Scala Slick: Issues with groupBy and missing shapes - scala

Question

I'm trying to use Slick to query a many-to-many relationship, but I'm running into a variety of errors, the most prominent being "Don't know how to unpack (User, Skill) to T and pack to G".
The structure of the tables is similar to the following:
case class User(val name: String, val picture: Option[URL], val id: Option[UUID])
object Users extends Table[User]("users") {
def name = column[String]("name")
def picture = column[Option[URL]]("picture")
def id = column[UUID]("id")
def * = name ~ picture ~ id.? <> (User, User.unapply _)
}
case class Skill(val name: String, val id: Option[UUID])
object Skills extends Table[Skill]("skill") {
def name = column[String]("name")
def id = column[UUID]("id")
def * = name ~ id.? <> (Skill, Skill.unapply _)
}
case class UserSkill(val userId: UUID, val skillId: UUID, val id: Option[UUID])
object UserSkills extends Table[UserSkill]("user_skill") {
def userId = column[UUID]("userId")
def skillId = column[UUID]("skillId")
def id = column[UUID]("id")
def * = userId ~ skillId ~ id.? <> (UserSkill, UserSkill.unapply _)
def user = foreignKey("userFK", userId, Users)(_.id)
def skill = foreignKey("skillFK", skillId, Skills)(_.id)
}
Ultimately, what I want to achieve is something of the form
SELECT u.*, group_concat(s.name) FROM user_skill us, users u, skills s WHERE us.skillId = s.id && us.userId = u.id GROUP BY u.id
but before I spend the time trying to get group_concat to work as well, I have been trying to produce the simpler query (which I believe is still valid...)
SELECT u.* FROM user_skill us, users u, skills s WHERE us.skillId = s.id && us.userId = u.id GROUP BY u.id
I've tried a variety of scala code to produce this query, but an example of what causes the shape error above is
(for {
us <- UserSkills
user <- us.user
skill <- us.skill
} yield (user, skill)).groupBy(_._1.id).map { case(_, xs) => xs.first }
Similarly, the following produces a packing error regarding "User" instead of "(User, Skill)"
(for {
us <- UserSkills
user <- us.user
skill <- us.skill
} yield (user, skill)).groupBy(_._1.id).map { case(_, xs) => xs.map(_._1).first }
If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very grateful: I've spent most of today and yesterday scouring google/google groups as well as the slick source, but I haven't a solution yet.
(Also, I'm using postgre so group_concat would actually be string_agg)
EDIT
So it seems like when groupBy is used, the mapped projection gets applied because something like
(for {
us <- UserSkills
u <- us.user
s <- us.skill
} yield (u,s)).map(_._1)
works fine because _._1 gives the type Users, which has a Shape since Users is a table. However, when we call xs.first (as we do when we call groupBy), we actually get back a mapped projection type (User, Skill), or if we apply map(_._1) first, we get the type User, which is not Users! As far as I can tell, there is no shape with User as the mixed type because the only shapes defined are for Shape[Column[T], T, Column[T]] and for a table T <: TableNode, Shape[T, NothingContainer#TableNothing, T] as defined in slick.lifted.Shape. Furthermore, if I do something like
(for {
us <- UserSkills
u <- us.user
s <- us.skill
} yield (u,s))
.groupBy(_._1.id)
.map { case (_, xs) => xs.map(_._1.id).first }
I get a strange error of the form "NoSuchElementException: key not found: #1515100893", where the numeric key value changes each time. This is not the query I want, but it is a strange issue none the less.

