TypeTest

scala.reflect.TypeTest

See theTypeTest companion object

trait TypeTest[-S, T] extends Serializable

A TypeTest[S, T] contains the logic needed to know at runtime if a value of type S is an instance of T.

If a pattern match is performed on a term of type s: S that is uncheckable with s.isInstanceOf[T] and the pattern is one of the following forms:

t: T
t @ X() where X.unapply takes an argument of type T then a given instance of TypeTest[S, T] is summoned and used to perform the test.

Attributes

Companion: object
Source: TypeTest.scala
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Supertypes: trait Serializable

class Object

trait Matchable

class Any

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Abstract methods

A TypeTest[S, T] can serve as an extractor that matches if and only if a value of type S is an instance of T.

The compiler tries to turn unchecked type tests in pattern matches into checked ones by wrapping a (_: T) type pattern as tt(_: T), where tt is the TypeTest[S, T] instance. Type tests necessary before calling other extractors are treated similarly. SomeExtractor(...) is turned into tt(SomeExtractor(...)) if T in SomeExtractor.unapply(x: T) is uncheckable, but we have an instance of TypeTest[S, T].

Attributes

Source: TypeTest.scala

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