I am writing a generic cache for a few of my entities in scala 2.10.1. For now, I am using google Guava's CacheBuilder since there aren't many options in scala ecosystem.
Code:
trait CachedEntity[E <: KeyedEntity[K],K] {
def lookup(id:K):E
def getElem(id:K):Option[E] = Try(elemCache.get(id)).toOption
val elemCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder().maximumSize(10).expireAfterWrite(1,TimeUnit.MINUTES).build(
new CacheLoader[K,E] {
def load(key:K) = {
println("Looking Up key:" + key + "in Class:" + this.getClass.getName)
lookup(key)
}
}
)
}
trait LongKeyed[E<: KeyedEntity[Long],Long] extends CachedEntity[E,Long]
However, sbt throws error:
[error] KEHCaching.scala:16: type mismatch;
[error] found : id.type (with underlying type K)
[error] required: Object with K
[error] def getElem(id:K):Option[E] = Try(elemCache.get(id)).toOption
[error] ^
[error] one error found
Any ideas? Even if I add K<:Object like this:
trait CachedEntity[E <: KeyedEntity[K],K <:Object] {
I get this error
[error] KEHCaching.scala:27: type arguments [E,Long] do not conform to trait CachedEntity's type parameter bounds [E <: org.squeryl.KeyedEntity[K],K <: Object]
[error] trait LongKeyed[E<: KeyedEntity[Long],Long] extends CachedEntity[E,Long]
[error] ^
[error] one error found
If you don't mind a little ugly cast, you can get this to work. The main issue is that the build
function on CacheBuilder
returns a cache tied to types [Object,Object]
. In Scala, the AnyVal
is not derived from Object, so it won't work. But I mocked up the following code sample to show how you can work around this limitation with a little ugly casting:
trait CachedEntity[E <: KeyedEntity[K], K] {
def lookup(id:K):E
def getElem(id:K):Option[E] = Try(elemCache.get(id)).toOption
val elemCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder().build(
new CacheLoader[K,E] {
def load(key:K) = {
println("Looking Up key:" + key + "in Class:" + this.getClass.getName)
lookup(key)
}
}
).asInstanceOf[LoadingCache[K,E]]
}
trait LongKeyed[E<: KeyedEntity[Long]] extends CachedEntity[E,Long]
case class MyEntity(id:Long, value:String) extends KeyedEntity[Long]
class MyEntityCache extends LongKeyed[MyEntity]{
def lookup(id:Long) = MyEntity(id, "foo")
}
object CachedEntityTest{
def main(args: Array[String]) {
val cache = new MyEntityCache
val entity = cache.getElem(1)
println(entity)
}
}
//Faking this for purposes of code sample...
trait KeyedEntity[K]
CacheBuilder requires an Object/AnyRef.
You can use java.lang.Long instead of scala.Long as follows; Scala will automatically box/unbox as required.
import scala.util.Try
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
import java.lang.{Long => JLong}
trait KeyedEntity[K]
trait CachedEntity[E <: KeyedEntity[K], K <: AnyRef] {
def lookup(id:K):E
def getElem(id:K):Option[E] = Try(elemCache.get(id)).toOption
val elemCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder().maximumSize(10).expireAfterWrite(1,TimeUnit.MINUTES).build(
new CacheLoader[K,E] {
def load(key:K) = {
println("Looking Up key:" + key + "in Class:" + this.getClass.getName)
lookup(key)
}
}
)
}
trait LongKeyed[E <: KeyedEntity[JLong]] extends CachedEntity[E,JLong]