permanently hidden warning in scala application

Question

I get the following warning whenever I start my Scala application:

WARN - imported `SVNProperties\' is permanently hidden by definition of object SVNProperties in packag

Answer 1

Just to further expand on a comment posted by Nick, as this was the case for me:

Another common cause is that SVNProperties is in the same package and so is already in scope. Trying to import it explicitly results in this warning.

More concretely, you may have:

package app.core

// No need to import the following - it is already visible as 
// you are in the same package
import app.core.SVNProperties

object SVNResource {

Use instead:

package app.core

object SVNResource {

(Opinion) As a matter of coding style you may want to camel case your variables differently like for eg. SvnProperties, SvnResource. It reads easier for most people, see also this question.