I am trying to understand why exactly an implicit conversion is working in one case, but not in the other.
Here is an example:
case class Wrapper[T](wrapped: T)
trait Wrapping { implicit def wrapIt[T](x: Option[T]) = x.map(Wrapper(_))
class NotWorking extends Wrapping { def foo: Option[Wrapper[String]] = Some("foo") }
class Working extends Wrapping {
def foo: Option[Wrapper[String]] = {
val why = Some("foo")
why
}
}
Basically, I have an implicit conversion from Option[T] to Option[Wrapper[T]], and am trying to define a function, that returns an optional string, that gets implicitly wrapped.
The question is why, when I try to return Option[String] directly (NotWorking above), I get an error (found : String("foo") required: Wrapper[String]), that goes away if I assign the result to a val before returning it.
What gives?
I don't know if this is intended or would be considered a bug, but here is what I think is happening.
In def foo: Option[Wrapper[String]] = Some("foo") the compiler will set the expected type of the argument provided to Some( ) as Wrapper[String]. Then it sees that you provided a String which it is not what is expected, so it looks for an implicit conversion String => Wrapper[String], can't find one, and fails.
Why does it need that expected type stuff, and doesn't just type Some("foo") as Some[String] and afterwards try to find a conversion?
Because scalac wants to be able to typecheck the following code:
case class Invariant[T](t: T)
val a: Invariant[Any] = Invariant("s")
In order for this code to work, the compiler can't just type Invariant("s") as Invariant[String] because then compilation will fail as Invariant[String] is not a subtype of Invariant[Any]. The compiler needs to set the expected type of "s" to Any so that it can see that "s" is an instance of Any before it's too late.
In order for both this code and your code to work out correctly, I think the compiler would need some kind of backtracking logic which it doesn't seem to have, perhaps for good reasons.
The reason that your Working code does work, is that this kind of type inference does not span multiple lines. Analogously val a: Invariant[Any] = {val why = Invariant("s"); why} does not compile.
Related
Given:
case class Foo(x: BigDecimal)
I'd like to, at compile-time, build a List[Foo] where each Foo must have a BigDecimal value of 5.
So, I'd expect the following code to compile:
type Foo5Only = ???
val foos5: List[Foo5Only] = List(Foo(5), Foo(5))
But, I'd expect the following to fail to compile:
val bad: List[Foo5Only] = List(Foo(42))
I'm speculating that a shapeless Singleton type might be useful, but I don't actually understand it.
Note - I'm not interested, for this question, in an answer that results in using Either or Option.
As well as using shapeless' Nat type you could also use singleton types. Unfortunately Scala's built-in List type has covariance which gets in the way of type safety, but using a simple hand-crafted list type seems to work:
import shapeless.syntax.singleton._
sealed trait Lst[T]
case class Nil[T]() extends Lst[T]
case class Cons[T](head : T, tail : Lst[T]) extends Lst[T]
def list[T](t : T) : Lst[T] = {
Cons(t, Nil())
}
// OK
val foos5 = Cons(5.narrow, list(5.narrow))
// Compile-time type mismatch error.
val foos6 = Cons(42.narrow, list(5.narrow))
You might be able to elide the narrows with some macro-magic, but that's beyond my ability.
I'm trying to write a method which uses the isEmpty method on types String, Option and List. These classes don't share a common base trait with that method, so I've tried to pass an implicit EmptyChecker in with them:
trait EmptyChecker[Field] {
def isEmpty(data: Field): Boolean
}
implicit val StringEmptyChecker: EmptyChecker[String] = new EmptyChecker[String] {
def isEmpty(string: String): Boolean = string.isEmpty
}
def printEmptiness[Field](field: Field)(implicit emptyChecker: EmptyChecker[Field]): Unit = {
if (emptyChecker.isEmpty(field))
println("Empty")
else
println("Not empty")
}
printEmptiness("abc") // Works fine
The String empty checker works fine, but I've hit problems with making empty checkers for type constructors like Option and List.
