DSL Like Syntax in Scala - scala

Question

I'm trying to come up with a CSV Parser that can be called like this:
parser parse "/path/to/csv/file" using parserConfiguration
Where the parser will be a class that contains the target case class into which the CSV file will be parsed into:
class CSVParser[A] {
def parse(path: String) = Source.fromFile(fromFilePath).getLines().mkString("\n")
def using(cfg: ParserConfig) = ??? How do I chain this optionally???
}
val parser = CSVParser[SomeCaseClass]
I managed to get up to the point where I can call:
parser parse "/the/path/to/the/csv/file/"
But I do not want to run the parse method yet as I want to apply the configuration using the using like DSL as mentioned above! So there are two rules here. If the caller does not supply a parserConfig, I should be able to run with the default, but if the user supplies a parserConfig, I want to apply the config and then run the parse method. I tried it with a combination of implicits, but could not get them to work properly!
Any suggestions?
EDIT: So the solution looks like this as per comments from "Cyrille Corpet":
class CSVReader[A] {
def parse(path: String) = ReaderWithFile[A](path)
case class ReaderWithFile[A](path: String) {
def using(cfg: CSVParserConfig): Seq[A] = {
val lines = Source.fromFile(path).getLines().mkString("\n")
println(lines)
println(cfg)
null
}
}
object ReaderWithFile {
implicit def parser2parsed[A](parser: ReaderWithFile[A]): Seq[A] = parser.using(defaultParserCfg)
}
}
object CSVReader extends App {
def parser[A] = new CSVReader[A]
val sss: Seq[A] = parser parse "/csv-parser/test.csv" // assign this to a val so that the implicit conversion gets applied!! Very important to note!
}
I guess I need to get the implicit in scope at the location where I call the parser parse, but at the same time I do not want to mess up the structure that I have above!

Answer 1

If you replace using with an operator with a higher precedence than parse you can get it to work without needing extra type annotations. Take for instance <<:
object parsedsl {
class ParserConfig
object ParserConfig {
val default = new ParserConfig
}
case class ParseUnit(path: String, config: ParserConfig)
object ParseUnit {
implicit def path2PU(path: String) = ParseUnit(path, ParserConfig.default)
}
implicit class ConfigSyntax(path: String) {
def <<(config: ParserConfig) = ParseUnit(path, config)
}
class CSVParser {
def parse(pu: ParseUnit) = "parsing"
}
}
import parsedsl._
val parser = new CSVParser
parser parse "path" << ParserConfig.default
parser parse "path"

Answer 2

Your parse method should just give a partial result, without doing anything at all. To deal with default implem, you can use implicit conversion to output type:
class CSVParser[A] {
def parse(path: String) = ParserWithFile[A](path)
}
case class ParserWithFile[A](path: String) {
def using(cfg: ParserConfig): A = ???
}
object ParserWithFile {
implicit def parser2parsed[A](parser: ParserWithFile[A]): A = parser.using(ParserConfig.default)
}
val parser = CSVParser[SomeCaseClass]