Is it possible to do something like below? We have a ConcreteType which has trait definition and Object definition. At runtime I want to create Object version to access get method of some ConcreteType. Note code below throws cannot cast to SomeTrait exception at asInstanceOf. Also I am using some library that uses format below so have no choice but to work with this construct.
trait SomeType
trait SomeTrait[T <: SomeType] {
def get(i: Int): Option[SomeType]
}
trait ConcreteType extends SomeType
object ConcreteType extends SomeTrait[ConcreteType]
def temp[T <: SomeType]()(implicit tag: ClassTag[T]): Option[T] = {
asInstanceOf[SomeTrait[T]].get(1)
}
I'm not sure what you're doing (I asked several questions in comments), but yes, you can get the object from ClassTag
import scala.reflect.ClassTag
import scala.reflect.runtime
def temp[T <: SomeType]()(implicit tag: ClassTag[T]): Option[/*T*/SomeType] = {
val runtimeMirror = runtime.currentMirror
val classSymbol = runtimeMirror.classSymbol(tag.runtimeClass)
val companionSymbol = classSymbol.companion.asModule
val companionModuleMirror = runtimeMirror.reflectModule(companionSymbol)
val companionInstance = companionModuleMirror.instance
companionInstance.asInstanceOf[SomeTrait[T]].get(1)
}
temp[ConcreteType]()
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I'm trying to solve a problem that may not be possible in Scala.
I want to have a Trait to solve default constructors
trait Builder[T <: Buildable] {
def build(code: String): T = new T(code)
def build: T = new T("bar")
}
So extending the Trait on the companion object automatically has access to functions that creates the class with specific constructors and parameters
class A(code: String) extends Buildable
object A extends Builder[A]
Extending the Trait, the companion object has the constructors
A.build("foo")
A.build
Is this possible in Scala?
Also tried abstract classes, but hadn't had any success
trait Builder[T <: BuildableClass] {
def build(code: String): T = new T(code)
def build: T = new T("bar")
}
abstract class BuildableClass(code: String)
class A(code: String) extends BuildableClass(code)
object A extends Builder[A]
Thanks in advance
Edit: currently locked on Scala 2.12
Because of the type erasure, in ordinary code new T is allowed only for class type T, not an abstract type/type parameter.
In Scala, is it possible to instantiate an object of generic type T?
How to create an instance of type T at runtime with TypeTags
Class type required but T found
An alternative to runtime reflection (see #StanislavKovalenko's answer) is macros. new T is possible there because during macro expansion T is not erased yet.
import scala.language.experimental.macros
import scala.reflect.macros.blackbox // libraryDependencies += scalaOrganization.value % "scala-reflect" % scalaVersion.value
abstract class BuildableClass(code: String)
trait Builder[T <: BuildableClass] {
def build(code: String): T = macro BuilderMacros.buildImpl[T]
def build: T = macro BuilderMacros.buildDefaultImpl[T]
}
class BuilderMacros(val c: blackbox.Context) {
import c.universe._
def buildImpl[T: WeakTypeTag](code: Tree): Tree = q"new ${weakTypeOf[T]}($code)"
def buildDefaultImpl[T: WeakTypeTag]: Tree = q"""new ${weakTypeOf[T]}("bar")"""
}
// in a different subproject
class A(code:String) extends BuildableClass(code)
object A extends Builder[A]
A.build("foo") // scalac: new A("foo")
A.build // scalac: new A("bar")
Alternative implementations:
trait Builder[T <: BuildableClass] {
def build(code: String): T = macro BuilderMacros.buildImpl
def build: T = macro BuilderMacros.buildDefaultImpl
}
class BuilderMacros(val c: blackbox.Context) {
import c.universe._
val tpe = c.prefix.tree.tpe.baseType(symbolOf[Builder[_]]).typeArgs.head
def buildImpl(code: Tree): Tree = q"new $tpe($code)"
def buildDefaultImpl: Tree = q"""new $tpe("bar")"""
}
class BuilderMacros(val c: blackbox.Context) {
import c.universe._
val symb = c.prefix.tree.symbol.companion
def buildImpl(code: Tree): Tree = q"new $symb($code)"
def buildDefaultImpl: Tree = q"""new $symb("bar")"""
}
class BuilderMacros(val c: blackbox.Context) {
import c.universe._
val tpe = c.prefix.tree.tpe.companion
def buildImpl(code: Tree): Tree = q"new $tpe($code)"
def buildDefaultImpl: Tree = q"""new $tpe("bar")"""
}
class BuilderMacros(val c: blackbox.Context) {
import c.universe._
val tpe = symbolOf[Builder[_]].typeParams.head.asType.toType
.asSeenFrom(c.prefix.tree.tpe, symbolOf[Builder[_]])
def buildImpl(code: Tree): Tree = q"new $tpe($code)"
def buildDefaultImpl: Tree = q"""new $tpe("bar")"""
}
One of the potential solution that uses a reflection looks a bit ugly, but it works.
