How do I make custom clojure.spec generator?

Question

I'm trying to spec the following data structure called Connection:

{:id "some string" :channel "instance of org.httpkit.server.AsyncChannel" }

Here is my spec:

(defn make-channel []
  (proxy [AsyncChannel] [nil nil]
    (toString [] "mock AsyncChannel")))

(defn channel-gen
  []
  (->> (s/gen (s/int-in 0 1))
       (gen/fmap (fn [_] (make-channel)))))

(s/def ::channel (s/spec (::channel-type)
                         :gen channel-gen))

(s/def ::id string?)

(s/def ::connection (s/keys :req-un [::channel ::id]))

(s/fdef make-connection
        :args ::channel
        :ret ::connection)

I'm getting the following error and I have no clue what is wrong here:

clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: Unable to construct gen at: [] for: gameserve.ws$make_connection@788ffa19
clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: Unable to construct gen at: [] for: gameserve.ws$make_connection@788ffa19 #:clojure.spec.alpha{:path [], :form #object[gameserve.ws$make_connection 0x788ffa19 "gameserve.ws$make_connection@788ffa19"], :failure :no-gen}

Answer 1

I can't reproduce your error, but wanted to point out a couple of things that might help you get this working.

Your gen/fmap ignoring its parameter thing is already a thing: gen/return .

Here you're calling a keyword with no arguments, this will throw an IllegalArgumentException . Just remove the parens around ::channel-type .

(s/def ::channel (s/spec (::channel-type)
                         :gen channel-gen))

And here you're making an args spec that talks about a single thing. :args is always a sequence of arguments, if the function takes only one argument, it's a sequence of length one. You'd normally use s/cat .

(s/fdef make-connection
  :args ::channel
  :ret ::connection)

The following works for me. (It assumes that your channel stuff is correct.)

(ns foo.core
  (:require
   [clojure.spec.gen.alpha :as gen]
   [clojure.spec.alpha :as s]))

(defn make-channel []
  :mock-channel)

(defn channel-gen
  []
  (gen/return (make-channel)))

(s/def ::channel-type any?)

(s/def ::channel (s/spec ::channel-type
                         :gen channel-gen))

(s/def ::id string?)

(s/def ::connection (s/keys :req-un [::channel ::id]))

(defn make-connection [c])

(s/fdef make-connection
  :args (s/cat :c ::channel)
  :ret ::connection)

(comment

  (s/exercise ::connection)
  ;;=> ([{:channel :mock-channel, :id ""} {:channel :mock-channel, :id ""}]
  ;;    [{:channel :mock-channel, :id "k"} {:channel :mock-channel, :id "k"}] ,,,)

  (s/exercise-fn `make-connection)
  ;;=> ([(:mock-channel) nil] [(:mock-channel) nil] ,,,)

  )