Scala Cookbook: Recipes for Object-Oriented and Functional ProgrammingPaperback (2024)

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Save time and trouble building object-oriented, functional, and concurrent applications with Scala. The latest edition of this comprehensive cookbook is packed with more than 250 ready-to-use recipes and 1,000 code examples to help you solve the most common problems when working with Scala 3 and its popular libraries.

Scala changes the way you think about programming—and that's a good thing. Whether you're working on web, big data, or distributed applications, this cookbook provides recipes based on real-world scenarios for both experienced Scala developers and programmers just learning to use this JVM language. Author Alvin Alexander includes practical solutions from his experience using Scala for component-based, highly scalable applications that support concurrency and distribution.

Recipes cover:

• Strings, numbers, and control structures
• Classes, methods, objects, traits, packaging, and imports
• Functional programming techniques
• Scala's wealth of collections classes and methods
• Building and publishing Scala applications with sbt
• Actors and concurrency with Scala Future and Akka Typed
• Popular libraries, including Spark, Scala.js, Play Framework, and GraalVM
• Types, such as variance, givens, intersections, and unions
• Best practices, including pattern matching, modules, and functional error handling

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About the Author

Alvin Alexander took the circuitous route to software development. He managed to get a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M Universitywhile all he wanted to do was play baseball. Once he became a practicing engineer he was volunteered to maintain the company’s software applications, and quickly realized he liked it. As a result he ended up teaching himself Fortran, C, Unix and network administration, Perl, Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, and Kotlin. During this process he started a software consulting firm, grew it to fifteen people, sold it, and moved to Alaska. After returning to the “Lower 48” he self-published two books, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary, and A Survival Guide for New Consultants. Since then he has written three more books: Scala Cookbook; Functional Programming, Simplified; and Hello, Scala.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface; The Scala Language; Chapter 1: Strings; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Testing String Equality; 1.3 Creating Multiline Strings; 1.4 Splitting Strings; 1.5 Substituting Variables into Strings; 1.6 Processing a String One Character at a Time; 1.7 Finding Patterns in Strings; 1.8 Replacing Patterns in Strings; 1.9 Extracting Parts of a String That Match Patterns; 1.10 Accessing a Character in a String; 1.11 Add Your Own Methods to the String Class; Chapter 2: Numbers; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Parsing a Number from a String; 2.3 Converting Between Numeric Types (Casting); 2.4 Overriding the Default Numeric Type; 2.5 Replacements for ++ and −−; 2.6 Comparing Floating-Point Numbers; 2.7 Handling Very Large Numbers; 2.8 Generating Random Numbers; 2.9 Creating a Range, List, or Array of Numbers; 2.10 Formatting Numbers and Currency; Chapter 3: Control Structures; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Looping with for and foreach; 3.3 Using for Loops with Multiple Counters; 3.4 Using a for Loop with Embedded if Statements (Guards); 3.5 Creating a for Comprehension (for/yield Combination); 3.6 Implementing break and continue; 3.7 Using the if Construct Like a Ternary Operator; 3.8 Using a Match Expression Like a switch Statement; 3.9 Matching Multiple Conditions with One Case Statement; 3.10 Assigning the Result of a Match Expression to