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Learn Scala Programming

You're reading from   Learn Scala Programming A comprehensive guide covering functional and reactive programming with Scala 2.13, Akka, and Lagom

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836302
Length 498 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Slava Schmidt Slava Schmidt
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to Scala 2.13 2. Understanding Types in Scala FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Dive into Functions 4. Getting to Know Implicits and Type Classes 5. Property-Based Testing in Scala 6. Exploring Built-In Effects 7. Understanding Algebraic Structures 8. Dealing with Effects 9. Familiarizing Yourself with Basic Monads 10. A Look at Monad Transformers and Free Monad 11. An Introduction to the Akka and Actor Models 12. Building Reactive Applications with Akka Typed 13. Basics of Akka Streams 14. Project 1 - Building Microservices with Scala 15. Project 2 - Building Microservices with Lagom 16. Preparing the Environment and Running Code Samples 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Monad transformers

Let's hold on for a second and recap what we just did.

We made a small sacrifice and increased the complexity of the return type of our original functions to some "common denominator" type. This sacrifice is rather small because in our example, as well as in real life, this is usually done by just lifting the original functions into their proper context.

The signatures we came up with look a little awkward, but this is partly because we started to develop them as concrete implementations. In fact, the user-facing API of our fishing component should be similar to the following snippet straight from the beginning, if implemented in a more abstract way:

abstract class FishingApi[F[_]: Monad] {

val buyBait: String => F[Bait]
val castLine: Bait => F[Line]
val hookFish: Line => F[Fish]

def goFishing(bestBaitForFish: F[String]): F[Fish]...
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