+1.
It is a little bit harder to read for new comers but not really a big deal.
On Dec 26, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> wrote:
> In code added to Spark over the past several months, I'm glad to see more
> use of `foreach`, `for`, `map` and `flatMap` over `Option` instead of
> pattern matching boilerplate. There are opportunities to push `Option`
> idioms even further now that we are using Scala 2.10 in master, but I want
> to discuss the issue here a little bit before committing code whose form
> may be a little unfamiliar to some Spark developers.
>
> In particular, I really like the use of `fold` with `Option` to cleanly an
> concisely express the "do something if the Option is None; do something
> else with the thing contained in the Option if it is Some" code fragment.
>
> An example:
>
> Instead of...
>
> val driver = drivers.find(_.id == driverId)
> driver match {
> case Some(d) =>
> if (waitingDrivers.contains(d)) { waitingDrivers -= d }
> else {
> d.worker.foreach { w =>
> w.actor ! KillDriver(driverId)
> }
> }
> val msg = s"Kill request for $driverId submitted"
> logInfo(msg)
> sender ! KillDriverResponse(true, msg)
> case None =>
> val msg = s"Could not find running driver $driverId"
> logWarning(msg)
> sender ! KillDriverResponse(false, msg)
> }
>
> ...using fold we end up with...
>
> driver.fold
> {
> val msg = s"Could not find running driver $driverId"
> logWarning(msg)
> sender ! KillDriverResponse(false, msg)
> }
> { d =>
> if (waitingDrivers.contains(d)) { waitingDrivers -= d }
> else {
> d.worker.foreach { w =>
> w.actor ! KillDriver(driverId)
> }
> }
> val msg = s"Kill request for $driverId submitted"
> logInfo(msg)
> sender ! KillDriverResponse(true, msg)
> }
>
>
> So the basic pattern (and my proposed formatting standard) for folding over
> an `Option[A]` from which you need to produce a B (which may be Unit if
> you're only interested in side effects) is:
>
> anOption.fold
> {
> // something that evaluates to a B if anOption = None
> }
> { a =>
> // something that transforms `a` into a B if anOption = Some(a)
> }
>
>
> Any thoughts? Does anyone really, really hate this style of coding and
> oppose its use in Spark?