a Variable; 3.11 Accessing the Value of the Default Case in a Match Expression; 3.12 Using Pattern Matching in Match Expressions; 3.13 Using Case Classes in Match Expressions; 3.14 Adding if Expressions (Guards) to Case Statements; 3.15 Using a Match Expression Instead of isInstanceOf; 3.16 Working with a List in a Match Expression; 3.17 Matching One or More Exceptions with try/catch; 3.18 Declaring a Variable Before Using It in a try/catch/finally Block; 3.19 Creating Your Own Control Structures; Chapter 4: Classes and Properties; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Creating a Primary Constructor; 4.3 Controlling the Visibility of Constructor Fields; 4.4 Defining Auxiliary Constructors; 4.5 Defining a Private Primary Constructor; 4.6 Providing Default Values for Constructor Parameters; 4.7 Overriding Default Accessors and Mutators; 4.8 Preventing Getter and Setter Methods from Being Generated; 4.9 Assigning a Field to a Block or Function; 4.10 Setting Uninitialized var Field Types; 4.11 Handling Constructor Parameters When Extending a Class; 4.12 Calling a Superclass Constructor; 4.13 When to Use an Abstract Class; 4.14 Defining Properties in an Abstract Base Class (or Trait); 4.15 Generating Boilerplate Code with Case Classes; 4.16 Defining an equals Method (Object Equality); 4.17 Creating Inner Classes; Chapter 5: Methods; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Controlling Method Scope; 5.3 Calling a Method on a Superclass; 5.4 Setting Default Values for Method Parameters; 5.5 Using Parameter Names When Calling a Method; 5.6 Defining a Method That Returns Multiple Items (Tuples); 5.7 Forcing Callers to Leave Parentheses off Accessor Methods; 5.8 Creating Methods That Take Variable-Argument Fields; 5.9 Declaring That a Method Can Throw an Exception; 5.10 Supporting a Fluent Style of Programming; Chapter 6: Objects; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Object Casting; 6.3 The Scala Equivalent of Java’s .class; 6.4 Determining the Class of an Object; 6.5 Launching an Application with an Object; 6.6 Creating Singletons with object; 6.7 Creating Static Members with Companion Objects; 6.8 Putting Common Code in Package Objects; 6.9 Creating Object Instances Without Using the new Keyword; 6.10 Implement the Factory Method in Scala with apply; Chapter 7: Packaging and Imports; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Packaging with the Curly Braces Style Notation; 7.3 Importing One or More Members; 7.4 Renaming Members on Import; 7.5 Hiding a Class During the Import Process; 7.6 Using Static Imports; 7.7 Using Import Statements Anywhere; Chapter 8: Traits; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Using a Trait as an Interface; 8.3 Using Abstract and Concrete Fields in Traits; 8.4 Using a Trait Like an Abstract Class; 8.5 Using Traits as Simple Mixins; 8.6 Limiting Which Classes Can Use a Trait by Inheritance; 8.7 Marking Traits So They Can Only Be Used by Subclasses of a Certain Type; 8.8 Ensuring a Trait Can Only Be Added to a Type That Has a Specific Method; 8.9 Adding a Trait to an Object Instance; 8.10 Extending a Java Interface Like a Trait; Chapter 9: Functional Programming; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Using Function Literals (Anonymous Functions); 9.3 Using Functions as Variables; 9.4 Defining a Method That Accepts a Simple Function Parameter; 9.5 More Complex Functions; 9.6 Using Closures; 9.7 Using Partially Applied Functions; 9.8 Creating a Function That Returns a Function; 9.9 Creating Partial Functions; 9.10 A Real-World Example; Chapter 10: Collections; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Understanding the Collections Hierarchy; 10.3 Choosing a Collection Class; 10.4 Choosing a Collection Method to Solve a Problem; 10.5 Understanding the Performance of Collections; 10.6 Declaring a Type When Creating a Collection; 10.7 