Maps with UUID keys

[harold]

Appreciate you efforts here, this is a cool library.

user> (require '[balloon.core :as b])
nil
user> (b/deflate {1 {:a 1}})
{:1.a 1}
user> (b/deflate {(random-uuid) {:a 1}})
Execution error (ClassCastException) at balloon.core/keys->deflated-key$fn$iter$fn$fn (core.cljc:22).
class java.util.UUID cannot be cast to class clojure.lang.Named (java.util.UUID is in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap'; clojure.lang.Named is in unnamed module of loader 'app')

I get that the result might not be pretty, but we have a lot of maps like this that this library might help with a lot.

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

[roboli]

Hi @harold, glad to hear you find it useful. Yeah, this due that it runs name against the key and running (name (random-uuid)) won't do. I can fix this but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it soon. If you are in a hurry, in the meantime, perhaps you can do something like:

(b/deflate {(str (random-uuid)) {:a 1}})

But I also understand that you might want the real UUID as the key, not its string representation, although you can do a (parse-uuid s) to get it back. Anyhow, this is another limitation the library has atm, but I hope to do more improvements eventually. Suggestions are welcome :)