Custom formatters (print-method) don't work via Java-style interop

[jakub-stastny]

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version

babashka v1.1.172

platform

Current macOS

problem

print-method seems broken.

repro

expected behavior

Clojure output in the screenshot is the expected behaviour.

[jakub-stastny]

(defprotocol Version (stringify [this] "Get string representation"))
(deftype QID [a b c d] Version (stringify [_] "test"))
(defmethod print-method QID [object out]
  (.write out (stringify object)))

(println "HERE")
(printin (.stringify (QID. 4 0 0 1)))
(println (QID. 4 0 0 1))

(defprotocol Version (toString [this] "Get string representation"))
(deftype QID [a b c d] Version (toString [-] "test"))

(println "HERE")
(println (. toString (QID. 4 0 0 1)))
(println (QID. 4 0 0 1))

[borkdude]

So (stringify (QID. 4 0 0 1)) does work and so does (str (QID. 4 0 0 1)) which are probably more idiomatic ways of doing the same as (.stringify ..) and (.toString..). But nonetheless it's something to look into and see if this difference can be fixed.