Packages

  • 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 sys

    The package object scala.sys contains methods for reading and altering core aspects of the virtual machine as well as the world outside of it.

    The package object scala.sys contains methods for reading and altering core aspects of the virtual machine as well as the world outside of it.

    Definition Classes
    scala
    Version

    2.9

    Since

    2.9

  • package process

    This package handles the execution of external processes.

    This package handles the execution of external processes. The contents of this package can be divided in three groups, according to their responsibilities:

    • Indicating what to run and how to run it.
    • Handling a process input and output.
    • Running the process.

    For simple uses, the only group that matters is the first one. Running an external command can be as simple as "ls".!, or as complex as building a pipeline of commands such as this:

    import scala.sys.process._
    "ls" #| "grep .scala" #&& Seq("sh", "-c", "scalac *.scala") #|| "echo nothing found" lineStream

    We describe below the general concepts and architecture of the package, and then take a closer look at each of the categories mentioned above.

    Concepts and Architecture

    The underlying basis for the whole package is Java's Process and ProcessBuilder classes. While there's no need to use these Java classes, they impose boundaries on what is possible. One cannot, for instance, retrieve a process id for whatever is executing.

    When executing an external process, one can provide a command's name, arguments to it, the directory in which it will be executed and what environment variables will be set. For each executing process, one can feed its standard input through a java.io.OutputStream, and read from its standard output and standard error through a pair of java.io.InputStream. One can wait until a process finishes execution and then retrieve its return value, or one can kill an executing process. Everything else must be built on those features.

    This package provides a DSL for running and chaining such processes, mimicking Unix shells ability to pipe output from one process to the input of another, or control the execution of further processes based on the return status of the previous one.

    In addition to this DSL, this package also provides a few ways of controlling input and output of these processes, going from simple and easy to use to complex and flexible.

    When processes are composed, a new ProcessBuilder is created which, when run, will execute the ProcessBuilder instances it is composed of according to the manner of the composition. If piping one process to another, they'll be executed simultaneously, and each will be passed a ProcessIO that will copy the output of one to the input of the other.

    What to Run and How

    The central component of the process execution DSL is the scala.sys.process.ProcessBuilder trait. It is ProcessBuilder that implements the process execution DSL, that creates the scala.sys.process.Process that will handle the execution, and return the results of such execution to the caller. We can see that DSL in the introductory example: #|, #&& and #!! are methods on ProcessBuilder used to create a new ProcessBuilder through composition.

    One creates a ProcessBuilder either through factories on the scala.sys.process.Process's companion object, or through implicit conversions available in this package object itself. Implicitly, each process is created either out of a String, with arguments separated by spaces -- no escaping of spaces is possible -- or out of a scala.collection.Seq, where the first element represents the command name, and the remaining elements are arguments to it. In this latter case, arguments may contain spaces.

    To further control what how the process will be run, such as specifying the directory in which it will be run, see the factories on scala.sys.process.Process's object companion.

    Once the desired ProcessBuilder is available, it can be executed in different ways, depending on how one desires to control its I/O, and what kind of result one wishes for:

    • Return status of the process (! methods)
    • Output of the process as a String (!! methods)
    • Continuous output of the process as a Stream[String] (lineStream methods)
    • The Process representing it (run methods)

    Some simple examples of these methods:

    import scala.sys.process._
    
    // This uses ! to get the exit code
    def fileExists(name: String) = Seq("test", "-f", name).! == 0
    
    // This uses !! to get the whole result as a string
    val dirContents = "ls".!!
    
    // This "fire-and-forgets" the method, which can be lazily read through
    // a Stream[String]
    def sourceFilesAt(baseDir: String): Stream[String] = {
      val cmd = Seq("find", baseDir, "-name", "*.scala", "-type", "f")
      cmd.lineStream
    }

    We'll see more details about controlling I/O of the process in the next section.

    Handling Input and Output

    In the underlying Java model, once a Process has been started, one can get java.io.InputStream and java.io.OutputStream representing its output and input respectively. That is, what one writes to an OutputStream is turned into input to the process, and the output of a process can be read from an InputStream -- of which there are two, one representing normal output, and the other representing error output.

    This model creates a difficulty, which is that the code responsible for actually running the external processes is the one that has to take decisions about how to handle its I/O.

