it to python.

[bkhouri]

Changing the clojure object to a map is not an option for what I'm trying to do as there is alot of risk to it.

All clojureobject type seem to have the same structure.

#object[<namespace> <hex> "<edn>"]  

If we receive #object, why not just ignore the next [, then ignore the <namespace> and <hex>. Then return the <edn> object as a dictionary and ignore the ]?

Does that sound like a viable solution for you? if so, i can try to post a PR to this project. Please let me know, otherwise I'll fork the repo.