import scala.reflect._
trait Builder[T <: Buildable] {
def build(code: String)(implicit ct: ClassTag[T]): T =
ct.runtimeClass.getConstructors()(0).newInstance(code).asInstanceOf[T]
def build(implicit ct: ClassTag[T]): T =
ct.runtimeClass.getConstructors()(0).newInstance("bar").asInstanceOf[T]
}
trait Buildable
class A(code: String) extends Buildable {
def getCode = code
}
object A extends Builder[A]
val a: A = A.build
println(a.getCode)
The problem is that your Builder trait doesn't know anything about how to construct your instances. You can get this info from runtime with reflection or from compile time with macros.
Found a much cleaner solution to this problem without using macros / reflection / implicits
trait Buildable
trait Builder[T <: Buildable] {
self =>
def apply(code: String): T
def build: T = self.apply("foo")
def build(code: String): T = self.apply(code)
}
case class A(code: String) extends Buildable {
def getCode: String = code
}
object A extends Builder[A]
A.build("bar").getCode
A.build.getCode
I want to leverage Scala reflection to implicitly pass a ClassTag.
There are plenty solutions on StackOverflow on how to accomplish this.
import scala.reflect.ClassTag
// animal input
trait AnimalInput {}
case class DogInput() extends AnimalInput
case class CatInput() extends AnimalInput
// animals
trait Animal[T <: AnimalInput] {
def getInput(implicit ct: ClassTag[T]): Class[T] = {
ct.runtimeClass.asInstanceOf[Class[T]]
}
}
object Dog extends Animal[DogInput] {}
object Cat extends Animal[CatInput] {}
I can test that this is working well:
println(Dog.getInput) // Success: "DogInput"
println(Cat.getInput) // Success: "CatInput"
The problem is, the second I reference these objects in any collection, I run into trouble:
// Failure: "No ClassTag available for animal.T"
List(Dog, Cat).foreach(animal => println(animal.getInput))
I think I understand why this is happening but I'm not sure how to work around it.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Actually, I can't reproduce No ClassTag available for animal.T. Your code compiles and runs in Scala 2.13.9:
https://scastie.scala-lang.org/DmytroMitin/lonnNg0fR1qb4Lg7ChDBqg
Maybe by failure you meant that for collection you don't receive classes DogInput, CatInput.
Actually, I managed to reproduce No ClassTag available for animal.T for type member T <: AnimalInput rather than type parameter: https://scastie.scala-lang.org/v79Y37eDRXuoauWA9b8uhQ
This question is very close to recent question Trying to extract the TypeTag of a Sequence of classes that extend a trait with different generic type parameters
See the reasons there.
