scala 2.10 type mismatch using google guava's

Question

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

Answer 1

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]

Answer 2

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]