CIDER nREPL

A collection of nREPL middleware designed to enhance CIDER.

If you're just a user trying to get started with CIDER, then you probably don't want to read this. You should follow the steps in CIDER's Readme instead.

If you're trying to use cider-nrepl for some other purpose, the sections below outline how to include it in a project.

Usage

Prerequisites

cider-nrepl supports only Clojure(Script) 1.7+ and Java 7+.

Leiningen users will need to have version 2.5.2 or newer installed.

Via Leiningen

Use the convenient plugin for defaults, either in your project's project.clj file or in the :user profile in ~/.lein/profiles.clj.

:plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.14.0"]]

A minimal profiles.clj for CIDER would be:

{:user {:plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.14.0"]]}}

Or (if you know what you're doing) add cider-nrepl to your :dev :dependencies vector plus specific middleware to :nrepl-middleware under :repl-options.

:dependencies [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.14.0"]]
:repl-options {:nrepl-middleware
                 [cider.nrepl.middleware.apropos/wrap-apropos
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.classpath/wrap-classpath
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.complete/wrap-complete
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.debug/wrap-debug
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.format/wrap-format
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.info/wrap-info
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.inspect/wrap-inspect
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.macroexpand/wrap-macroexpand
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.ns/wrap-ns
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.pprint/wrap-pprint
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.pprint/wrap-pprint-fn
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.refresh/wrap-refresh
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.resource/wrap-resource
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.stacktrace/wrap-stacktrace
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.test/wrap-test
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.trace/wrap-trace
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.out/wrap-out
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.undef/wrap-undef
                  cider.nrepl.middleware.version/wrap-version]}

Note that you should use a cider-nrepl version compatible with your CIDER. Generally, if you're using CIDER 0.x.y you should be using cider-nrepl 0.x.y, if you're using CIDER 0.x.y-SNAPSHOT, you should be using cider-nrepl 0.x.y-SNAPSHOT, etc.

Via Boot

Boot users can configure the tool to include the middleware automatically in all of their projects using a ~/.boot/profile.boot file like so:

(require 'boot.repl)

(swap! boot.repl/*default-dependencies*
       concat '[[cider/cider-nrepl "0.14.0"]])

(swap! boot.repl/*default-middleware*
       conj 'cider.nrepl/cider-middleware)

For more information visit boot-clj wiki.

Via embedding nREPL in your app

If you're embedding nREPL in your application you'll have to start the server with CIDER's own nREPL handler.

(ns my-app
  (:require [clojure.tools.nrepl.server :as nrepl-server]
            [cider.nrepl :refer (cider-nrepl-handler)]))

(defn -main
  []
  (nrepl-server/start-server :port 7888 :handler cider-nrepl-handler))

With JBoss AS/JBoss EAP/WildFly

Using the advanced features of the info middleware with one of the JBoss application servers requires a tweak, since JBoss modules prevent modifications to AppClassLoader (usually the highest modifiable classloader) from being seen by application code. To work around this, run the following code from within your application to mark that classloader as unmodifiable, and cause the lower level clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader to be used instead. This code must execute prior to loading the cider-nrepl middleware. Note that this is only if you are deploying a standard WAR file to the application server directly. If you are using Immutant (1.x or 2.x), you won't need to do this.

(require '[dynapath.dynamic-classpath :as cp])

(extend sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader
  cp/DynamicClasspath
  (assoc cp/base-readable-addable-classpath
    :classpath-urls #(seq (.getURLs %))
    :can-add? (constantly false)))

