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  • package root

    This is the documentation for the Scala standard library.

    This is the documentation for the Scala standard library.

    Package structure

    The scala package contains core types like Int, Float, Array or Option which are accessible in all Scala compilation units without explicit qualification or imports.

    Notable packages include:

    Other packages exist. See the complete list on the right.

    Additional parts of the standard library are shipped as separate libraries. These include:

    • scala.reflect - Scala's reflection API (scala-reflect.jar)
    • scala.xml - XML parsing, manipulation, and serialization (scala-xml.jar)
    • scala.swing - A convenient wrapper around Java's GUI framework called Swing (scala-swing.jar)
    • scala.util.parsing - Parser combinators (scala-parser-combinators.jar)

    Automatic imports

    Identifiers in the scala package and the scala.Predef object are always in scope by default.

    Some of these identifiers are type aliases provided as shortcuts to commonly used classes. For example, List is an alias for scala.collection.immutable.List.

    Other aliases refer to classes provided by the underlying platform. For example, on the JVM, String is an alias for java.lang.String.

    Definition Classes
    root
  • package scala

    Core Scala types.

    Core Scala types. They are always available without an explicit import.

    Definition Classes
    root
  • package collection

    Contains the base traits and objects needed to use and extend Scala's collection library.

    Contains the base traits and objects needed to use and extend Scala's collection library.

    Guide

    A detailed guide for using the collections library is available at http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/introduction.html. Developers looking to extend the collections library can find a description of its architecture at http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/architecture-of-scala-collections.html.

    Using Collections

    It is convenient to treat all collections as either a scala.collection.Traversable or scala.collection.Iterable, as these traits define the vast majority of operations on a collection.

    Collections can, of course, be treated as specifically as needed, and the library is designed to ensure that the methods that transform collections will return a collection of the same type:

    scala> val array = Array(1,2,3,4,5,6)
    array: Array[Int] = Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
    
    scala> array map { _.toString }
    res0: Array[String] = Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
    
    scala> val list = List(1,2,3,4,5,6)
    list: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
    
    scala> list map { _.toString }
    res1: List[String] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

    Creating Collections

    The most common way to create a collection is to use its companion object as a factory. The three most commonly used collections are scala.collection.Seq, scala.collection.immutable.Set, and scala.collection.immutable.Map. They can be used directly as shown below since their companion objects are all available as type aliases in either the scala package or in scala.Predef. New collections are created like this:

    scala> val seq = Seq(1,2,3,4,1)
    seq: Seq[Int] = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 1)
    
    scala> val set = Set(1,2,3,4,1)
    set: scala.collection.immutable.Set[Int] = Set(1, 2, 3, 4)
    
    scala> val map = Map(1 -> "one", 2 -> "two", 3 -> "three", 2 -> "too")
    map: scala.collection.immutable.Map[Int,String] = Map(1 -> one, 2 -> too, 3 -> three)

    It is also typical to prefer the scala.collection.immutable collections over those in scala.collection.mutable; the types aliased in the scala.Predef object are the immutable versions.

    Also note that the collections library was carefully designed to include several implementations of each of the three basic collection types. These implementations have specific performance characteristics which are described in the guide.

    The concrete parallel collections also have specific performance characteristics which are described in the parallel collections guide

    Converting to and from Java Collections

    The scala.collection.JavaConverters object provides a collection of decorators that allow converting between Scala and Java collections using asScala and asJava methods.

    Definition Classes
    scala
  • package parallel

    Package object for parallel collections.

    Package object for parallel collections.

    Definition Classes
    collection
  • trait ParIterableLike[+T, +Repr <: ParIterable[T], +Sequential <: scala.Iterable[T] with IterableLike[T, Sequential]] extends GenIterableLike[T, Repr] with CustomParallelizable[T, Repr] with Parallel with HasNewCombiner[T, Repr]

    A template trait for parallel collections of type ParIterable[T].

