I was not able to reuse withSource
directly to just print the source and value and return the value. The withSource
macro cannot be utilized from the same object itself (so I cannot just add my slightly modified version of withSource right in that file) and I am not able to call withSource
from a subclass of WithSourceHelper
, limiting reuse through inheritance.
In case anyone is interested, here is a complement to Senia's answer to just log the value with the source and return the value so the rest of the computation can occur.
def logValueImpl[T](c: Context): c.Expr[T] = {
import c.universe._
val source = c.prefix.tree match {
case Apply(_, List(s)) => s
case _ => c.abort(c.enclosingPosition, "can't find source")
}
val freshName = newTermName(c.fresh("logValue$"))
val valDef = ValDef(Modifiers(), freshName, TypeTree(source.tpe), source)
val ident = Ident(freshName)
val print = reify{
println(c.literal(show(source)).splice + ": " + c.Expr[T](ident).splice) }
c.Expr[T](Block(List(valDef, print.tree), ident))
}
I then define it as an implicit conversion on def p = macro Debug.logValueImpl[T]
. I can then use like this:
List(1, 2, 3).reverse.p.head
// prints: immutable.this.List.apply[Int](1, 2, 3).reverse: List(3, 2, 1)
The funny part is that I can apply it twice:
List(1, 2, 3).reverse.p.p
And it will show me what the logValueImpl
macro did:
{
val logValue$7: List[Int] = immutable.this.List.apply[Int](1, 2, 3).reverse;
Predef.println("immutable.this.List.apply[Int](1, 2, 3).reverse: ".+(logValue$7));
logValue$7
}
It seems to work with other macros as well:
f"float ${1.3f}%3.2f; str ${"foo".reverse}%s%n".p`
//prints:
{
val arg$1: Float = 1.3;
val arg$2: Any = scala.this.Predef.augmentString("foo").reverse;
scala.this.Predef.augmentString("float %3.2f; str %s%%n").format(arg$1, arg$2)
}: float 1.30; str oof%n
Even more interestingly if I used showRaw
instead of show
I can even see the tree of the expanded macro, which may come handy to figure out how to write other macros.