2.8 dynamic instantiation and invocation

You may create Symbols (like 'index) at runtime with Symbol("index")
or any other string.

Of course, the usual caveat emptor for using dynamical method
invocation in a statically typed language applies here as well...

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:58 AM, first last wrote:
> How to instantiate a class and invoke method dynamically?
>
> class Foo {
>  def index():String = "inside index"
> }
>
> I looked on StackOverflow and the suggestion for Scala 2.8 is:
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> import reflect.Invocation._
>
> val s:String = (new Foo) oo 'index
>
> Seems to work, but I don't know the class ahead of time. I have a substring "Foo" which is parsed from a url string.
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