    This package presents an alternative model: the I/O of a running process is controlled by a scala.sys.process.ProcessIO object, which can be passed _to_ the code that runs the external process. A ProcessIO will have direct access to the java streams associated with the process I/O. It must, however, close these streams afterwards.

    Simpler abstractions are available, however. The components of this package that handle I/O are:

    Some examples of I/O handling:

    import scala.sys.process._
    
    // An overly complex way of computing size of a compressed file
    def gzFileSize(name: String) = {
      val cat = Seq("zcat", name)
      var count = 0
      def byteCounter(input: java.io.InputStream) = {
        while(input.read() != -1) count += 1
        input.close()
      }
      val p = cat run new ProcessIO(_.close(), byteCounter, _.close())
      p.exitValue()
      count
    }
    
    // This "fire-and-forgets" the method, which can be lazily read through
    // a Stream[String], and accumulates all errors on a StringBuffer
    def sourceFilesAt(baseDir: String): (Stream[String], StringBuffer) = {
      val buffer = new StringBuffer()
      val cmd = Seq("find", baseDir, "-name", "*.scala", "-type", "f")
      val lineStream = cmd lineStream_! ProcessLogger(buffer append _)
      (lineStream, buffer)
    }

    Instances of the java classes java.io.File and java.net.URL can both be used directly as input to other processes, and java.io.File can be used as output as well. One can even pipe one to the other directly without any intervening process, though that's not a design goal or recommended usage. For example, the following code will copy a web page to a file:

    import java.io.File
    import java.net.URL
    import scala.sys.process._
    new URL("http://www.scala-lang.org/") #> new File("scala-lang.html") !

    More information about the other ways of controlling I/O can be found in the Scaladoc for the associated objects, traits and classes.

    Running the Process

    Paradoxically, this is the simplest component of all, and the one least likely to be interacted with. It consists solely of scala.sys.process.Process, and it provides only two methods:

    • exitValue(): blocks until the process exit, and then returns the exit value. This is what happens when one uses the ! method of ProcessBuilder.
    • destroy(): this will kill the external process and close the streams associated with it.
    Definition Classes
    sys
  • BooleanProp
  • Prop
  • ShutdownHookThread
  • SystemProperties

trait BooleanProp extends Prop[Boolean]

A few additional conveniences for Boolean properties.

Source
BooleanProp.scala
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Abstract Value Members

  1. abstract def clear(): Unit

    Removes the property from the underlying map.

    Removes the property from the underlying map.

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  2. abstract def disable(): Unit

    Alter this property so that value will be false.

  3. abstract def enable(): Unit

    Alter this property so that value will be true.

  4. abstract def get: String

    Gets the current string value if any.

    Gets the current string value if any. Will not return null: use isSet to test for existence.

    returns

    the current string value if any, else the empty string

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  5. abstract def isSet: Boolean

    True if the key exists in the properties map.

    True if the key exists in the properties map. Note that this is not sufficient for a Boolean property to be considered true.

    returns

    whether the map contains the key

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  6. abstract def key: String

    The full name of the property, e.g., "java.awt.headless".

    The full name of the property, e.g., "java.awt.headless".

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  7. abstract def option: Option[Boolean]

    Some(value) if the property is set, None otherwise.

    Some(value) if the property is set, None otherwise.

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  8. abstract def set(newValue: String): String

    Sets the property.

    Sets the property.

    newValue

    the new string value

    returns

    the old value, or null if it was unset.

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  9. abstract def setValue[T1 >: Boolean](value: T1): Boolean

    Sets the property with a value of the represented type.

    Sets the property with a value of the represented type.

    Definition Classes
    Prop
  10. abstract def toggle(): Unit

    Toggle the property between enabled and disabled states.

  11. abstract def value: Boolean

    The semantics of value are determined at Prop creation.

    The semantics of value are determined at Prop creation. See methods valueIsTrue and keyExists in object BooleanProp for examples.

    returns

    true if the current String is considered true, false otherwise

    Definition Classes
    BooleanPropProp
  12. abstract def zero: Boolean

    A value of type T for use when the property is unset.

    A value of type T for use when the property is unset. The default implementation delivers null for reference types and 0/0.0/false for non-reference types.

    Attributes
    protected
    Definition Classes
    Prop

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 &(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if both of them evaluate to true.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if both of them evaluate to true.

    a & b returns true if and only if

    • a and b are true.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
    Note

    This method evaluates both a and b, even if the result is already determined after evaluating a.