    A template trait for parallel collections of type ParIterable[T].

    This is a base trait for Scala parallel collections. It defines behaviour common to all parallel collections. Concrete parallel collections should inherit this trait and ParIterable if they want to define specific combiner factories.

    Parallel operations are implemented with divide and conquer style algorithms that parallelize well. The basic idea is to split the collection into smaller parts until they are small enough to be operated on sequentially.

    All of the parallel operations are implemented as tasks within this trait. Tasks rely on the concept of splitters, which extend iterators. Every parallel collection defines:

    def splitter: IterableSplitter[T]

    which returns an instance of IterableSplitter[T], which is a subtype of Splitter[T]. Splitters have a method remaining to check the remaining number of elements, and method split which is defined by splitters. Method split divides the splitters iterate over into disjunct subsets:

    def split: Seq[Splitter]

    which splits the splitter into a sequence of disjunct subsplitters. This is typically a very fast operation which simply creates wrappers around the receiver collection. This can be repeated recursively.

    Tasks are scheduled for execution through a scala.collection.parallel.TaskSupport object, which can be changed through the tasksupport setter of the collection.

    Method newCombiner produces a new combiner. Combiners are an extension of builders. They provide a method combine which combines two combiners and returns a combiner containing elements of both combiners. This method can be implemented by aggressively copying all the elements into the new combiner or by lazily binding their results. It is recommended to avoid copying all of the elements for performance reasons, although that cost might be negligible depending on the use case. Standard parallel collection combiners avoid copying when merging results, relying either on a two-step lazy construction or specific data-structure properties.

    Methods:

    def seq: Sequential
    def par: Repr

    produce the sequential or parallel implementation of the collection, respectively. Method par just returns a reference to this parallel collection. Method seq is efficient - it will not copy the elements. Instead, it will create a sequential version of the collection using the same underlying data structure. Note that this is not the case for sequential collections in general - they may copy the elements and produce a different underlying data structure.

    The combination of methods toMap, toSeq or toSet along with par and seq is a flexible way to change between different collection types.

    Since this trait extends the GenIterable trait, methods like size must also be implemented in concrete collections, while iterator forwards to splitter by default.

    Each parallel collection is bound to a specific fork/join pool, on which dormant worker threads are kept. The fork/join pool contains other information such as the parallelism level, that is, the number of processors used. When a collection is created, it is assigned the default fork/join pool found in the scala.parallel package object.

    Parallel collections are not necessarily ordered in terms of the foreach operation (see Traversable). Parallel sequences have a well defined order for iterators - creating an iterator and traversing the elements linearly will always yield the same order. However, bulk operations such as foreach, map or filter always occur in undefined orders for all parallel collections.

    Existing parallel collection implementations provide strict parallel iterators. Strict parallel iterators are aware of the number of elements they have yet to traverse. It's also possible to provide non-strict parallel iterators, which do not know the number of elements remaining. To do this, the new collection implementation must override isStrictSplitterCollection to false. This will make some operations unavailable.

    To create a new parallel collection, extend the ParIterable trait, and implement size, splitter, newCombiner and seq. Having an implicit combiner factory requires extending this trait in addition, as well as providing a companion object, as with regular collections.

    Method size is implemented as a constant time operation for parallel collections, and parallel collection operations rely on this assumption.

    The higher-order functions passed to certain operations may contain side-effects. Since implementations of bulk operations may not be sequential, this means that side-effects may not be predictable and may produce data-races, deadlocks or invalidation of state if care is not taken. It is up to the programmer to either avoid using side-effects or to use some form of synchronization when accessing mutable data.

