I quite often use the function below to convert Option[Try[_]]
to Try[Option[_]]
but it feels wrong. Can be such a functionality expressed in more idiomatic way?
def swap[T](optTry: Option[Try[T]]): Try[Option[T]] = {
optTry match {
case Some(Success(t)) => Success(Some(t))
case Some(Failure(e)) => Failure(e)
case None => Success(None)
}
}
Say I have two values:
val v1: Int = ???
val v2: Option[Int] = ???
I want to make an operation op
(which can fail) on these values and pass that to function f
below.
def op(x: Int): Try[String]
def f(x: String, y: Option[String]): Unit
I typically use for comprehension for readability:
for {
opedV1 <- op(v1)
opedV2 <- swap(v2.map(op))
} f(opedV1, opedV2)
PS. I'd like to avoid some heavy stuff like scalaz.
Sounds like Try { option.map(_.get) }
will do what you want.
The cats library allows you to sequence an Option
to a Try
very easily:
scala> import cats.implicits._
import cats.implicits._
scala> import scala.util.{Failure, Success, Try}
import scala.util.{Failure, Success, Try}
scala> Option(Success(1)).sequence[Try, Int]
res0: scala.util.Try[Option[Int]] = Success(Some(1))
scala> Option(Failure[Int](new IllegalArgumentException("nonpositive integer"))).sequence[Try, Int]
res1: scala.util.Try[Option[Int]] = Failure(java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: nonpositive integer)
scala> None.sequence[Try, Int]
res2: scala.util.Try[Option[Int]] = Success(None)
This variant avoids rethrowing:
import scala.util.{Failure, Success, Try}
def swap[T](optTry: Option[Try[T]]): Try[Option[T]] =
optTry.map(_.map(Some.apply)).getOrElse(Success(None))
swap(Some(Success(1)))
// res0: scala.util.Try[Option[Int]] = Success(Some(1))
swap(Some(Failure(new IllegalStateException("test"))))
// res1: scala.util.Try[Option[Nothing]] = Failure(java.lang.IllegalStateException: test)
swap(None)
// res2: scala.util.Try[Option[Nothing]] = Success(None)