HList to nested Map
I would like to transform an HList type parameter to a nested Map-type, e.g. Int :: String :: String :: HNil should become Map[Int, Map[String, Map[String, T]]]] where T would be another type parameter of the same function, like: def somedef[T, L <: HList](t: T)(implicit f: ???): f.Out where f.Out is T in case of HNil or a nested Map-structure with dept L.size Is there any way this can be done? I'm not aware of a standard thing to do such a transformation, but you could roll out your custom converter in the same way as various HList ops (like map ) are implemented inside shapeless (see trait