For example, Option doesn't work:
implicit val OptionChecker: EmptyChecker[Option[_]] = new EmptyChecker[Option[_]] {
def isEmpty(option: Option[_]): Boolean = option.isEmpty
}
// Both fail compilation: "could not find implicit value for parameter emptyChecker: EmptyChecker[Some[Int]]
printEmptiness(Some(3))
printEmptiness[Option[Int]](Some(3))
If I use a specific Option[Int] checker, it works a little better, but is a bit ugly:
implicit val OptionIntChecker: EmptyChecker[Option[Int]] = new EmptyChecker[Option[Int]] {
def isEmpty(optionInt: Option[Int]): Boolean = optionInt.isEmpty
}
// Fails like above:
printEmptiness(Some(3))
// Passes compilation:
printEmptiness[Option[Int]](Some(3))
So my question is: is it possible to make a single EmptyChecker for each Option and List type and have them work with my method without needing to explicitly declare the type whenever I call it? I'm trying to get a type safe duck typing effect.
I'm using scala 2.11.6.
Thanks in advance!
The source of your problem is that the type of Some(1) is Some[Int], not Option[Int]. There are a couple of ways around this; you can explicitly upcast the expression with a type ascription: printEmptiness(Some(3): Option[Int]). Alternatively, you can define a helper method to do this for you automatically, and if you're using Scalaz, there's one of these provided:
import scalaz.syntax.std.option._
printEmptiness(3.some)
Furthermore if you do use Scalaz, you may find looking at the PlusEmpty/ApplicativePlus/MonadPlus type classes useful.
I want to reify a ValDef into runtime, but i does not work directly. If i encapsulate the ValDef into a Block, everything works perfectly, like in the following example:
case class Container(expr: Expr[Any])
def lift(expr: Any): Container = macro reifyValDef
def reifyValDef(c: Context)(expr: c.Expr[Any]): c.Expr[Container] = {
import c.universe._
expr.tree match {
case Block(List(v: ValDef), _) =>
val asBlock = q"{$v}"
val toRuntime = q"scala.reflect.runtime.universe.reify($asBlock)"
c.Expr[Container](q"Container($toRuntime)")
}
}
lift {
val x: Int = 10
}
If i would use v directly, instead of wrapping it into a block, I get the error:
Error:(10, 11) type mismatch;
found :
required: Any
Note that extends Any, not AnyRef.
Such types can participate in value classes, but instances
cannot appear in singleton types or in reference comparisons.
val x: Int = 10
^
Is it just not working directly with ValDefs or is something wrong with my code?
That's one of the known issues in the reflection API. Definitions are technically not expressions, so you can't e.g. pass them directly as arguments to functions. Wrapping the definition in a block is a correct way of addressing the block.
The error message is of course confusing, but it does make some twisted sense. To signify the fact that a definition by itself doesn't have a type, the tpe field of the corresponding Tree is set to NoType. Then the type of the argument of a macro is checked against Any and the check fails (because NoType is a special type, which isn't compatible with anything), so a standard error message is printed. The awkward printout is an artifact of how the prettyprinter behaves in this weird situation.
I am trying to test whether two "containers" use the same higher-kinded type. Look at the following code:
import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
class Funct[A[_],B]
class Foo[A : TypeTag](x: A) {
def test[B[_]](implicit wt: WeakTypeTag[B[_]]) =
println(typeOf[A] <:< weakTypeOf[Funct[B,_]])
def print[B[_]](implicit wt: WeakTypeTag[B[_]]) = {
println(typeOf[A])
println(weakTypeOf[B[_]])
}
}
val x = new Foo(new Funct[Option,Int])
x.test[Option]
x.print[Option]
The output is:
false
Test.Funct[Option,Int]
scala.Option[_]
However, I expect the conformance test to succeed. What am I doing wrong? How can I test for higher-kinded types?
Clarification
In my case, the values I am testing (the x: A in the example) come in a List[c.Expr[Any]] in a Macro. So any solution relying on static resolution (as the one I have given), will not solve my problem.
