How to get ClassTag form TypeTag, or both at same time?

Question

I have some code like this:

class ReflectiveJsonFormat[T:TypeTag] extends JsonFormat[T] {
  def write(x: T) : JsValue = {
   val t = typeOf[T]
   val getters         


        

Answer 1

Well scala does support multiple context bounds if that is what you are after:

class ReflectiveJsonFormat[T:TypeTag:ClassTag] 

Answer 2

The library doesn't provide a built-in method that directly converts a TypeTag to a ClassTag, but you can write one:

import reflect.runtime.universe._
import reflect.ClassTag

def typeToClassTag[T: TypeTag]: ClassTag[T] = {
  ClassTag[T]( typeTag[T].mirror.runtimeClass( typeTag[T].tpe ) )
}

Then in your method just add before the implicit ClassTag is needed:

implicit val c = typeToClassTag[T]