    T

    the element type of the collection

    Repr

    the type of the actual collection containing the elements

    Definition Classes
    parallel
  • Accessor
  • Aggregate
  • BuilderOps
  • Collect
  • Composite
  • Copy
  • CopyToArray
  • Count
  • CreateScanTree
  • Drop
  • Exists
  • Filter
  • FilterNot
  • Find
  • FlatMap
  • Fold
  • Forall
  • Foreach
  • FromScanTree
  • GroupBy
  • Map
  • Max
  • Min
  • NonDivisible
  • NonDivisibleTask
  • ParComposite
  • Partition
  • Product
  • Reduce
  • ResultMapping
  • ScanLeaf
  • ScanNode
  • ScanTree
  • SeqComposite
  • SignallingOps
  • Slice
  • Span
  • SplitAt
  • StrictSplitterCheckTask
  • Sum
  • Take
  • TakeWhile
  • TaskOps
  • ToParCollection
  • ToParMap
  • Transformer
  • Zip
  • ZipAll

trait BuilderOps[Elem, To] extends AnyRef

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  1. trait Otherwise[Cmb] extends AnyRef

Abstract Value Members

  1. abstract def asCombiner: Combiner[Elem, To]
  2. abstract def ifIs[Cmb](isbody: (Cmb) ⇒ Unit): Otherwise[Cmb]
  3. abstract def isCombiner: Boolean

Concrete Value Members

  1. final def !=(arg0: Any): Boolean

    Test two objects for inequality.

    Test two objects for inequality.

    returns

    true if !(this == that), false otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
  2. final def ##(): Int

    Equivalent to x.hashCode except for boxed numeric types and null.

    Equivalent to x.hashCode except for boxed numeric types and null. For numerics, it returns a hash value which is consistent with value equality: if two value type instances compare as true, then ## will produce the same hash value for each of them. For null returns a hashcode where null.hashCode throws a NullPointerException.

    returns

    a hash value consistent with ==

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
  3. def +(other: String): String
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to any2stringadd[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    any2stringadd
  4. def ->[B](y: B): (BuilderOps[Elem, To], B)
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to ArrowAssoc[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    ArrowAssoc
    Annotations
    @inline()
  5. final def ==(arg0: Any): Boolean

    The expression x == that is equivalent to if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that).

    The expression x == that is equivalent to if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that).

    returns

    true if the receiver object is equivalent to the argument; false otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
  6. final def asInstanceOf[T0]: T0

    Cast the receiver object to be of type T0.

    Cast the receiver object to be of type T0.

    Note that the success of a cast at runtime is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression 1.asInstanceOf[String] will throw a ClassCastException at runtime, while the expression List(1).asInstanceOf[List[String]] will not. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the requested type.

    returns

    the receiver object.

    Definition Classes
    Any
    Exceptions thrown

    ClassCastException if the receiver object is not an instance of the erasure of type T0.

  7. def clone(): AnyRef

    Create a copy of the receiver object.

    Create a copy of the receiver object.

    The default implementation of the clone method is platform dependent.

    returns

    a copy of the receiver object.

    Attributes
    protected[java.lang]
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @native() @throws( ... )
    Note

    not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

  8. def ensuring(cond: (BuilderOps[Elem, To]) ⇒ Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): BuilderOps[Elem, To]
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to Ensuring[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  9. def ensuring(cond: (BuilderOps[Elem, To]) ⇒ Boolean): BuilderOps[Elem, To]
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to Ensuring[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  10. def ensuring(cond: Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): BuilderOps[Elem, To]
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to Ensuring[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  11. def ensuring(cond: Boolean): BuilderOps[Elem, To]
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to Ensuring[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  12. final def eq(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

    Tests whether the argument (that) is a reference to the receiver object (this).

    Tests whether the argument (that) is a reference to the receiver object (this).

    The eq method implements an equivalence relation on non-null instances of AnyRef, and has three additional properties:

    • It is consistent: for any non-null instances x and y of type AnyRef, multiple invocations of x.eq(y) consistently returns true or consistently returns false.
    • For any non-null instance x of type AnyRef, x.eq(null) and null.eq(x) returns false.
    • null.eq(null) returns true.