Either use a heterogeneous collection
object classPoly extends Poly1 {
implicit def cse[T <: AnimalInput : ClassTag, A](implicit
ev: A <:< Animal[T]
): Case.Aux[A, Class[T]] =
at(_ => classTag[T].runtimeClass.asInstanceOf[Class[T]])
}
(Dog :: Cat :: HNil).map(classPoly).toList.foreach(println)
// class DogInput
// class CatInput
or use runtime reflection
trait Animal[T <: AnimalInput] {
def getInput: Class[T] = {
val classSymbol = runtimeMirror.classSymbol(this.getClass)
val animalSymbol = typeOf[Animal[_]].typeSymbol
val extendeeType = classSymbol.typeSignature.baseType(animalSymbol)
val extenderSymbol = extendeeType.typeArgs.head.typeSymbol.asClass
runtimeMirror.runtimeClass(extenderSymbol).asInstanceOf[Class[T]]
}
}
List(Dog, Cat).foreach(animal => println(animal.getInput))
// class DogInput
// class CatInput
The easiest is
trait Animal[T <: AnimalInput] {
def getInput: Class[T]
}
object Dog extends Animal[DogInput] {
val getInput = classOf[DogInput]
}
object Cat extends Animal[CatInput] {
val getInput = classOf[CatInput]
}
One more option is magnet pattern (1 2 3 4 5 6)
trait AnimalMagnet[T <: AnimalInput] {
def getInput: Class[T]
}
import scala.language.implicitConversions
implicit def animalToMagnet[A, T <: AnimalInput : ClassTag](a: A)(implicit
ev: A <:< Animal[T]
): AnimalMagnet[T] = new AnimalMagnet[T] {
override def getInput: Class[T] = classTag[T].runtimeClass.asInstanceOf[Class[T]]
}
List[AnimalMagnet[_]](Dog, Cat).foreach(animal => println(animal.getInput))
//class DogInput
//class CatInput
Also you can move ClassTag implicit from the method to the trait (and make the trait an abstract class)
abstract class Animal[T <: AnimalInput](implicit ct: ClassTag[T]) {
def getInput: Class[T] = ct.runtimeClass.asInstanceOf[Class[T]]
}
List(Dog, Cat).foreach(animal => println(animal.getInput))
// class DogInput
// class CatInput
I have this minimal example, I want to create encoders/decoders with circe semi-automatic derivation for the generic case class A[T]
import io.circe.{Decoder, Encoder}
import io.circe.generic.semiauto._
import io.circe.syntax._
sealed trait MyTrait
object MyTrait {
implicit val encoder: Encoder[MyTrait] = deriveEncoder
implicit val decoder: Decoder[MyTrait] = deriveDecoder
}
case class A[T](value: T) extends MyTrait
object A {
implicit def encoder[T: Encoder]: Encoder[A[T]] = deriveEncoder
implicit def decoder[T: Decoder]: Decoder[A[T]] = deriveDecoder
}
This codes does not compile and instead outputs this error
could not find Lazy implicit value of type io.circe.generic.encoding.DerivedAsObjectEncoder[A]
And the same for the decoder
What Am I doing wrong here and how can I get it working?
There are few issues. One is that MyTrait Encoder/Decoder will try to dispatch encodeing/decoding into codecs for the subtypes - since e thtrait is sealed all possible traits are known, so such list can be obtained by compiler.
BUT
While MyTrait trait does not take type parameters, its only implementation A takes. Which basically turns it into an existential type.
val myTrait: MyTrait = A(10)
myTrait match {
case A(x) =>
// x is of unknown type, at best you could use runtime reflection
// but codecs are generated with compile time reflection
}
Even if you wanted to make these codecs manually, you have no way of doing it
object Scope {
def aEncoder[T: Encoder]: Encoder[A[T]] = ...
val myTraitEncoder: Encoder[MyTrait] = {
case A(value) =>
// value is of unknown type, how to decide what Encoder[T]
// pass into aEncoder?
}
}
For similar reasons you couldn't manually implement Decoder.
To be able to implement codec manually (which is kind of prerequisite to being able to generate it), you can only remove type parameters as you go into subclasses, never add them.
sealed trait MyTrait[T]
case class A[T](value: T) extends MyTrait[T]
This would make it possible to know what kind of T is inside A since it would be passed from MyTrait, so you could write your codec manually and they would work.