Answer 1

I've run up against similar situations as well. While I love working with Scala and Slick, I do believe there are times when it is easier to denormalize an object in the database itself and link the Slick Table to a view.
For example, I have an application that has a Tree object that is normalized into several database tables. Since I'm comfortable with SQL, I think it is a cleaner solution than writing a plain Scala Slick query. The Scala code:
case class DbGFolder(id: String,
eTag: String,
url: String,
iconUrl: String,
title: String,
owner: String,
parents: Option[String],
children: Option[String],
scions: Option[String],
created: LocalDateTime,
modified: LocalDateTime)
object DbGFolders extends Table[DbGFolder]("gfolder_view") {
def id = column[String]("id")
def eTag = column[String]("e_tag")
def url = column[String]("url")
def iconUrl = column[String]("icon_url")
def title = column[String]("title")
def owner = column[String]("file_owner")
def parents = column[String]("parent_str")
def children = column[String]("child_str")
def scions = column[String]("scion_str")
def created = column[LocalDateTime]("created")
def modified = column[LocalDateTime]("modified")
def * = id ~ eTag ~ url ~ iconUrl ~ title ~ owner ~ parents.? ~
children.? ~ scions.? ~ created ~ modified <> (DbGFolder, DbGFolder.unapply _)
def findAll(implicit s: Session): List[GFolder] = {
Query(DbGFolders).list().map {v =>
GFolder(id = v.id,
eTag = v.eTag,
url = v.url,
iconUrl = v.iconUrl,
title = v.title,
owner = v.owner,
parents = v.parents.map { parentStr =>
parentStr.split(",").toSet }.getOrElse(Set()),
children = v.children.map{ childStr =>
childStr.split(",").toSet }.getOrElse(Set()),
scions = v.scions.map { scionStr =>
scionStr.split(",").toSet }.getOrElse(Set()),
created = v.created,
modified = v.modified)
}
}
}
And the underlying (postgres) view:
CREATE VIEW scion_view AS
WITH RECURSIVE scions(id, scion) AS (
SELECT c.id, c.child
FROM children AS c
UNION ALL
SELECT s.id, c.child
FROM children AS c, scions AS s
WHERE c.id = s.scion)
SELECT * FROM scions ORDER BY id, scion;
CREATE VIEW gfolder_view AS
SELECT
f.id, f.e_tag, f.url, f.icon_url, f.title, m.name, f.file_owner,
p.parent_str, c.child_str, s.scion_str, f.created, f.modified
FROM
gfiles AS f
JOIN mimes AS m ON (f.mime_type = m.name)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT id, string_agg(parent, ',' ORDER BY parent) AS parent_str
FROM parents GROUP BY id) AS p ON (f.id = p.id)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT id, string_agg(child, ',' ORDER BY child) AS child_str
FROM children GROUP BY id) AS c ON (f.id = c.id)
LEFT JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT id, string_agg(scion, ',' ORDER BY scion) AS scion_str
FROM scion_view GROUP BY id) AS s ON (f.id = s.id)
WHERE
m.category = 'folder';

Answer 2

Try this. Hope it may yield what you expected. Find the Slick Code below the case classes.
click here for the reference regarding lifted embedding .
case class User(val name: String, val picture: Option[URL], val id: Option[UUID])
class Users(_tableTag: Tag) extends Table[User](_tableTag,"users") {
def name = column[String]("name")
def picture = column[Option[URL]]("picture")
def id = column[UUID]("id")
def * = name ~ picture ~ id.? <> (User, User.unapply _)
}
lazy val userTable = new TableQuery(tag => new Users(tag))
case class Skill(val name: String, val id: Option[UUID])
class Skills(_tableTag: Tag) extends Table[Skill](_tableTag,"skill") {
def name = column[String]("name")
def id = column[UUID]("id")
def * = name ~ id.? <> (Skill, Skill.unapply _)
}
lazy val skillTable = new TableQuery(tag => new Skills(tag))
case class UserSkill(val userId: UUID, val skillId: UUID, val id: Option[UUID])
class UserSkills(_tableTag: Tag) extends Table[UserSkill](_tableTag,"user_skill") {
def userId = column[UUID]("userId")
def skillId = column[UUID]("skillId")
def id = column[UUID]("id")
def * = userId ~ skillId ~ id.? <> (UserSkill, UserSkill.unapply _)
def user = foreignKey("userFK", userId, Users)(_.id)
def skill = foreignKey("skillFK", skillId, Skills)(_.id)
}
lazy val userSkillTable = new TableQuery(tag => new UserSkills(tag))
(for {((userSkill, user), skill) <- userSkillTable join userTable.filter on
(_.userId === _.id) join skillTable.filter on (_._1.skillId === _.id)
} yield (userSkill, user, skill)).groupBy(_.2.id)