How to check for null or false in Scala concisely?

Question

In Groovy language, it is very simple to check for null or false like:

groovy code:

def some = getSomething()
if(some) {
//         


        

Answer 1

What you ask for is something in the line of Safe Navigation Operator (?.) of Groovy, andand gem of Ruby, or accessor variant of the existential operator (?.) of CoffeeScript. For such cases, I generally use ? method of my RichOption[T], which is defined as follows

class RichOption[T](option: Option[T]) {
  def ?[V](f: T => Option[V]): Option[V] = option match {
    case Some(v) => f(v)
    case _ => None
  }
}

implicit def option2RichOption[T](option: Option[T]): RichOption[T] =
  new RichOption[T](option)

and used as follows

scala> val xs = None
xs: None.type = None

scala> xs.?(_ => Option("gotcha"))
res1: Option[java.lang.String] = None

scala> val ys = Some(1)
ys: Some[Int] = Some(1)

scala> ys.?(x => Some(x * 2))
res2: Option[Int] = Some(2)