Supplied nREPL middleware

Middleware	Op(s)	Description
wrap-apropos	apropos	Pattern search for symbols and documentation.
wrap-classpath	classpath	Java classpath.
wrap-complete	complete	Simple completion. Supports both Clojure & ClojureScript.
wrap-debug	init-debugger/debug-input	Establish a channel for cider-debug commands, use it to get debug input, and also wrap the eval op.
wrap-format	format-(code/edn)	Code and data formatting.
wrap-info	info/eldoc	File/line, arglists, docstrings and other metadata for vars.
wrap-inspect	inspect-(start/refresh/pop/push/reset/get-path)	Inspect a Clojure expression.
wrap-macroexpand	macroexpand/macroexpand-1/macroexpand-all/macroexpand-step	Macroexpand a Clojure form.
wrap-ns	ns-list/ns-vars/ns-path/ns-load-all	Namespace browsing & loading.
wrap-pprint		Adds pretty-printing support to code evaluation. It also installs a dummy pprint-middleware op. Thus wrap-pprint is discoverable through the describe op.
wrap-pprint-fn		Provides a common pretty-printing interface for other middlewares that need to perform customisable pretty-printing.
wrap-refresh	refresh/refresh-all/refresh-clear	Code reloading.
wrap-resource	resource	Return resource path.
wrap-stacktrace	stacktrace	Cause and stacktrace analysis for exceptions.
wrap-test	test/retest/test-stacktrace	Test execution, reporting, and inspection.
wrap-trace	toggle-trace-var/toggle-trace-ns	Toggle tracing of a given var or ns.
wrap-out		Echo the server's output stream to client sessions.
wrap-undef	undef	Undefine a var.
wrap-version	cider-version	The CIDER-nREPL version map.

Release policy

We’re following SemVer (as much as one can be following it when the major version is 0). At this point bumps of the minor (second) version number are considered major releases and always include new features or significant changes to existing features. API compatibility between major releases is not a (big) concern (although we try to break the API rarely and only for a good reason).

The development cycle for the next major release starts immediately after the previous one has been shipped. Bugfix/point releases (if any) address only serious bugs and never contain new features.

The versions of CIDER and cider-nrepl are always kept in sync. If you're tracking the master branch of CIDER, you should also be tracking the master branch of cider-nrepl.

Contributing

Discussion

For questions, suggestions and support refer to our official mailing list or the Freenode channel #clojure-emacs. Please, don't report issues there, as this makes them harder to track.

Issues

Report issues and suggest features and improvements on the GitHub issue tracker. Don't ask questions on the issue tracker - the mailing list and the IRC channel are the places for questions.

Patches

Patches under any form are always welcome! GitHub pull requests are even better! :-)

Before submitting a patch or a pull request make sure all tests are passing and that your patch is in line with the contribution guidelines.

Working with mranderson (inlining dependencies)

mranderson is used to avoid classpath collisions.

To work with mranderson the first thing to do is:

lein do clean, source-deps :project-prefix cider.inlined-deps

This creates the munged local dependencies in target/srcdeps directory.

After that you can run your tests or your REPL with:

lein with-profile +plugin.mranderson/config repl
lein with-profile +plugin.mranderson/config test

Note the + sign before the leiningen profile. For this leiningen profile to work you need leiningen version 2.5.0+! If you want to use mranderson while developing locally with the REPL the source has to be modified in the target/srcdeps directory. When you want to release locally:

lein with-profile plugin.mranderson/config install

Release to clojars:

lein with-profile plugin.mranderson/config deploy clojars

Or you can use the very sophisticated script to clean, inline, test and run an end target like install or deploy:

./build.sh install
./build.sh deploy clojars

build.sh cleans, runs source-deps with the right parameters, runs the tests and then runs the provided lein target.

Hall of Fame

Special credit goes to the following people for their contributions:

• Gary Trakhman (@gtrak)
• Jeff Valk (@jeffvalk)
• Hugo Duncan (@hugoduncan)
• Michael Griffiths (@cichli)
• Artur Malabarba (@malabarba)
• Lars Andersen (@expez)
• Benedek Fazekas (@benedekfazekas)

And a big thanks to all other contributors who have helped so far.

Let's also acknowledge some of the projects leveraged by cider-nrepl:

• compliment - for Clojure code completion
• cljs-tooling - for ClojureScript code completion and var info
• tools.trace - for tracing
• tools.namespace - for namespace reloading
• cljfmt - for code formatting

License

Copyright © 2013-2016 Bozhidar Batsov

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.