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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:
- scala.collection and its sub-packages contain Scala's collections framework
  - scala.collection.immutable - Immutable, sequential data-structures such as Vector, List, Range, HashMap or HashSet
  - scala.collection.mutable - Mutable, sequential data-structures such as ArrayBuffer, StringBuilder, HashMap or HashSet
  - scala.collection.concurrent - Mutable, concurrent data-structures such as TrieMap
- scala.concurrent - Primitives for concurrent programming such as Futures and Promises
- scala.io - Input and output operations
- scala.math - Basic math functions and additional numeric types like BigInt and BigDecimal
- scala.sys - Interaction with other processes and the operating system
- scala.util.matching - Regular expressions
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.collection.parallel - Parallel collections (scala-parallel-collections.jar)
- scala.util.parsing - Parser combinators (scala-parser-combinators.jar)
- scala.swing - A convenient wrapper around Java's GUI framework called Swing (scala-swing.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.
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package annotation
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package beans
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package collection
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package compat
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package concurrent
This package object contains primitives for concurrent and parallel programming.
This package object contains primitives for concurrent and parallel programming.
Guide
A more detailed guide to Futures and Promises, including discussion and examples can be found at https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/futures.html.
Common Imports
When working with Futures, you will often find that importing the whole concurrent package is convenient:
```
import scala.concurrent._
```
When using things like Futures, it is often required to have an implicit ExecutionContext in scope. The general advice for these implicits are as follows.
If the code in question is a class or method definition, and no ExecutionContext is available, request one from the caller by adding an implicit parameter list:
```
def myMethod(myParam: MyType)(implicit ec: ExecutionContext) = …
//Or
class MyClass(myParam: MyType)(implicit ec: ExecutionContext) { … }
```
This allows the caller of the method, or creator of the instance of the class, to decide which ExecutionContext should be used.
For typical REPL usage and experimentation, importing the global ExecutionContext is often desired.
```
import scala.concurrent.ExcutionContext.Implicits.global
```
Specifying Durations
Operations often require a duration to be specified. A duration DSL is available to make defining these easier:
```
import scala.concurrent.duration._
val d: Duration = 10.seconds
```
Using Futures For Non-blocking Computation
Basic use of futures is easy with the factory method on Future, which executes a provided function asynchronously, handing you back a future result of that function without blocking the current thread. In order to create the Future you will need either an implicit or explicit ExecutionContext to be provided:
```
import scala.concurrent._
import ExecutionContext.Implicits.global  // implicit execution context

val firstZebra: Future[Int] = Future {
  val words = Files.readAllLines("/etc/dictionaries-common/words").asScala
  words.indexOfSlice("zebra")
}
```
Avoid Blocking
Although blocking is possible in order to await results (with a mandatory timeout duration):
```
import scala.concurrent.duration._
Await.result(firstZebra, 10.seconds)
```
and although this is sometimes necessary to do, in particular for testing purposes, blocking in general is discouraged when working with Futures and concurrency in order to avoid potential deadlocks and improve performance. Instead, use callbacks or combinators to remain in the future domain:
```
val animalRange: Future[Int] = for {
  aardvark <- firstAardvark
  zebra <- firstZebra
} yield zebra - aardvark

animalRange.onSuccess {
  case x if x > 500000 => println("It's a long way from Aardvark to Zebra")
}
```
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scala
package io
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package jdk
The jdk package contains utilities to interact with JDK classes.
The jdk package contains utilities to interact with JDK classes.
This packages offers a number of converters, that are able to wrap or copy types from the scala library to equivalent types in the JDK class library and vice versa:
- CollectionConverters, converting collections like scala.collection.Seq, scala.collection.Map, scala.collection.Set, scala.collection.mutable.Buffer, scala.collection.Iterator and scala.collection.Iterable to their JDK counterparts
- OptionConverters, converting between Option and java.util.Optional and primitive variations
- StreamConverters, to create JDK Streams from scala collections
- DurationConverters, for conversions between scala scala.concurrent.duration.FiniteDuration and java.time.Duration
- FunctionConverters, from scala Functions to java java.util.function.Function, java.util.function.UnaryOperator, java.util.function.Consumer and java.util.function.Predicate, as well as primitive variations and Bi-variations.
By convention, converters that wrap an object to provide a different interface to the same underlying data structure use .asScala and .asJava extension methods, whereas converters that copy the underlying data structure use .toScala and .toJava.
In the javaapi package, the same converters can be found with a java-friendly interface that don't rely on implicit enrichments.
Additionally, this package offers Accumulators, capable of efficiently traversing JDK Streams.
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scala
package math
The package object scala.math contains methods for performing basic numeric operations such as elementary exponential, logarithmic, root and trigonometric functions.
The package object scala.math contains methods for performing basic numeric operations such as elementary exponential, logarithmic, root and trigonometric functions.
All methods forward to java.lang.Math unless otherwise noted.
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scala
See also
java.lang.Math
package ref
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scala
package reflect
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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.
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package util
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Singleton

final trait Singleton extends Any

Singleton is used by the compiler as a supertype for singleton types. This includes literal types, as they are also singleton types.

