Example in Scala of hashmap forall() method?
Can someone please give an example of how to use the HashMap forall() method? I find the Scala docs to be impenetrable.
What I want is something like this:
val myMap = HashMap[Int, Int](1 -> 10, 2 -> 20)
val areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey = myMap.forall((k, v) => k * 10 == v)
but this gives:
error: wrong number of parameters; expected = 1
You need instead
val myMap = HashMap[Int, Int](1 -> 10, 2 -> 20)
val areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey = myMap.forall { case (k, v) => k * 10 == v }
The problem is that forall wants a function that takes a single Tuple2 , rather than two arguments. (We're thinking of a Map[A,B] as an Iterable[(A,B)] when we use forall .) Using a case statement is a nice workaround; it's really using pattern matching here to break apart the Tuple2 and give the parts names.
If you don't want to use pattern matching, you could have also written
val areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey = myMap.forall(p => p._1 * 10 == p._2 }
but I think that's less helpful.
forall is passed a single (Int, Int) Tuple (as opposed to multiple parameters). Consider this (which explicitly shows a single tuple value is decomposed):
val areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey = myMap.forall(t => t match { case (k, v) => k * 10 == v })
Or, the short-hand (which actually passes a PartialFunction):
val areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey = myMap.forall {case (k, v) => k * 10 == v}
(These both decompose the tuple take in.)
Additionally, the function can be "tupled"ed:
val myMap = Map((1,10), (2,20))
val fn = (k: Int, v: Int) => k * 10 == v
val tupled_fn = fn.tupled
val areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey = myMap.forall(tupled_fn)
myMap: scala.collection.immutable.Map[Int,Int] = Map((1,10), (2,20))
fn: (Int, Int) => Boolean = // takes in two parameters
tupled_fn: ((Int, Int)) => Boolean = // note that it now takes in a single Tuple
areAllValuesTenTimesTheKey: Boolean = true
Happy coding.
The problem with your code, is that you give forall method a function, that accepts 2 arguments and returns Boolean , or in other words (Int, Int) => Boolean . If you will look in the documentation, then you will find this signature:
def forall (p: ((A, B)) => Boolean): Boolean
in this case forall method expects Tuple2[A, B] => Boolean , so it also can be written like this:
def forall (p: Tuple2[A, B] => Boolean): Boolean
In order to fix your example you can either call forall and give it function, that accepts 1 tuple argument:
myMap.forall(keyVal => keyVal._1 * 10 == keyVal._2)
or you make patterns match and extract key and value:
myMap.forall {case (k, v) => k * 10 == v}
In this case you are giving PartialFunction[(Int, Int), Boolean] to the forall method