It can be the small things that make the biggest difference.
I am in the process of connecting my Tic tac toe game with my server. However this has been quite a challenge. Initially I thought it would not be. I knew I needed to make a JAR file from my server. I had done this before so no problem.
But I needed to connect my old Clojure code.
For Clojure initially I have just been using Leiningen. It has served me well, but to convert that project into a library it is best to convert this to deps.edn.
This is a more straightforward path to accomplish this task. What should have been a simple process was made difficult. I was making sure my dependencies were using their latest version. I had to make sure I matched the exact syntax. I also had to make sure I incorporated speclj in correctly.
All of these took some time but this still did not work.
{
:paths ["src" "resources"]
:deps {
org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.11.1"}
org.clojure/data.json {:mvn/version "2.5.0"}
org.postgresql/postgresql {:mvn/version "42.7.2"}
com.github.seancorfield/next.jdbc {:mvn/version "1.3.909"}
quil/quil {:mvn/version "4.3.1563"}
httpserver/httpserver {:local/root "/path/to/MyHTTPServer.jar"}
ttt/ttt {:local/root "/path/to/ttt_clojure"}
}
:aliases {
:dev {:extra-deps {speclj/speclj {:mvn/version "3.4.6"}}}
:test {:extra-paths ["spec"]
:extra-deps {speclj/speclj {:mvn/version "3.4.6"}}
:main-opts ["-m" "speclj.main" "-c"]}
:run {:main-opts ["-m" "webtictactoe.server"]}
}
}
What in the world?!?!
Well, I finally came to the conclusion. I had not updated some of my dependencies in IntelliJ. Cursive needed to be updated, because the previous version had a bug that would prevent what I am trying to accomplish.
After updating Cursive, I was able to finally connect my libraries successfully.
So the lesson for today: stay up to date with your updates.
Best,
Merl