Question

So I think clojure.core/bean is pretty close to what I want, but I’m working with a Java application that has nested beans, such that I end up with maps like this:

{:month-total 3835.0 :name "Jan's Meat Diner" :owners #<BarOwner[] [Lcom.fancypants.BarOwner;@1fb332d}

How, do I call bean recursively on a Java object so that I can get my imaginary BarOwner object to emit itself as a map, too:

{:month-total 3835.0 :name "Jan's Meat Diner" :owners { [:name "Jack"] [:name "Jill"] } }

Edit 1

I have found that clojure/java.data and from-java is probably a better fit for this kind of thing than bean.

Answer 1

Although it’s probably not an ideal answer to “how to use bean recursively”, using more of the richer contrib libraries under the Clojure community’s site did solve it. Specifically

clojure/java.data

provides simple recursive bean resolving, and can be configured to handle java types specifically in the hairy cases. I’d recommend this to other people who want to use bean.