Tuple seen as Product, compiler rejects reference to element - scala

Question

Constructing phoneVector:
val phoneVector = (
for (i <- 1 until 20) yield {
val p = killNS(r.get("Phone %d - Value" format(i)))
val t = killNS(r.get("Phone %d - Type" format(i)))
if (p == None) None
else
if (t == None) (p,"Main") else (p,t)
}
).filter(_ != None)
Consider this very simple snippet:
for (pTuple <- phoneVector) {
println(pTuple.getClass.getName)
println(pTuple)
//val pKey = pTuple._1.replaceAll("[^\\d]","")
associate() // stub prints "associate"
}
When I run it, I see output like this:
scala.Tuple2
([phone],Mobile)
associate
When I uncomment the line with replaceAll(), compile fails:
....scala:57: value _1 is not a member of Product with Serializable
[error] val pKey = pTuple._1.replaceAll("[^\\d]","")
[error] ^
Why does it not recognize pTuple as a Tuple2 and treat it only as Product

Answer 1

OK, this compiles and produces the desired result. But it's too verbose. Can someone please demonstrate a more concise solution for dealing with this typesafe stuff?
for (pTuple <- phoneVector) {
println(pTuple.getClass.getName)
println(pTuple)
val pPhone = pTuple match {
case t:Tuple2[_,_] => t._1
case _ => None
}
val pKey = pPhone match {
case s:String => s.replaceAll("[^\\d]","")
case _ => None
}
println(pKey)
associate()
}

Answer 2

You can do:
for (pTuple <- phoneVector) {
val pPhone = pTuple match {
case (key, value) => key
case _ => None
}
val pKey = pPhone match {
case s:String => s.replaceAll("[^\\d]","")
case _ => None
}
println(pKey)
associate()
}
Or simply phoneVector.map(_._1.replaceAll("[^\\d]",""))

Answer 3

By changing the construction of phoneVector, as wrick's question implied, I've been able to eliminate the match/case stuff because Tuple is assured. Not thrilled by it, but Change is Hard, and Scala seems cool.
Now, it's still possible to slip a None value into either of the Tuple values. My match/case does not check for that, and I suspect that could lead to a runtime error in the replaceAll call. How is that allowed?
def killNS (s:Option[_]) = {
(s match {
case _:Some[_] => s.get
case _ => None
}) match {
case None => None
case "" => None
case s => s
}
}
val phoneVector = (
for (i <- 1 until 20) yield {
val p = killNS(r.get("Phone %d - Value" format(i)))
val t = killNS(r.get("Phone %d - Type" format(i)))
if (t == None) (p,"Main") else (p,t)
}
).filter(_._1 != None)
println(phoneVector)
println(name)
println
// Create the Neo4j nodes:
for (pTuple <- phoneVector) {
val pPhone = pTuple._1 match { case p:String => p }
val pType = pTuple._2
val pKey = pPhone.replaceAll(",.*","").replaceAll("[^\\d]","")
associate(Map("target"->Map("label"->"Phone","key"->pKey,
"dial"->pPhone),
"relation"->Map("label"->"IS_AT","key"->pType),
"source"->Map("label"->"Person","name"->name)
)
)
}
}