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fishlips

Reputation: 804

Matching generic types in Scala macros

I have a Scala (2.10) def macro with argument x. It's body looks like this:

if (x.actualType =:= typeOf[generic.Type[String]]) {
  // branch 1: do something with x
}
else {
  // branch 2: do something else
}

The implementation of the generic.Type class itself is not accessible and its implementation cannot be modified. Now, I'd like this macro to call branch 1 not just for generic.Type[String] s, but for generic.Type[T] , where T is any type.

Is there a canonical way to achieve that? Or is the only option doing it manually using the AST?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 375

Answers (1)

Eugene Burmako
Eugene Burmako

Reputation: 13048

Try x.actualType.typeSymbol == typeOf[generic.Type[_]].typeSymbol

Upvotes: 2

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