I have the following code:
(defn post
[title content timestamp]
(let [[innholdet tajm]
[(str "<html>
<head>
<title>" title " :: " blog_title "</title></head>
<body><h1>" title "</h1>
<br/>" content "<br/><i>posted " (Date. timestamp) "</i>
<br/><a href=\"" (str blog_url) "\">[main]</a> |
<a href=\"" (str blog_url) "/" timestamp ".html\">[permalink]</a>
</body></html>") (str timestamp".html")]]
(spit tajm innholdet)
)
)
I have another function that passes a title, the content and a UNIX timestamp to the function "post" above. blog_title and blog_url is var defined at the top of the code. I have sorted the HTML for aesthetics, in the "real code" this is no the case. I am also doing
(import 'java.util.Date)
(use 'clojure.string)
If I try to execute the code I get an error
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
If I remove (Date. timestamp) the code executes perfectly, but I need to have that (Date.) function.
Now, if in REPL I do
(import 'java.util.Date)
Then define a var with a timestamp
(def timestamp 1278854531000) ;; Just for pushing a var into (Date.) than just the number
And then I just copy the (let) into REPL and adjust the vars in the original code to rather just represent the different function names instead of the values (since this is the REPL and the vars, functions and values that are in the original code doesn't exist), to be like this:
(let [[innholdet tajm]
[(str "<html>
<head>
<title>" (str "title") " :: " (str "blog_title") "</title>
</head>
<body><h1>" (str "title") "</h1><br/>" (str "content") "<br/>
<i>posted " (Date. timestamp) "</i><br/>
<a href=\"" (str "blog_url") "\">[main]</a> |
<a href=\"" (str "blog_url") "/" (str "1278854531000") ".html\">[permalink]</a></body></html>")
(str "1278854531000.html")]]
(println innholdet tajm))
Now the REPL gives me:
<html>
<head>
<title>title :: blog_title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>title</h1><br/>content<br/>
<i>posted Sun Jul 11 15:22:11 CEST 2010</i><br/>
<a href="blog_url">[main]</a> |
<a href="blog_url/1278854531000.html">[permalink]</a>
</body></html>
1278854531000.html
nil
Again, everything has been shifted so that it would be more friendly to read, in REPL everything comes out in one large string.
The problem here is that I can execute the code in REPL and get the value of (Date. timestamp) and everything works out, but when I execute it inside of a function in my program I get the above mentioned error. Would appreciate if anyone could tell me what I am missing here.