Why Option matters in Scala
Option[Something] type is really useful in Scala language while it can help you to avoid some NullPointerExceptions errors and probably necessary checks. “Option” is one of the simpliest and basic types in Scala, so if you want to learn Scala - you should know how it works. A very simple explanation is given here. And apparently you can google for more resources if you want.
So, I just want you to show a small basisc snippet that can be efficiently used in your Play2 view templates (Play! is a powerfull scala framework) :
Map? What? Yes! It is a common pattern to extract values from Option[Class] container. So the advice here - to extract values exactly in place or right before it is needed.
While I am just a newbie in Scala and Play! framework my source code is full of the following constructs :
Also, depending on next lines of code you should write something like this
It is very useful and good approach as if someting not equals Some(value), but equals nothing, i.e. None. Probably there are other nice patterns to use in Scala, but I’ll show them to you some time later!