Extension point

In former versions of mount-lite the API gave you more fine-grained influence on what states are started or stopped when calling start or stop. You could tell mount to only start/stop certain states, or start/stop all states except some. You could tell mount to determine the dependencies of a state more accurately by building a dependency graph using the tools.namespace library.

These features have been removed from the API, for various reasons. However, an extension point is available, in case you want these or other features that influence what is started or stopped. Future versions of mount-lite may even provide implementations for these, using the extension point discussed below. In any case, the core API and implementation is not affected by these features and can be kept simple and lite.

The *states* dynamic var

The root binding of the dynamic *states* var is used by the internals of mount-lite to keep track of what global defstates have been defined, and in what order. The root binding is an atom of namespaced keywords, which can be resolved back to the defstate vars. These keywords are automatically pruned, in case some defstate may have been unmapped.

The start and stop functions read from the atom in the *states* var, to determine what states are available for starting or stopping. By binding the *states* var to an atom of your own, holding a different set of namespaced keywords, you effectively influence the start and stop function in this regard.

Do not fiddle with the root binding of the *states* var directly!

Bringing back "only"

For example, if you'd really need the only option back, you could do the following:

(defmacro with-only
  [states & body]
  `(binding [*states* (atom (map var->keyword ~states))]
     ~@body))