scala> object A { val x = 42 }
defined object A

scala> implicitly[A.type <:< Singleton]
res12: A.type <:< Singleton = generalized constraint

scala> implicitly[A.x.type <:< Singleton]
res13: A.x.type <:< Singleton = generalized constraint

scala> implicitly[42 <:< Singleton]
res14: 42 <:< Singleton = generalized constraint

scala> implicitly[Int <:< Singleton]
^
error: Cannot prove that Int <:< Singleton.

Singleton has a special meaning when it appears as an upper bound on a formal type parameter. Normally, type inference in Scala widens singleton types to the underlying non-singleton type. When a type parameter has an explicit upper bound of Singleton, the compiler infers a singleton type.

scala> def check42[T](x: T)(implicit ev: T =:= 42): T = x
check42: [T](x: T)(implicit ev: T =:= 42)T

scala> val x1 = check42(42)
^
error: Cannot prove that Int =:= 42.

scala> def singleCheck42[T <: Singleton](x: T)(implicit ev: T =:= 42): T = x
singleCheck42: [T <: Singleton](x: T)(implicit ev: T =:= 42)T

scala> val x2 = singleCheck42(42)
x2: Int = 42

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abstract def getClass(): Class[_ <: AnyRef]
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.
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final def !=(arg0: Any): Boolean
Test two objects for inequality.
Test two objects for inequality.
returns
true if !(this == that), false otherwise.
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Any
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 ==
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def +(other: String): String
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This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toany2stringadd[Singleton] performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
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def ->[B](y: B): (Singleton, B)
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This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toArrowAssoc[Singleton] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
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@inline()
final def ==(arg0: Any): Boolean
Test two objects for equality.
Test two objects for equality. 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.
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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.
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ClassCastException if the receiver object is not an instance of the erasure of type T0.
def ensuring(cond: (Singleton) => Boolean, msg: => Any): Singleton
Implicit
This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toEnsuring[Singleton] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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Ensuring
def ensuring(cond: (Singleton) => Boolean): Singleton
Implicit
This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toEnsuring[Singleton] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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def ensuring(cond: Boolean, msg: => Any): Singleton
Implicit
This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toEnsuring[Singleton] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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Ensuring
def ensuring(cond: Boolean): Singleton
Implicit
This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toEnsuring[Singleton] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
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def equals(arg0: Any): Boolean
Compares the receiver object (this) with the argument object (that) for equivalence.
Compares the receiver object (this) with the argument object (that) for equivalence.
Any implementation of this method should be an equivalence relation:
- It is reflexive: for any instance x of type Any, x.equals(x) should return true.
- It is symmetric: for any instances x and y of type Any, x.equals(y) should return true if and only if y.equals(x) returns true.
- It is transitive: for any instances x, y, and z of type Any if x.equals(y) returns true and y.equals(z) returns true, then x.equals(z) should return true.
If you override this method, you should verify that your implementation remains an equivalence relation. Additionally, when overriding this method it is usually necessary to override hashCode to ensure that objects which are "equal" (o1.equals(o2) returns true) hash to the same scala.Int. (o1.hashCode.equals(o2.hashCode)).
returns
true if the receiver object is equivalent to the argument; false otherwise.
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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 Singleton toStringFormat[Singleton] performed by method StringFormat in scala.Predef.
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def hashCode(): Int
Calculate a hash code value for the object.
Calculate a hash code value for the object.
The default hashing algorithm is platform dependent.
Note that it is allowed for two objects to have identical hash codes (o1.hashCode.equals(o2.hashCode)) yet not be equal (o1.equals(o2) returns false). A degenerate implementation could always return 0. However, it is required that if two objects are equal (o1.equals(o2) returns true) that they have identical hash codes (o1.hashCode.equals(o2.hashCode)). Therefore, when overriding this method, be sure to verify that the behavior is consistent with the equals method.
returns
the hash code value for this object.
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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.
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def toString(): String
Returns a string representation of the object.
Returns a string representation of the object.
The default representation is platform dependent.
returns
a string representation of the object.
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def →[B](y: B): (Singleton, B)
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This member is added by an implicit conversion from Singleton toArrowAssoc[Singleton] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
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Singleton

final trait Singleton extends Any

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Inherited by implicit conversion any2stringadd fromSingleton to any2stringadd[Singleton]

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