Suppress “discarded non-Unit value” warning

Question

I have added the scalac command line argument -Ywarn-value-discard to my build because this would have caught a subtle bug that I just found in my code. However, I now get some warnings for "discarded non-Unit value" that are about intentional discards, not bugs. How do I suppress those warnings?

Answer 1

You suppress these warning by explictly returning unit (that is ()). By example turn this:

def method1() = {
   println("Hello")
   "Bye"
}
def method2() {
  method1() // Returns "Bye", whihc is implicitly discarded
}

into:

def method1() = {
   println("Hello")
   "Bye"
}
def method2() {
  method1()
  () // Explicitly return unit
}

Answer 2

According to this answer, you can also use the syntax val _, i.e.

def method2(): Unit = {
  val _ = method1()
}

But there is some dispute over whether this or the answer by @Régis is the preferred style.

Answer 3

Now you can suppress value-discard warning via type ascription to Unit in Scala 2.131.

This is a exmaple:

def suppressValueDiscard(): Unit =
  "": Unit