I am playing around with reflection in Scala 2.10.0-M7 and stumbled upon the ClassSymbol.isCaseClass
method which behaves like expected in the scala console but not when executed as a java application or as a scala script.
I've defined TestScript.scala
like this:
import reflect.runtime.currentMirror
case class TestCase(foo: String)
object Test {
def main(args: Array[String]) {
val classSymbol = currentMirror.reflect(new TestCase("foo")).symbol
val isCaseClass = classSymbol.isCaseClass
println(s"isCaseClass: $isCaseClass")
}
}
Test.main(Array())
If I execute it on the command line calling
$ scala TestScript.scala
I get this output:
isCaseClass: false
If I instead input the code into the interactive scala shell or load it like this:
scala> :load TestScript.scala
I get the following correct output:
Loading TestScript.scala...
import reflect.runtime.currentMirror
defined class TestCase
defined module Test
isCaseClass: true
If I compile it and execute it as a standard Java app I get false
as result for ClassSymbol.isCase
again.
What am I missing? What are the differences between the scala console environment and the java runtime environment? How can I get the correct result in a real application?