Loaner Pattern in Scala

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Make sure that whatever you compute is evaluated eagerly and no longer depends on the resource. Scala makes lazy computation fairly easy. For instance, if you wrap scala.io.Source.fromFile in this way, you might try

readFile("test.txt")(_.getLines)

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work because getLines is lazy (returns an iterator). And Scala doesn’t have any great way to indicate which methods are lazy and which are not. So you just have to know (docs will tend to tell you), and you have to actually do the work before returning:

readFile("test.txt")(_.getLines.toVector)

Overall, it’s a very useful pattern. Just make sure that all accesses to the resource are completed before exiting the block (so no uncompleted futures, no lazy vals that depend on the resource, no iterators, no returning the resource itself, no streams that haven’t been fully read, etc.; of course any of these things are okay if they do not depend on the open resource but only on some fully-computed quantity based upon the resource).

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