Clojure: destructure and rename with {:keys [...]}

Question

Is it possible to both destructure and rename keys in one go?

Consider this:

(let [{:keys [response]} {:response 1}]
  (println response))

However, if I want to instead refer to 1 as my-response, I have to do something like:

(let [{:keys [my-response]} (clojure.set/rename-keys {:response 1} {:response :my-response})]
  (println my-response))

Obviously this does not work with defn destructuring.

Is there any way in Clojure to both destructure and rename keys?

Answer 1

Use destructuring without :keys:

(let [{my-response :response} {:response 1}]
  (println my-response))

{:keys [response]} is syntactic sugar for {response :response}.

Answer 2

Here you go:

(let [{:keys [response]} {:response 1}
      my-response response]
   (println my-response))

For a better answer refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/57592661/2757027.

This answer is much closer to the question, but technically not single step. but this doesn't involve any complicated de-structuring.