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                <div id="content-tag"><h1 id="overview">API for <span id="namespace-name">stream-utils</span>
  <span id="branch-name">(1.1.x branch)</span></h1>
by <span id="author">Konrad Hinsen</span><br />
<br />Usage:
<pre>
(ns your-namespace
  (:require <span id="long-name">clojure.contrib.stream-utils</span>))
</pre><pre>
</pre><h2>Overview</h2>
<pre id="namespace-docstr">Functions for setting up computational pipelines via data streams.

NOTE: This library is experimental. It may change significantly
      with future release.

This library defines:
- an abstract stream type, whose interface consists of the
  multimethod stream-next
- a macro for implementing streams
- implementations of stream for
  1) Clojure sequences, and vectors
  2) nil, representing an empty stream
- tools for writing stream transformers, including the
  monad stream-m
- various utility functions for working with streams

Streams are building blocks in the construction of computational
pipelines. A stream is represented by its current state plus
a function that takes a stream state and obtains the next item
in the stream as well as the new stream state. The state is
implemented as a Java class or a Clojure type (as defined by the
function clojure.core/type), and the function is provided as an
implementation of the multimethod stream-next for this class or type.

While setting up pipelines using this mechanism is somewhat more
cumbersome than using Clojure's lazy seq mechanisms, there are a
few advantages:
- The state of a stream can be stored in any Clojure data structure,
  and the stream can be re-generated from it any number of times.
  Any number of states can be stored this way.
- The elements of the stream are never cached, so keeping a reference
  to a stream state does not incur an uncontrollable memory penalty.

Note that the stream mechanism is thread-safe as long as the
concrete stream implementations do not use any mutable state.

Stream transformers take any number of input streams and produce one
output stream. They are typically written using the stream-m
monad. In the definition of a stream transformer, (pick s) returns
the next value of stream argument s, whereas pick-all returns the
next value of all stream arguments in the form of a vector.</pre>


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<h2>Public Variables and Functions</h2>
<div id="var-entry">
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/defst">defst</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (defst name args streams &amp; body)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Define the stream transformer name by body.
The non-stream arguments args and the stream arguments streams
are given separately, with args being possibly empty.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L183" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/defstream">defstream</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (defstream type-tag args &amp; body)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Define object of the given type as a stream whose implementation
of stream-next is defined by args and body. This macro adds
a type-specific method for stream-next and derives type
from stream-type.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L73" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/pick">pick</h2>
  <span id="var-type">function</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (pick n)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Return the next value of stream argument n inside a stream
transformer. When used inside of defst, the name of the stream
argument can be used instead of its index n.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L149" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/pick-all">pick-all</h2>
  <span id="var-type">function</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (pick-all streams)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Return a vector containing the next value of each stream argument
inside a stream transformer.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L160" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-drop">stream-drop</h2>
  <span id="var-type">function</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (stream-drop n stream)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Return a stream containing all but the first n elements of stream.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L201" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-filter">stream-filter</h2>
  <span id="var-type">multimethod</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (stream-filter p stream)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Return a new stream that contrains the elements of stream
that satisfy the predicate p.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L243" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-flatten">stream-flatten</h2>
  <span id="var-type">function</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (stream-flatten s)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Converts a stream of sequences into a stream of the elements of the
sequences. Flattening is not recursive, only one level of nesting
will be removed.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L271" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-m">stream-m</h2>
  <span id="var-type">var</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage"></pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Monad describing stream computations. The monadic values can be
of any type handled by stream-next.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L135" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-map">stream-map</h2>
  <span id="var-type">multimethod</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (stream-map f stream)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Return a new stream by mapping the function f on the given stream.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L219" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-next">stream-next</h2>
  <span id="var-type">multimethod</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (stream-next stream-state)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Returns a vector [next-value new-state] where next-value is the next
item in the data stream defined by stream-state and new-state
is the new state of the stream. At the end of the stream,
next-value and new-state are nil.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L91" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <hr />
  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-seq">stream-seq</h2>
  <span id="var-type">function</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (stream-seq s)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Return a lazy seq on the stream. Also accessible via
clojure.contrib.seq-utils/seq-on and
clojure.contrib.generic.collection/seq for streams.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L113" id="var-source">Source</a>
</div><div id="var-entry">
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  <hr />
  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.stream-utils/stream-type">stream-type</h2>
  <span id="var-type">var</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage"></pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">The root type for the stream hierarchy. For each stream type,
add a derivation from this type.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib/blob/09d39aca5a69a83f4326ffb0d4ba8f9fc15c9861/src/clojure/contrib/stream_utils.clj#L69" id="var-source">Source</a>
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