The idea here is to have a function with which to show warnings to the user, which can be dynamically bound. Any binding should be a function of one argument, which it should print, log, or otherwise display.

Compose and return a sensible reason message for this exception.

Compose a reason message for this exception, log it (with its stacktrace), and return the reason message.

Clojure stacktraces are unreadable. We have to do better; evaluate this form in a try-catch block; return a map. If the evaluation succeeds, the map will have a key :result whose value is the result; otherwise it will have a key :error which will be bound to the most sensible error message we can construct. Additionally, log the exception

Evaluate the supplied form in a try/catch block. If the keyword param :message is supplied, the value will be used as the log message; if the keyword param :error-return is supplied, the value will be returned if an exception is caught.

Clojure stacktraces are unreadable. We have to do better; evaluate this form in a try-catch block; return a map. If the evaluation succeeds, the map will have a key :result whose value is the result; otherwise it will have a key :error which will be bound to the most sensible error message we can construct.

Evaluate this form; if any exception is thrown, show it to the user via the *warn* mechanism.

Evaluate this form; if any exception is thrown, log the reason and show it to the user via the *warn* mechanism.

Sending empty strings, or numbers as strings, to the database often isn’t helpful. Massage these params and form-params to eliminate these problems. We must take key field values out of just params, but we should take all other values out of form-params - because we need the key to load the form in the first place, but just accepting values of other params would allow spoofing.

Return a map with one key, this k as a keyword, whose value is the binding of k in map m, as read by read.

Sending empty strings, or numbers as strings, to the database often isn’t helpful. Massage these params and form-params to eliminate these problems. Date and time fields also need massaging.

FIXME: write docs

FIXME: write docs