<p>In addition to the macros and functions provided to build a Clojure API for native libraries, facilities are provided for taking data and loading all the symbols specified by it. This can be useful if a library provides (or an external provider maintains) a data representation of their API, as Clojure data to represent it may be programmatically generated from these sources.</p>
<p>The data to represent an API is a map with the following form:</p>
<p>Each key in this map represents a single symbol to be loaded. The value is a map with at least the keys <code>:type</code> and <code>:symbol</code>. These are the currently recognized types:</p>
<ul>
<li>function</li>
<li>varargs-factory</li>
<li>const</li>
<li>static-var</li>
</ul>
<p>Each one has its own set of additional keys which can be added to the map. Both <code>function</code> and <code>varargs-factory</code> have the three keys <code>:function/args</code>, <code>:function/ret</code>, and <code>:function/raw-fn?</code>. The <code>const</code> type has <code>:const/type</code> and <code>static-var</code> has <code>:static-var/type</code>.</p>
<p>This data can be passed to the function <code>reify-libspec</code>, which will take the data and return a map from the same keys as the input map to whatever value is appropriate for a given symbol type (e.g. a Clojure function for <code>function</code>, a value for <code>const</code>, etc.).</p>
<p>This functionality can be extended by specifying new types as implementations of the multimethod <code>reify-symbolspec</code>, although it’s recommended that for any library authors who do so, namespaced keywords be used to name types.</p>