Dynamically create case class

Question

I am using a csv library that takes a case class and turns it into rows for me to read.

The syntax is pretty close to File(path).asCsvReader[caseClass].

Answer 1

So basically you need a runtime information about your case class? I guess you should use ClassTag:

import scala.reflect._

def asCsvReader[T: ClassTag]: T = {
  classTag[T].runtimeClass.getDeclaredConstructor(...).newInstance(...)
  ...
}

This will allow you to instantiate your case class at runtime.

Since you can figure out the types of your CSV columns you can provide the appropriate types into getDeclaredConstructor and newInstance methods.