Understanding method invocation in Scala

Question

I'm pretty new to Scala and came from Java and got confused by some piece of code when reading this documentation. Here is the code.

val route =
      path("hello") {
        get {
          complete(HttpEntity(ContentTypes.`text/html(UTF-8)`, "<h1>Say hello to akka-http</h1>"))
        }
      }

Where path("hello") is the method of trait:

trait PathDirectives /*extends omitted*/ {

    def path[L](pm: PathMatcher[L]): Directive[L] = pathPrefix(pm ~ PathEnd)
   // the rest omitted
}

So, when we invoke the path("hello") method we would need an object implementing the trait to invoke it on. But in the example it was just a method invocation. Just like a static method.

What did I miss?

sepp2k · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-30 18:19:10Z

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So, when we invoke the path("hello") method we would need an object implementing the trait to invoke it on.

Yes, and that object is akka.http.scaladsl.server.Directives. The reason that you don't need to write Directives.path is that the code imports Directives._, so you can call Directives' methods directly (similar to a static import in Java except the method doesn't have to be static).

answered Oct 30, 2016 at 18:19

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