how to use shapeless to detect field type annotation - scala

Question

I am trying to gather the fields of a case class that have a particular annotations at compile time using shapeless. I tried to play around the following snippet, but it did not work as expected (output nothing instead of printing "i"). How can I make it work ?
import shapeless._
import shapeless.labelled._
final class searchable() extends scala.annotation.StaticAnnotation
final case class Foo(#searchable i: Int, s: String)
trait Boo[A] {
def print(a: A): Unit
}
sealed trait Boo0 {
implicit def hnil = new Boo[HNil] { def print(hnil: HNil): Unit = () }
implicit def hlist[K <: Symbol, V, RL <: HList](implicit b: Boo[RL]): Boo[FieldType[K, V] :: RL] =
new Boo[FieldType[K, V] :: RL] {
def print(a: FieldType[K, V] :: RL): Unit = {
b.print(a.tail)
}
}
}
sealed trait Boo1 extends Boo0 {
implicit def hlist1[K <: Symbol, V, RL <: HList](implicit annot: Annotation[searchable, K], witness: Witness.Aux[K], b: Boo[RL]): Boo[FieldType[K, V] :: RL] =
new Boo[FieldType[K, V] :: RL] {
def print(a: FieldType[K, V] :: RL): Unit = {
Console.println(witness.value.name)
b.print(a.tail)
}
}
}
object Boo extends Boo1 {
implicit def generics[A, HL <: HList](implicit iso: LabelledGeneric.Aux[A, HL], boo: Boo[HL]): Boo[A] =
new Boo[A] {
def print(a: A): Unit = {
boo.print(iso.to(a))
}
}
}
implicitly[Boo[Foo]].print(Foo(1, "2"))

Answer 1

Looking at the macro of Annotation, it rejects type that is not a product or coproduct straight up
val annTreeOpts =
if (isProduct(tpe)) { ... }
else if (isCoproduct(tpe)) { ... }
else abort(s"$tpe is not case class like or the root of a sealed family of types")
this is quite unfortunate, as collecting type annotations at per field symbol level could be quite useful sometimes.
There is another type class Annotations defined in the same file that can actually collect particular annotations on field into an HList. However problem is the field information is totally lost. There is a clumsy way to hack things together to serve my use case...
// A is our annotation
// B is our result type
// C is our case class with some fields annotated with A
def empty: B = ???
def concat(b1: B, b2: B): B = ???
def func(a: A, nm: String): B = ???
object Collector extends Poly2 {
implicit def some[K <: Symbol](implicit witness: Witness.Aux[K]) =
at[B, (K, Some[A])] { case (b, (_, a)) => concat(b, func(a.get, witness.value.name)) }
implicit def none[K <: Symbol] = at[B, (K, None.type)] { case (b, _) => b }
}
def collect[HL <: HList, RL <: HList, KL <: HList, ZL <: HList](implicit
iso: LabelledGeneric.Aux[C, HL]
, annot: Annotations.Aux[A, C, RL]
, keys: Keys.Aux[HL, KL]
, zip: Zip.Aux[KL :: RL :: HNil, ZL]
, leftFolder: LeftFolder.Aux[ZL, B, Collector.type, B]): B = {
zip(keys() :: annot() :: HNil).foldLeft(empty)(Collector)
}