Elegant way to invert a map in Scala

Question

Learning Scala currently and needed to invert a Map to do some inverted value->key lookups. I was looking for a simple way to do this, but came up with only:

Answer 1

You can avoid the ._1 stuff while iterating in few ways.

Here's one way. This uses a partial function that covers the one and only case that matters for the map:

Map() ++ (origMap map {case (k,v) => (v,k)})

Here's another way:

import Function.tupled        
Map() ++ (origMap map tupled {(k,v) => (v,k)})

The map iteration calls a function with a two element tuple, and the anonymous function wants two parameters. Function.tupled makes the translation.