While kantan.regex goes out of its way to provide default instance for as many types as it can,
some are made problematic by my desire to avoid runtime reflection. Fortunately, shapeless
provides compile time reflection, which makes it possible for the generic module to automatically derive instances
for more common types and patterns.
The generic module can be used by adding the following dependency to your build.sbt:
libraryDependencies += "com.nrinaudo" %% "kantan.regex-generic" % "0.1.6"
Let’s first declare the imports we’ll need in the rest of this tutorial:
import kantan.regex.implicits._ // Provides syntax and literal values.
import kantan.regex.generic._ // Provides automatic instance derivation.
The rest of this post will be a simple list of supported types.
GroupDecoderAny class of arity 1 such that the type of its sole field has a GroupDecoder has a GroupDecoder itself.
Let’s take a simple Wrapper class as an example:
case class Wrapper[A](a: A)
Without any further work, we can decode instances of Wrapper:
"123 and then 456".evalRegex[Wrapper[Int]](rx"\d+").foreach(println _)
// Right(Wrapper(123))
// Right(Wrapper(456))
Any sum type such that each of its alternatives has a GroupDecoder get a GroupDecoder for free.
For example, the following Or type:
sealed abstract class Or[+A, +B]
case class Left[A](value: A) extends Or[A, Nothing]
case class Right[B](value: B) extends Or[Nothing, B]
If both A and B have a GroupDecoder, then both Left and Right, being unary case classes, also do. If both
Left and Right have a GroupDecoder, all of Or[A, B]’s alternatives do and Or[A, B] also does:
"(123) and then (true)".evalRegex[Int Or Boolean](rx"\((\d+|true|false)\)", 1).foreach(println _)
// Right(Left(123))
// Right(Right(true))
MatchDecoderAny case class of arity one or more such that all of its fields have a MatchDecoder get a MatchDecoder for free.
For example, a silly Tuple2 implementation:
case class CustomTuple2[A, B](a: A, b: B)
If both A and B have MatchDecoder instances, so does CustomTuple2[A, B]:
"(1, false) and then (3, true)".evalRegex[CustomTuple2[Int, Boolean]](rx"\((\d+), (true|false)\)").foreach(println _)
// Right(CustomTuple2(1,false))
// Right(CustomTuple2(3,true))
Finally, any sum type such that all its alternatives have a MatchDecoder gets a MatchDecoder instance for free:
"(1, false) and then (3, foobar)".evalRegex[CustomTuple2[Int, Boolean] Or CustomTuple2[Int, String]](rx"\((\d+), ([a-z]+)\)").foreach(println _)
// Right(Left(CustomTuple2(1,false)))
// Right(Right(CustomTuple2(3,foobar)))