I am new to scala
and trying to do some string formatting.
val mAPRegisterResponseMessage = s"{\" 'type' \": \"ap_register_response\",
\"message_id\": 02,\"register_status\": $registerStatus,\"host_name_type\":
$host_name_type, \"host_name\": $host_name, \"port_num\":$port_num }"
If I remove the s in the beginning then the string literal is formed but obviously not correctly. However after adding s at the start, I get an error as unclosed character literal for the second backslash.
What am I doing wrong? Any clues will help.
You can use triple quote:
s""" {"foo" : 2, "bar": $registerStatus} """
Scala console:
scala> val registerStatus = "new"
registerStatus: String = new
scala> s""" {"foo" : 2, "bar": $registerStatus} """
res0: String = " {"foo" : 2, "bar": new} "
Solution 1: triple quotes ("""
)
as already stated by @mgosk
s""" {"foo" : 2, "bar": $registerStatus} """
Solution 2: JSON Library
It looks like you want to create JSON output. For that usecase using string interpolation is not the preferred solution. There are many libraries like for example JSON4s http://json4s.org/ that allow you to use a typesafe case class and render this then as a JSON string
String Interpolation in Scala is does not work well with escape using \
. You can use """
in the case of special characters.
val mAPRegisterResponseMessage = s"""{" 'type' ": "ap_register_response", "register_status": $registerStatus }"""