Scala Macros: Getting a List of TypeSymbols to be used at runtime

Question

Is there a way to return a List of TypeSymbols for each class under a package using macros?

What I am trying to achieve is to write a macro tha

Answer 1

You have to use reifyType to create reflection artifacts in the runtime universe:

import scala.language.experimental.macros
import scala.reflect.macros.Context

object PackageMacros {
  def allTypeSymbols[T](packageName: String) = macro allTypeSymbols_impl[T]

  def allTypeSymbols_impl[T: c.WeakTypeTag](c: Context)(
    packageName: c.Expr[String]
  ) = {
    import c.universe._

    val pkg = packageName.tree match {
      case Literal(Constant(name: String)) => c.mirror.staticPackage(name)
    }

    val types = pkg.typeSignature.members.collect {
      case sym: ClassSymbol =>
        c.reifyType(treeBuild.mkRuntimeUniverseRef, EmptyTree, sym.toType)
    }.toList

    val listApply = Select(reify(List).tree, newTermName("apply"))

    c.Expr[List[Any]](Apply(listApply, types))
  }
}

This will give you a list of type tags, not symbols, but you can pretty easily get the symbols, either like this:

scala> PackageMacros.allTypeSymbols("foo").map(_.tpe.typeSymbol) foreach println
class Baz$
class Bar
class Baz
trait FooTrait
class Bar$

Or in the macro itself.