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This document summarizes how extractor objects work in Scala. An extractor object has an unapply method that takes an object and tries to return its arguments. The example shows a Customer extractor object with an apply method that combines first and last names, and an unapply method that splits a customer name on comma and returns the first name. When a value matches the Customer extractor pattern, it calls unapply to extract the first name argument. The output prints the extracted first name.

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Bala's Blog: Java, Big Data and Technology

This document summarizes how extractor objects work in Scala. An extractor object has an unapply method that takes an object and tries to return its arguments. The example shows a Customer extractor object with an apply method that combines first and last names, and an unapply method that splits a customer name on comma and returns the first name. When a value matches the Customer extractor pattern, it calls unapply to extract the first name argument. The output prints the extracted first name.

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MARCH 23, 2019


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Scala Extractor Objects

An Extractor object is an object with an unapply method which takes an object and tries to give back its
arguments.

As we all know that apply method of an Object takes arguments and creates an object and the unapply
method will do the reverse.

Lets see this with an example.


object Customer {

def apply(firstName: String, lastName: String) = firstName + "," + lastName

def unapply(customerName: String): Option[String] = {


val nameArray = customerName.split(",")
if (nameArray.nonEmpty) nameArray.headOption else None
}

def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {


val customer = Customer("Balachandar", "Kuppusamy")

customer match {
case Customer(name) => println(s"FirstName is:$name")
case _ => println("Could not extract Name")
}
}
}

In the above code, Customer is an object and the apply method takes first and last names and combine
those names with a comma symbol and the unapply method takes the name and split it and then return
the first name as an output.

Customer(“Balachandar”, “Kuppusamy”) is a shorthand for calling Customer.apply(“Balchandar”,


“Kuppusamy”) and case Customer(name) is a shorthand for calling Customer.apply(name).

The output of the above program will look like below,

FirstName is:Balachandar

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