Understanding Mutable Variables with Immutable Collections; 10.8 Make Vector Your “Go To” Immutable Sequence; 10.9 Make ArrayBuffer Your “Go To” Mutable Sequence; 10.10 Looping over a Collection with foreach; 10.11 Looping over a Collection with a for Loop; 10.12 Using zipWithIndex or zip to Create Loop Counters; 10.13 Using Iterators; 10.14 Transforming One Collection to Another with for/yield; 10.15 Transforming One Collection to Another with map; 10.16 Flattening a List of Lists with flatten; 10.17 Combining map and flatten with flatMap; 10.18 Using filter to Filter a Collection; 10.19 Extracting a Sequence of Elements from a Collection; 10.20 Splitting Sequences into Subsets (groupBy, partition, etc.); 10.21 Walking Through a Collection with the reduce and fold Methods; 10.22 Extracting Unique Elements from a Sequence; 10.23 Merging Sequential Collections; 10.24 Merging Two Sequential Collections into Pairs with zip; 10.25 Creating a Lazy View on a Collection; 10.26 Populating a Collection with a Range; 10.27 Creating and Using Enumerations; 10.28 Tuples, for When You Just Need a Bag of Things; 10.29 Sorting a Collection; 10.30 Converting a Collection to a String with mkString; Chapter 11: List, Array, Map, Set (and More); 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Different Ways to Create and Populate a List; 11.3 Creating a Mutable List; 11.4 Adding Elements to a List; 11.5 Deleting Elements from a List (or ListBuffer); 11.6 Merging (Concatenating) Lists; 11.7 Using Stream, a Lazy Version of a List; 11.8 Different Ways to Create and Update an Array; 11.9 Creating an Array Whose Size Can Change (ArrayBuffer); 11.10 Deleting Array and ArrayBuffer Elements; 11.11 Sorting Arrays; 11.12 Creating Multidimensional Arrays; 11.13 Creating Maps; 11.14 Choosing a Map Implementation; 11.15 Adding, Updating, and Removing Elements with a Mutable Map; 11.16 Adding, Updating, and Removing Elements with Immutable Maps; 11.17 Accessing Map Values; 11.18 Traversing a Map; 11.19 Getting the Keys or Values from a Map; 11.20 Reversing Keys and Values; 11.21 Testing for the Existence of a Key or Value in a Map; 11.22 Filtering a Map; 11.23 Sorting an Existing Map by Key or Value; 11.24 Finding the Largest Key or Value in a Map; 11.25 Adding Elements to a Set; 11.26 Deleting Elements from Sets; 11.27 Using Sortable Sets; 11.28 Using a Queue; 11.29 Using a Stack; 11.30 Using a Range; Chapter 12: Files and Processes; 12.1 Introduction; 12.2 How to Open and Read a Text File; 12.3 Writing Text Files; 12.4 Reading and Writing Binary Files; 12.5 How to Process Every Character in a Text File; 12.6 How to Process a CSV File; 12.7 Pretending that a String Is a File; 12.8 Using Serialization; 12.9 Listing Files in a Directory; 12.10 Listing Subdirectories Beneath a Directory; 12.11 Executing External Commands; 12.12 Executing External Commands and Using STDOUT; 12.13 Handling STDOUT and STDERR for External Commands; 12.14 Building a Pipeline of Commands; 12.15 Redirecting the STDOUT and STDIN of External Commands; 12.16 Using AND (&&) and OR (||) with Processes; 12.17 Handling Wildcard Characters in External Commands; 12.18 How to Run a Process in a Different Directory; 12.19 Setting Environment Variables When Running Commands; 12.20 An Index of Methods to Execute External Commands; Chapter 13: Actors and Concurrency; 13.1 Introduction; 13.2 Getting Started with a Simple Actor; 13.3 Creating an Actor Whose Class Constructor Requires Arguments; 13.4 How to Communicate Between Actors; 13.5 Understanding the Methods in the Akka Actor Lifecycle; 13.6 Starting an Actor; 13.7 Stopping Actors; 13.8 Shutting Down the Akka Actor System; 13.9 Monitoring the Death of an Actor with watch; 13.10 Simple Concurrency with Futures; 13.11 Sending a Message to an Actor and Waiting for a Reply; 13.12 Switching Between Different States with become; 13.13 Using Parallel