Another problem is that reliable generation of ADT's usually require some configuration, e.g. whether or not to use discimination field. And that is provided by circe-generic-extras. Once you use it, (semi)automatic derivation is possible:
import io.circe.{Decoder, Encoder}
import io.circe.generic.extras.Configuration
import io.circe.generic.extras.semiauto._
import io.circe.syntax._
// can be used to tweak e.g. discriminator field name
implicit val config: Configuration = Configuration.default
sealed trait MyTrait[T]
object MyTrait {
implicit def encoder[T: Encoder]: Encoder[MyTrait[A]] = deriveEncoder
implicit def decoder[T: Decoder]: Decoder[MyTrait[A]] = deriveDecoder
}
case class A[T](value: T) extends MyTrait[T]
object A {
implicit def encoder[T: Encoder]: Encoder[A[T]] = deriveEncoder
implicit def decoder[T: Decoder]: Decoder[A[T]] = deriveDecoder
}
Among other solutions to the problem, if you really didn't want to use type parameter in MyTrait but have polymorphism in A would be to replace umbound, generic A with another ADT (or sum type in Scala 3), so that list of all possible implementations would be known and enumerated.
// x is of unknown type, at best you could use runtime reflection
I'll just comment that in principle you can define Decoder with runtime reflection (runtime compilation) based on the class of value in case class A[T](value: T)
sealed trait MyTrait
case class A[T](value: T) extends MyTrait
object A {
// custom codecs
implicit val intEnc: Encoder[A[Int]] = new Encoder[A[Int]] {
override def apply(a: A[Int]): Json = Json.obj("A" -> Json.obj("value" -> Json.fromInt(a.value)))
}
implicit val strEnc: Encoder[A[String]] = new Encoder[A[String]] {
override def apply(a: A[String]): Json = Json.obj("value" -> Json.fromString(a.value))
}
implicit val boolEnc: Encoder[A[Boolean]] = new Encoder[A[Boolean]] {
override def apply(a: A[Boolean]): Json = Json.fromBoolean(a.value)
}
}
val Integer = classOf[Integer]
val Boolean = classOf[java.lang.Boolean]
def primitiveClass[T](runtimeClass: Class[_]): Class[_] = runtimeClass match {
case `Integer` => classOf[Int]
case `Boolean` => classOf[Boolean]
//...
case _ => runtimeClass
}
object MyTrait {
implicit val encoder: Encoder[MyTrait] = new Encoder[MyTrait] {
override def apply(a: MyTrait): Json = a match {
case a1#A(t) =>
tb.eval(q"implicitly[io.circe.Encoder[A[${rm.classSymbol(primitiveClass(t.getClass)).toType}]]]")
.asInstanceOf[Encoder[A[_]]]
.apply(a1)
}
}
}
(A(1): MyTrait).asJson.noSpaces // {"A":{"value":1}}
(A("a"): MyTrait).asJson.noSpaces //{"value":"a"}
(A(true): MyTrait).asJson.noSpaces //true
But for case class A[T](value: Int) such trick would be impossible.
Is it possible to define partially parameterize generic implicit class ? For instance assume I have following class
implicit class IoExt[L, R](val io: IO[R]) {
def wrapped(errorCode: String): IO[Either[ProcessingResult[L], R]] = ???
}
How can I defined something like
type IoExtLocal[R] = IoExt[String, R]
And have IoExtLocal[R] be available as implicit class ?
The motivation is to free client code from specifying type parameter every time wrapped[](..) is called. It gets very verbose.
Just create another implicit class and import necessary one
object ioExt {
implicit class IoExt[L, R](val io: IO[R]) extends AnyVal {
def wrapped(errorCode: String): IO[Either[ProcessingResult[L], R]] = ???
}
}
object ioExtLocal {
implicit class IoExtLocal[R](val io: IO[R]) extends AnyVal {
def wrapped(errorCode: String): IO[Either[ProcessingResult[String], R]] =
(io: ioExt.IoExt[String, R]).wrapped(errorCode)
}
}
import ioExtLocal._
trait SomeR
val x: IO[SomeR] = ???
x.wrapped(???)
