From 24f5376bf9bb2f466d532f5174dd5161cc5e3a3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chas Emerick <chas@cemerick.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:19:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add :default write-bencode method in order to throw a useful
 exception

---
 src/main/clojure/clojure/tools/nrepl/bencode.clj | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/clojure/clojure/tools/nrepl/bencode.clj b/src/main/clojure/clojure/tools/nrepl/bencode.clj
index 84c83c2..86ec5aa 100644
--- a/src/main/clojure/clojure/tools/nrepl/bencode.clj
+++ b/src/main/clojure/clojure/tools/nrepl/bencode.clj
@@ -325,6 +325,10 @@
           (.isArray (class thing)))
       :list)))
 
+(defmethod write-bencode :default
+  [output x]
+  (throw (IllegalArgumentException. (str "Cannot write value of type " (class x)))))
+
 ;; The following methods should be pretty straight-forward.
 ;;
 ;; The easiest case is of course when we already have a byte array.