    When overriding the equals or hashCode methods, it is important to ensure that their behavior is consistent with reference equality. Therefore, if two objects are references to each other (o1 eq o2), they should be equal to each other (o1 == o2) and they should hash to the same value (o1.hashCode == o2.hashCode).

    returns

    true if the argument is a reference to the receiver object; false otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
  13. def equals(arg0: Any): Boolean

    The equality method for reference types.

    The equality method for reference types. Default implementation delegates to eq.

    See also equals in scala.Any.

    returns

    true if the receiver object is equivalent to the argument; false otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
  14. def finalize(): Unit

    Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.

    Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.

    The details of when and if the finalize method is invoked, as well as the interaction between finalize and non-local returns and exceptions, are all platform dependent.

    Attributes
    protected[java.lang]
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @throws( classOf[java.lang.Throwable] )
    Note

    not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

  15. def formatted(fmtstr: String): String

    Returns string formatted according to given format string.

    Returns string formatted according to given format string. Format strings are as for String.format (@see java.lang.String.format).

    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to StringFormat[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method StringFormat in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    StringFormat
    Annotations
    @inline()
  16. final def getClass(): Class[_]

    Returns the runtime class representation of the object.

    Returns the runtime class representation of the object.

    returns

    a class object corresponding to the runtime type of the receiver.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
    Annotations
    @native()
  17. def hashCode(): Int

    The hashCode method for reference types.

    The hashCode method for reference types. See hashCode in scala.Any.

    returns

    the hash code value for this object.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
    Annotations
    @native()
  18. final def isInstanceOf[T0]: Boolean

    Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is T0.

    Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is T0.

    Note that the result of the test is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression 1.isInstanceOf[String] will return false, while the expression List(1).isInstanceOf[List[String]] will return true. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the specified type.

    returns

    true if the receiver object is an instance of erasure of type T0; false otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    Any
  19. final def ne(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

    Equivalent to !(this eq that).

    Equivalent to !(this eq that).

    returns

    true if the argument is not a reference to the receiver object; false otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
  20. final def notify(): Unit

    Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @native()
    Note

    not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

  21. final def notifyAll(): Unit

    Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @native()
    Note

    not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

  22. final def synchronized[T0](arg0: ⇒ T0): T0
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
  23. def toParArray: ParArray[T]
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to CollectionsHaveToParArray[BuilderOps[Elem, To], T] performed by method CollectionsHaveToParArray in scala.collection.parallel. This conversion will take place only if an implicit value of type (BuilderOps[Elem, To]) ⇒ GenTraversableOnce[T] is in scope.
    Definition Classes
    CollectionsHaveToParArray
  24. def toString(): String

    Creates a String representation of this object.

    Creates a String representation of this object. The default representation is platform dependent. On the java platform it is the concatenation of the class name, "@", and the object's hashcode in hexadecimal.

    returns

    a String representation of the object.

    Definition Classes
    AnyRef → Any
  25. final def wait(): Unit
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @throws( ... )
  26. final def wait(arg0: Long, arg1: Int): Unit
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @throws( ... )
  27. final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @native() @throws( ... )
  28. def [B](y: B): (BuilderOps[Elem, To], B)
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to ArrowAssoc[BuilderOps[Elem, To]] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    ArrowAssoc

Inherited from AnyRef

Inherited from Any

Inherited by implicit conversion CollectionsHaveToParArray from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to CollectionsHaveToParArray[BuilderOps[Elem, To], T]

Inherited by implicit conversion any2stringadd from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to any2stringadd[BuilderOps[Elem, To]]

Inherited by implicit conversion StringFormat from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to StringFormat[BuilderOps[Elem, To]]

Inherited by implicit conversion Ensuring from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to Ensuring[BuilderOps[Elem, To]]

Inherited by implicit conversion ArrowAssoc from BuilderOps[Elem, To] to ArrowAssoc[BuilderOps[Elem, To]]

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