hello-module

An Arachne module that provides a component which says hello when an Arachne application starts.

This is designed to be a very simple module, but with all the basic parts, so you can see how they work.

There are only a couple files to worry about:

• resources/arachne-modules.edn defines the module. It must be named exactly arachne-modules.edn, on the root of the classpath, to allow the module to be discovered and loaded.
• src/arachne/hello.clj contains all the source code for the module. Normally modules would have their functionality split up between serveral source files, but to make it easy to visualize this project has it all in one place.

These files are heavily commented and documented. Reading and understanding them is highly recommended if you want to understand how modules work; all of the code is very similar to what you will need to write, for any module.

What it does

This module allows you to define components called "greeters." When Arachne starts, each greeter will print out a custom message to System/out.

A config initialization script using this module looks something like this:

(require '[arachne.core.dsl :as core])
(require '[arachne.hello :as hello])

(core/runtime :test/runtime [:test.greeting/spanish :test.greeting/informal])

(hello/greeter :test.greeting/spanish "Hola!")
(hello/greeter :test.greeting/informal "Hi!")

And the output when you start an Arachne app using that config:

Hola!
Hi!

How to run it

1. You can run the tests in test/arachne/hello_test.clj, which create a full Arachne application using the module. There are two configs provided for trying out the different possibilities, both in the test-configs directory.

2. You can compile the module into a jar in the standard way, using lein install to install it to your local Maven repository. From there, you can declare a dependency on it and use it from any Arachne project

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