How to convert a list into JSON in Clojure?

Question

I have a list like below (some sort of ranking data, list is in order):

'(John Kelly Daniel)

and want to convert it into JSON like below:

[{"rank":1, "name":"John"},{"rank":2, "name":"Kelly"},{"rank":3, "name":"Daniel"}]

What would be the easiest and simplest way of doing this using json/write-str at the end?

Answer 1

As a complement for @leetwinski answer (and using their code)

(ns some-thing.core
  (:require [cheshire.core :refer :all]))

(def names '(John Kelly Daniel))

(defn add-rank [data]
  (map-indexed #(hash-map :rank (inc %1) :name (str %2)) data))

(-> names
    add-rank
    generate-string)