Is there an easy way to convert a
java.lang.Iterable[_]
to a
Scala.Iterable[_]
?
Is there an easy way to convert a
java.lang.Iterable[_]
to a
Scala.Iterable[_]
?
In Scala 2.8 this became much much easier, and there are two ways to achieve it. One that's sort of explicit (although it uses implicits):
import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
val myJavaIterable = someExpr()
val myScalaIterable = myJavaIterable.asScala
EDIT: Since I wrote this, the Scala community has arrived at a broad consensus that JavaConverters
is good, and JavaConversions
is bad, because of the potential for spooky-action-at-a-distance. So don't use JavaConversions
at all!
And one that's more like an implicit implicit: :)
import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
val myJavaIterable = someExpr()
for (magicValue <- myJavaIterable) yield doStuffWith(magicValue)
Yes use implicit conversions:
import java.lang.{Iterable => JavaItb}
import java.util.{Iterator => JavaItr}
implicit def jitb2sitb[T](jit: JavaItb[T]): Iterable[T] = new SJIterable(jit);
implicit def jitr2sitr[A](jit: JavaItr[A]): Iterator[A] = new SJIterator(jit)
Which can then be easily implemented:
class SJIterable[T](private val jitb: JavaItr[T]) extends Iterable[T] {
def elements(): Iterator[T] = jitb.iterator()
}
class SJIterator[T](private val jit: JavaItr[T]) extends Iterator[T] {
def hasNext: Boolean = jit hasNext
def next: T = jit next
}