Collections; Chapter 14: Command-Line Tasks; 14.1 Introduction; 14.2 Getting Started with the Scala REPL; 14.3 Pasting and Loading Blocks of Code into the REPL; 14.4 Adding JAR Files and Classes to the REPL Classpath; 14.5 Running a Shell Command from the REPL; 14.6 Compiling with scalac and Running with scala; 14.7 Disassembling and Decompiling Scala Code; 14.8 Finding Scala Libraries; 14.9 Generating Documentation with scaladoc; 14.10 Faster Command-Line Compiling with fsc; 14.11 Using Scala as a Scripting Language; 14.12 Accessing Command-Line Arguments from a Script; 14.13 Prompting for Input from a Scala Shell Script; 14.14 Make Your Scala Scripts Run Faster; Chapter 15: Web Services; 15.1 Introduction; 15.2 Creating a JSON String from a Scala Object; 15.3 Creating a JSON String from Classes That Have Collections; 15.4 Creating a Simple Scala Object from a JSON String; 15.5 Parsing JSON Data into an Array of Objects; 15.6 Creating Web Services with Scalatra; 15.7 Replacing XML Servlet Mappings with Scalatra Mounts; 15.8 Accessing Scalatra Web Service GET Parameters; 15.9 Accessing POST Request Data with Scalatra; 15.10 Creating a Simple GET Request Client; 15.11 Sending JSON Data to a POST URL; 15.12 Getting URL Headers; 15.13 Setting URL Headers When Sending a Request; 15.14 Creating a GET Request Web Service with the Play Framework; 15.15 POSTing JSON Data to a Play Framework Web Service; Chapter 16: Databases and Persistence; 16.1 Introduction; 16.2 Connecting to MySQL with JDBC; 16.3 Connecting to a Database with the Spring Framework; 16.4 Connecting to MongoDB and Inserting Data; 16.5 Inserting Documents into MongoDB with insert, save, or +=; 16.6 Searching a MongoDB Collection; 16.7 Updating Documents in a MongoDB Collection; 16.8 Accessing the MongoDB Document ID Field; 16.9 Deleting Documents in a MongoDB Collection; 16.10 A Quick Look at Slick; Chapter 17: Interacting with Java; 17.1 Introduction; 17.2 Going to and from Java Collections; 17.3 Add Exception Annotations to Scala Methods to Work with Java; 17.4 Using @SerialVersionUID and Other Annotations; 17.5 Using the Spring Framework; 17.6 Annotating varargs Methods; 17.7 When Java Code Requires JavaBeans; 17.8 Wrapping Traits with Implementations; Chapter 18: The Simple Build Tool (SBT); 18.1 Introduction; 18.2 Creating a Project Directory Structure for SBT; 18.3 Compiling, Running, and Packaging a Scala Project with SBT; 18.4 Running Tests with SBT and ScalaTest; 18.5 Managing Dependencies with SBT; 18.6 Controlling Which Version of a Managed Dependency Is Used; 18.7 Creating a Project with Subprojects; 18.8 Using SBT with Eclipse; 18.9 Generating Project API Documentation; 18.10 Specifying a Main Class to Run; 18.11 Using GitHub Projects as Project Dependencies; 18.12 Telling SBT How to Find a Repository (Working with Resolvers); 18.13 Resolving Problems by Getting an SBT Stack Trace; 18.14 Setting the SBT Log Level; 18.15 Deploying a Single, Executable JAR File; 18.16 Publishing Your Library; 18.17 Using Build.scala Instead of build.sbt; 18.18 Using a Maven Repository Library with SBT; 18.19 Building a Scala Project with Ant; Chapter 19: Types; 19.1 Introduction; 19.2 Creating Classes That Use Generic Types; 19.3 Creating a Method That Takes a Simple Generic Type; 19.4 Using Duck Typing (Structural Types); 19.5 Make Mutable Collections Invariant; 19.6 Make Immutable Collections Covariant; 19.7 Create a Collection Whose Elements Are All of Some Base Type; 19.8 Selectively Adding New Behavior to a Closed Model; 19.9 Building Functionality with Types; Chapter 20: Idioms; 20.1 Introduction; 20.2 Create Methods with No Side Effects (Pure Functions); 20.3 Prefer Immutable Objects; 20.4 Think “Expression-Oriented Programming”; 20.5 Use Match Expressions and Pattern Matching; 20.6 Eliminate null Values from Your Code; 20.7 Using the Option/Some/None Pattern; Colophon;Show More