Scala: Making implicit conversion A->B work for Option[A] -> Option[B]

Question

I\'m trying to write a function which re-uses the implicit conversions which I have for Object A -> Object B when they are wrapped in an Option in a generic way so that Opti

Answer 1

I improved @jseureth answer and added support for Traversable:

trait Mappable[A, B, C[_]] {
  def apply(f: A => B): C[B]
}

package object app {

  implicit class OptionMappable[A, B, C[X] <: Option[X]](option: C[A]) extends Mappable[A, B, Option] {
    override def apply(f: A => B): Option[B] = option.map(f)
  }

  implicit class TraversableMappable[A, B, C[X] <: Traversable[X]](traversable: C[A])
    (implicit cbf: CanBuildFrom[C[A], B, C[B]]) extends Mappable[A, B, C] {
    override def apply(f: A => B): C[B] = {
      val builder = cbf(traversable)
      builder.sizeHint(traversable)
      builder ++= traversable.map(f)
      builder.result()
    }
  }

  implicit def liftConversion[C[_], A, B](x: C[A])
    (implicit f: A => B, m: C[A] => Mappable[A, B, C]): C[B] = m(x)(f)

}

Now you can implicitly convert options and traversables:

implicit def f(i: Int): String = s"$i"

val a: Option[String] = Some(1)
val b: Seq[String] = Seq(1, 2, 3)