Clojure Applied

Mapping Values

As data moves around your application it’s common for one part of the application to need it in a different form. One subsystem imports data from a spreadsheet with 30 columns into a generic map with 30 keys. Another subsystem needs just 5 columns but in the form of an entity, and yet another system needs only a single field from a sequence of entities to perform a calculation or display it on the screen.

All of these use cases require transformation of the values in a sequential source from one form to another. In Clojure, the map function is used to apply a function to every element in a sequence and produce a new sequence of the results.

For example, consider the need to extract the orbital periods for every planet entity in ...