After trying multiple solutions I've found that following works without instantiating helper class on every call to wrapped
trait IoExtTrait[L, R] extends Any {
protected def io: IO[R]
def wrapped(errorCode: String): IO[Either[ProcessingResult[L], R]] =
io.attempt.map(_.leftMap(ex ⇒ FailureMsg[L](errorCode, Some(ex))))
def wrappedT(errorCode: String): EitherT[IO, ProcessingResult[L], R] =
EitherT(wrapped(errorCode))
}
implicit class IoExtLocalString[R](protected val io: IO[R]) extends AnyVal with IoExtTrait[String, R] {
override def wrapped(errorCode: String) = super.wrapped(errorCode)
}
on the other hand following instantiates helper class on every call
implicit class IoExtLocalString[R](protected val io: IO[R]) extends AnyVal with IoExtTrait[String, R] {}
If anyone know why it happens please let me know. I'm on Scala 2.12.8 (same behavior with 2.13-RC1).
Further conversation at https://github.com/scala/bug/issues/11526 confirmed that allocation happens on both cases. Too bad.
I'm creating custom json readers for case classes but it can't find implicit JsonReader type class for List[T] which is used in other case class.
When I checked DefaultJsonProtocol, it has implicit format for collections already;
implicit def listFormat[T :JsonFormat] = new RootJsonFormat[List[T]] {
def write(list: List[T]) = JsArray(list.map(_.toJson).toVector)
def read(value: JsValue): List[T] = value match {
case JsArray(elements) => elements.map(_.convertTo[T])(collection.breakOut)
case x => deserializationError("Expected List as JsArray, but got " + x)
}
}
Here is the simplified code;
case class Test(i: Int, d: Double)
case class ListOfTest(t: List[Test])
trait TestResultFormat extends DefaultJsonProtocol {
import CustomFormat._
implicit object TestJsonFormat extends RootJsonReader[Test] {
override def read(json: JsValue): Test = {
val jsObject = json.asJsObject
val jsFields = jsObject.fields
val i = jsFields.get("i").map(_.convertTo[Int]).getOrElse(0)
val d = jsFields.get("d").map(_.convertTo[Double]).getOrElse(0d)
Test(i, d)
}
}
implicit object ListOfTestJsonFormat extends RootJsonReader[ListOfTest] {
override def read(json: JsValue): ListOfTest = {
val jsObject = json.asJsObject
val jsFields = jsObject.fields
val tests = jsFields.get("hs").map(_.convertTo[List[Test]]).getOrElse(List.empty)
ListOfTest(tests)
}
}
}
Here is the errors;
Error:(230, 53) not enough arguments for method convertTo: (implicit evidence$1: spray.json.JsonReader[List[com.xx.Test]])List[com.xx.Test].
Unspecified value parameter evidence$1.
val tests = jsFields.get("hs").map(_.convertTo[List[Test]]).getOrElse(List.empty)
^
Error:(230, 53) Cannot find JsonReader or JsonFormat type class for List[com.xx.Test]
val tests = jsFields.get("hs").map(_.convertTo[List[Test]]).getOrElse(List.empty)
^
I think the problem is related to the fact that the JsonReader for List[T] in DefaultJsonProtocol is a RootJsonFormat (not a RootJsonReader), which basically means you can read it and also write it. So, when you try to read a List[Item], it's expected that you are also able to write Items. So, you could use RootJsonFormat instead and throw an exception in case you try to write it (since you don't support it). For example:
import spray.json._
implicit object TestJsonFormat extends RootJsonFormat[Test] {
override def read(json: JsValue): Test = {
val jsObject = json.asJsObject
val jsFields = jsObject.fields
val i = jsFields.get("i").map(_.convertTo[Int]).getOrElse(0)
val d = jsFields.get("d").map(_.convertTo[Double]).getOrElse(0d)
Test(i, d)
}
override def write(obj: Test): JsValue = serializationError("not supported")
}
If you are aware of a clean solution involving only the readers, please do let me know because I ran into this problem myself and couldn't find anything else.
I have learned that limitation comes from spray-json:
spray-json 's type class infrastructure is build around the (Root)JsonFormat type, not the (Root)JsonReader. So you'll indeed have to provide a "Format" even if you are just reading.
Check here.
To overcome issue; I created another trait extends RootJsonFormat instead of reader and overrides write method with basically not implemented method.
trait EmptyWriterFormat[T] extends RootJsonFormat[T] {
override def write(o: T): JsValue = ???
}