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Frédéric Nowak
Frédéric Nowak

Reputation: 115

How to access an object Foo contained in a scala package object from Java?

How to access an object Foo contained in a scala package object from Java? 

package object domain { object Foo }  domain$.MODULE$.Foo$.MODULE$

Upvotes: 11

Views: 3866

Answers (2)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 3068

Perhaps this has changed as of Scala 2.8.1, but the proposed domain$Foo$.MODULE$ doesn't work. You have to use domain.package$Foo$.MODULE$.

And it's a little different for objects, methods, etc. Given the scala class:

package object domain {
  object foo
  def bar = 42
  val baz = 1.0
}

You can access foo, bar and baz in Java like:

domain.package$foo$.MODULE$
domain.package$.MODULE$.bar()
domain.package$.MODULE$.baz()

While I was trying to figure this out, I thought we were in trouble because Scala generates a class named package, which of course you can't import in Java. Fortunately, we only need the package$ companion object, which you can import.

Upvotes: 5

Landei
Landei

Reputation: 54584

If you look at an object in an object in the Scala lib, e.g. scala.math.Ordering.Boolean, you can get it from Java using scala.math.Ordering$Boolean$.MODULE$. I see no reason why package objects shouldn't behave like normal objects in this regard, so your Foo instance should be domain$Foo$.MODULE$

Upvotes: 0

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