refined
Refinement types for Scala (by fthomas)
Enumeratum
A type-safe, reflection-free, powerful enumeration implementation for Scala with exhaustive pattern match warnings and helpful integrations. (by lloydmeta)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
refined
Posts with mentions or reviews of refined.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.
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Make Invalid States Unrepresentable
Scala has quite good support for refined types across multiple libraries. A solution using the refined library might look something like
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Does the fthomas/refined library work differently in Scala 3?
Does the Refined library for Scala (at https://github.com/fthomas/refined; "eu.timepit" %% "refined") work in Scala 3? Does it work differently?
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Design by contract - Preconditions and Postconditions - I'm really amazed with Scala.
Scala likes to do design-by-contract on the type level. You encode your pre- and post- conditions into types. Libraries like iron (scala 3) https://github.com/Iltotore/iron and refined (scala 2) https://github.com/fthomas/refined allow you to do all that without throwing any exceptions and they can even enforce some simple predicates at compile time.
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Restrict uses of annotation in Scala
Annotation is not the only way (and probably not the best IMHO) to do refined types. You might be interested in Iron in Scala 3 or Refined in Scala 2/3.
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Can types replace validation?
In one respect, nothing. You’re right. Even given refinement types as in Haskell or Scala, there is indeed a necessarily-partial function (refineV in Scala) to refine a value to its refinement type.
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Simple, Naïve, and Wrong: More than you wanted to know about Scala Case Classes
This is more or less how derivation works when you want to use something like Refined types (it exposes Validate[Type, Refinement] typeclass if I remember correctly). Enumeratum exposes Enum[A], and newtypes expose Coercible[From, To].
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Opinions on implementing traits for validation with the help of a companion object
You will probably be interested into Iron or Refined.
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Help with Single Value Validated Types
You want either a refined type, a newtype, or if you are in Scala 3 an opaque type.
- Alan Kay's answer to What was the last breakthrough in computer programming?
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Why there is still no ExpressJS-like alternative in Scala?
This example uses probably the most popular JSON library for Scala, Circe. There is another Scala library that lets us "be more specific with," or "refine," our types, called Refined. http4s doesn't provide any particular support for Refined, but Circe has a module integrating Refined, meaning that all of Circe's parsing, encoding, and decoding support is integrated with Refined. Putting together http4s' Circe support, Circe's generic codec derivation, and Circe's Refined integration, here's what I came up with:
Enumeratum
Posts with mentions or reviews of Enumeratum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-26.
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Simple, Naïve, and Wrong: More than you wanted to know about Scala Case Classes
And for exactly the same reasons one shouldn't override equals and hashCode in a case class, they shouldn't manually implement an enumeration and instead let a well-tested macro (2.x) or the compiler itself (3.x) handle reliably doing the automated code generation. The more code that is generated by the compiler, the smaller the defects, technical debt, and security vulnerability surface areas.
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A survey of programming language enum support
For Scala, check out the enumeratum library (https://github.com/lloydmeta/enumeratum). In my opinion its the best enum implementation I know of. It has all the features defined in the table, and the syntax is really clean. It even supports unique associated values (eg. unique String/Int keys).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing refined and Enumeratum you can also consider the following projects:
Chimney - Scala library for boilerplate-free, type-safe data transformations
Scala Async - An asynchronous programming facility for Scala
Shapeless - Generic programming for Scala
Each - A macro library that converts native imperative syntax to scalaz's monadic expressions
Records for Scala - Labeled records for Scala based on structural refinement types and macros.
Scalaz - Principled Functional Programming in Scala
Cassovary - Cassovary is a simple big graph processing library for the JVM
Ammonite-Ops - Scala Scripting
scala-newtype - NewTypes for Scala with no runtime overhead
scribe - The fastest logging library in the world. Built from scratch in Scala and programmatically configurable.