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Clojure spec's missing piece
(require
'[clojure.spec :as s]
'[clojure.spec.test :as test])
(defn naive-english-explain
"Copy and paste this into your app. Figure out what it does by
trying it in production."
([] (naive-english-explain (ex-data *e)))
([spec-explain-data]
(let [p1 (-> spec-explain-data ::s/problems first)]
(str "\nThis value looks wrong:"
"\n\n\t"
(pr-str (:val p1))
"\n\nIt should have matched the spec:\n\n\t"
(pr-str (:pred p1))
"\n"))))
(comment
(s/assert (s/coll-of int?) [1 2 :blah])
(println (naive-english-explain))
)
(println "when the error is in a primitive type spec - it works ok")
(println (-> (s/explain-data (s/coll-of int?) [1 2 :blah])
naive-english-explain))
(s/def ::int-or-string (s/or :int int? :str string?))
(println "when the error is in a spec that contains branching - only the error of the first failing branch is displayed")
(println (-> (s/explain-data ::int-or-string [1 2 :blah])
naive-english-explain))
(print "when the predicate that fails contains code - the code is returned (oops...)")
(println (-> (s/explain-data (s/coll-of any? :min-count 5 :max-count 5) [1 2 :blah])
naive-english-explain))
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