Clojure: How to find out the arity of function at runtime?

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Given a function object or name, how can I determine its arity? Something like (arity func-name) .

I hope there is a way, since arity is pretty central in Clojure

clojure functional-programming
7 Answers

Building on @whocaresanyway's solution:

(defn provided
  [cond fun x]
  (if cond
    (fun x)
    x))

(defn append
  [xs x]
  (conj (vec xs) x))

(defn arity-of-method
  [method]
  (->> method .getParameterTypes alength))

(defn arities
  [fun]
  (let [all-declared-methods (.getDeclaredMethods (class fun))
        methods-named (fn [name]
                        (filter #(= (.getName %) name) all-declared-methods))
        methods-named-invoke (methods-named "invoke")
        methods-named-do-invoke (methods-named "doInvoke")
        is-rest-fn (seq methods-named-do-invoke)]
    (->> methods-named-invoke
         (map arity-of-method)
         sort
         (provided is-rest-fn
                   (fn [v] (append v :rest))))))
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