Constructing scala.collection.Map from other collections, I constantly find myself writing:
val map = Map(foo.map(x=>(x, f(x)))
However, this doesn't really work since Map.apply takes variable arguments only - so I have to write:
val map = Map(foo.map(x=>(x, f(x)) toSeq :_*)
to get what I want, but that seems painful. Is there a prettier way to construct a Map from an Iterable of tuples?
Use TraversableOnce.toMap which is defined if the elements of a Traversable/Iterable are of type Tuple2. (API)
val map = foo.map(x=>(x, f(x)).toMap
foo.mapValues(f).toMap.
Alternatively you can use use collection.breakOut as the implicit CanBuildFrom argument to the map call; this will pick a result builder based on the expected type.
scala> val x: Map[Int, String] = (1 to 5).map(x => (x, "-" * x))(collection.breakOut)
x: Map[Int,String] = Map(5 -> -----, 1 -> -, 2 -> --, 3 -> ---, 4 -> ----)
It will perform better than the .toMap version, as it only iterates the collection once.
It's not so obvious, but this also works with a for-comprehension.
scala> val x: Map[Int, String] = (for (i <- (1 to 5)) yield (i, "-" * i))(collection.breakOut)
x: Map[Int,String] = Map(5 -> -----, 1 -> -, 2 -> --, 3 -> ---, 4 -> ----)
CanBuildFrom craziness, it is useful for the case where I want to convert an immutable range to a mutable.Map, where the answer I accepted before just gives me a type error.val map = foo zip (foo map f) toMap
