How to write the function isFunction in scala?

Question

How can i write a isFunction function in scala, so that this works:

def isFunction(x:Any) = /* SomeCode */

println(isFunction(isFunction _)) //true
println(isFu         


        

Answer 1

Quite ugly, but it works:

def isFunction(x:Any) = x match {
  case _: Function0[_] => true
  case _: Function1[_, _] => true
  case _: Function2[_, _, _] => true
  ...
  case _: Function22[...] => true
  case _: PartialFunction[_, _] => true
  case _ => false
}

Answer 2

I am not a special fan of your solution and I agree with Daniel Sobral comment. If I had to implement it I would do that in a type safe way, through implicit conversion

trait IsFunctionable {
  def isFunction : Boolean
}

object IsFunctionable {

  object IsFunction extends IsFunctionable {
    def isFunction = true
  }

  object IsNotFunction extends IsFunctionable {
    def isFunction = false
  }

  implicit def function0ToIsFunctionable[A<:Function0[_]](a:A):IsFunctionable = IsFunction
  implicit def function1ToIsFunctionable[A<:Function1[_,_]](a:A):IsFunctionable = IsFunction
  implicit def function2ToIsFunctionable[A<:Function2[_,_,_]](a:A):IsFunctionable = IsFunction
  // and so on

  implicit def anyToIsFunctionable[A](a:A):IsFunctionable = IsNotFunction
}

And now you can happily test in the repl:

scala>  import IsFunctionable._
import IsFunctionable._

scala>  val a: Int => Int = _ * 2
a: Int => Int = <function1>

scala>  val b: (Int,Int) => Int = (_*_)
b: (Int, Int) => Int = <function2>

scala>  a(3)
res0: Int = 6
scala>  b(2,4)
res3: Int = 8

scala>  a.isFunction
res4: Boolean = true

scala>  b.isFunction
res5: Boolean = true

scala>  "Hello".isFunction
res6: Boolean = false

Answer 3

In scala you can view Functions as just objects that have a public apply method. I am not familiar with the new scala 2.10 reflection api, but you can always use traditional java way as:

def isFunction(x:Any) = x.getClass.getMethods.map(_.getName).exists{name => 
  name == "apply" || name.startsWith("apply$")
}

val set = Set(1, 2)
val str = "abc"
val func = { _:Int=> 1 }
val map = Map(1 -> 2)
val tuple = 1->2
val obj = new { def apply = 1 }
val obj2 = new { private def apply = 2 } 

assert(isFunction(set))
assert(!isFunction(str))
assert(isFunction(func))
assert(isFunction(map))
assert(!isFunction(tuple))
assert(isFunction(obj))
assert(!isFunction(obj2))