It's the mixup between underscores used in type parameter definitions and elsewhere. The underscore in TypeTag[B[_]] means an existential type, hence you get a tag not for B, but for an existential wrapper over it, which is pretty much useless without manual postprocessing.
Consequently typeOf[Funct[B, _]] that needs a tag for raw B can't make use of the tag for the wrapper and gets upset. By getting upset I mean it refuses to splice the tag in scope and fails with a compilation error. If you use weakTypeOf instead, then that one will succeed, but it will generate stubs for everything it couldn't splice, making the result useless for subtyping checks.
Looks like in this case we really hit the limits of Scala in the sense that there's no way for us to refer to raw B in WeakTypeTag[B], because we don't have kind polymorphism in Scala. Hopefully something like DOT will save us from this inconvenience, but in the meanwhile you can use this workaround (it's not pretty, but I haven't been able to come up with a simpler approach).
import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
object Test extends App {
class Foo[B[_], T]
// NOTE: ideally we'd be able to write this, but since it's not valid Scala
// we have to work around by using an existential type
// def test[B[_]](implicit tt: WeakTypeTag[B]) = weakTypeOf[Foo[B, _]]
def test[B[_]](implicit tt: WeakTypeTag[B[_]]) = {
val ExistentialType(_, TypeRef(pre, sym, _)) = tt.tpe
// attempt #1: just compose the type manually
// but what do we put there instead of question marks?!
// appliedType(typeOf[Foo], List(TypeRef(pre, sym, Nil), ???))
// attempt #2: reify a template and then manually replace the stubs
val template = typeOf[Foo[Hack, _]]
val result = template.substituteSymbols(List(typeOf[Hack[_]].typeSymbol), List(sym))
println(result)
}
test[Option]
}
// has to be top-level, otherwise the substituion magic won't work
class Hack[T]
An astute reader will notice that I used WeakTypeTag in the signature of foo, even though I should be able to use TypeTag. After all, we call foo on an Option which is a well-behaved type, in the sense that it doesn't involve unresolved type parameters or local classes that pose problems for TypeTags. Unfortunately, it's not that simple because of https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7686, so we're forced to use a weak tag even though we shouldn't need to.
The following is an answer that works for the example I have given (and might help others), but does not apply to my (non-simplified) case.
Stealing from #pedrofurla's hint, and using type-classes:
trait ConfTest[A,B] {
def conform: Boolean
}
trait LowPrioConfTest {
implicit def ctF[A,B] = new ConfTest[A,B] { val conform = false }
}
object ConfTest extends LowPrioConfTest {
implicit def ctT[A,B](implicit ev: A <:< B) =
new ConfTest[A,B] { val conform = true }
}
And add this to Foo:
def imp[B[_]](implicit ct: ConfTest[A,Funct[B,_]]) =
println(ct.conform)
Now:
x.imp[Option] // --> true
x.imp[List] // --> false
I'd like an extractor to implicitly convert its parameters, but it doesn't seem to work. Consider this very simple case:
case class MyString(s: String) {}
implicit def string2mystring(x: String): MyString = new MyString(x)
implicit def mystring2string(x: MyString) = x.s
object Apply {
def unapply(s: MyString): Option[String] = Some(s)
}
But I'm not able to use it as I would expect:
val Apply(z) = "a" // error: scrutinee is incompatible with pattern type
Can anyone explain why it fails to convert the parameter from String to MyString? I would expect it to call string2mystring("a") on the fly. Clearly I could work around the issue by saying val Apply(y) = MyString("a"), but it doesn't seem like I should have to do that.
Note: This question is similar to this one, but 1) that one doesn't really have a good answer for why this is happening, 2) the example is more complex than it needs to be.
Implicit conversions are not applied when pattern matching. That's not a bug or a problem with your code, it's simply a design decision of the creators of Scala.
To fix it, you should write another extractor that accepts a String — which in turn can call your implicit conversion.
Alternatively, you can try with a view bound, which seems to work as well, and will also work if you later define other implicit conversions to MyString:
object Apply {
def unapply[S <% MyString](s: S): Option[String] = Some(s.s)
}