StackOverflow in compojure web project

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Published on 2010-04-30T22:39:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 23:17 UTC
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I've been playing around with clojure and have been using it to build a simple little audio player. The strange thing is that sometimes, maybe one out of twenty, when contact the server I will get the following error:

2010-04-20 15:33:20.963::WARN:  Error for /control
java.lang.StackOverflowError
    at clojure.lang.RT.seq(RT.java:440)
    at clojure.core$seq__4245.invoke(core.clj:105)
    at clojure.core$filter__5084$fn__5086.invoke(core.clj:1794)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval(LazySeq.java:42)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq(LazySeq.java:56)
    at clojure.lang.RT.seq(RT.java:440)
    at clojure.core$seq__4245.invoke(core.clj:105)
    at clojure.core$filter__5084$fn__5086.invoke(core.clj:1794)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval(LazySeq.java:42)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq(LazySeq.java:56)
    at clojure.lang.RT.seq(RT.java:440)
    at clojure.core$seq__4245.invoke(core.clj:105)
    at clojure.core$filter__5084$fn__5086.invoke(core.clj:1794)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval(LazySeq.java:42)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq(LazySeq.java:56)
    at clojure.lang.RT.seq(RT.java:440)
    at clojure.core$seq__4245.invoke(core.clj:105)
    at clojure.core$filter__5084$fn__5086.invoke(core.clj:1794)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval(LazySeq.java:42)
    at clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq(LazySeq.java:56)
    at clojure.lang.RT.seq(RT.java:440)
        ...

If I do it right after again it always works. So it appears to be related to timing or something. The code in question is:

(defn add-track [t]
  (common/ref-add tracks t))

(defn add-collection [coll]
  (doseq [track coll] (add-track track)))

and

(defn ref-add [ref value]
  (dosync (ref-set ref (conj @ref value))))

where coll is extracted from this function:

(defn tracks-by-album [album]
  (sort sort-tracks (filter #(= (:album %) album) @tracks)))

so it does appear to be the tracks-by-album function from the stack trace. I just don't see why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

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