  4. def &&(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if both of them evaluate to true.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if both of them evaluate to true.

    a && b returns true if and only if

    • a and b are true.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
    Note

    This method uses 'short-circuit' evaluation and behaves as if it was declared as def &&(x: => Boolean): Boolean. If a evaluates to false, false is returned without evaluating b.

  5. def +(other: String): String
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to any2stringadd[BooleanProp] performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    any2stringadd
  6. def ->[B](y: B): (BooleanProp, B)
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to ArrowAssoc[BooleanProp] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    ArrowAssoc
    Annotations
    @inline()
  7. 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
  8. def ^(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if they evaluate to a different value.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if they evaluate to a different value.

    a ^ b returns true if and only if

    • a is true and b is false or
    • a is false and b is true.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. def ensuring(cond: (BooleanProp) ⇒ Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): BooleanProp
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Ensuring[BooleanProp] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  12. def ensuring(cond: (BooleanProp) ⇒ Boolean): BooleanProp
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Ensuring[BooleanProp] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  13. def ensuring(cond: Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): BooleanProp
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Ensuring[BooleanProp] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  14. def ensuring(cond: Boolean): BooleanProp
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Ensuring[BooleanProp] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    Ensuring
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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

  18. 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 BooleanProp to StringFormat[BooleanProp] performed by method StringFormat in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    StringFormat
    Annotations
    @inline()
  19. 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()
  20. 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()
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. final def synchronized[T0](arg0: ⇒ T0): T0
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
  26. 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
  27. def unary_!: Boolean

    Negates a Boolean expression.

    Negates a Boolean expression.

    - !a results in false if and only if a evaluates to true and - !a results in true if and only if a evaluates to false.

    returns

    the negated expression

    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
  28. final def wait(): Unit
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @throws( ... )
  29. final def wait(arg0: Long, arg1: Int): Unit
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @throws( ... )
  30. final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit
    Definition Classes
    AnyRef
    Annotations
    @native() @throws( ... )
  31. def |(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if one or both of them evaluate to true.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if one or both of them evaluate to true.

    a | b returns true if and only if

    • a is true or
    • b is true or
    • a and b are true.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
    Note

    This method evaluates both a and b, even if the result is already determined after evaluating a.

  32. def ||(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if one or both of them evaluate to true.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if one or both of them evaluate to true.

    a || b returns true if and only if

    • a is true or
    • b is true or
    • a and b are true.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
    Note

    This method uses 'short-circuit' evaluation and behaves as if it was declared as def ||(x: => Boolean): Boolean. If a evaluates to true, true is returned without evaluating b.

  33. def [B](y: B): (BooleanProp, B)
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to ArrowAssoc[BooleanProp] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
    ArrowAssoc

Shadowed Implicit Value Members

  1. def !=(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if they evaluate to a different value.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if they evaluate to a different value.

    a != b returns true if and only if

    • a is true and b is false or
    • a is false and b is true.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Shadowing
    This implicitly inherited member is shadowed by one or more members in this class.
    To access this member you can use a type ascription:
    (booleanProp: Boolean).!=(x)
    Definition Classes
    Boolean
  2. def ==(x: Boolean): Boolean

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if they evaluate to the same value.

    Compares two Boolean expressions and returns true if they evaluate to the same value.

    a == b returns true if and only if

    • a and b are true or
    • a and b are false.
    Implicit
    This member is added by an implicit conversion from BooleanProp to Boolean performed by method booleanPropAsBoolean in scala.sys.BooleanProp.
    Shadowing
    This implicitly inherited member is shadowed by one or more members in this class.
    To access this member you can use a type ascription:
    (booleanProp: Boolean).==(x)
    Definition Classes
    Boolean

Inherited from Prop[Boolean]

Inherited from AnyRef

Inherited from Any

Inherited by implicit conversion booleanPropAsBoolean from BooleanProp to Boolean

Inherited by implicit conversion any2stringadd from BooleanProp to any2stringadd[BooleanProp]

Inherited by implicit conversion StringFormat from BooleanProp to StringFormat[BooleanProp]

Inherited by implicit conversion Ensuring from BooleanProp to Ensuring[BooleanProp]

Inherited by implicit conversion ArrowAssoc from BooleanProp to ArrowAssoc[BooleanProp]

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