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Learning Scala Programming

By : Vikash Sharma
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Learning Scala Programming

By: Vikash Sharma

Overview of this book

Scala is a general-purpose programming language that supports both functional and object-oriented programming paradigms. Due to its concise design and versatility, Scala's applications have been extended to a wide variety of fields such as data science and cluster computing. You will learn to write highly scalable, concurrent, and testable programs to meet everyday software requirements. We will begin by understanding the language basics, syntax, core data types, literals, variables, and more. From here you will be introduced to data structures with Scala and you will learn to work with higher-order functions. Scala's powerful collections framework will help you get the best out of immutable data structures and utilize them effectively. You will then be introduced to concepts such as pattern matching, case classes, and functional programming features. From here, you will learn to work with Scala's object-oriented features. Going forward, you will learn about asynchronous and reactive programming with Scala, where you will be introduced to the Akka framework. Finally, you will learn the interoperability of Scala and Java. After reading this book, you'll be well versed with this language and its features, and you will be able to write scalable, concurrent, and reactive programs in Scala.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

ScalaMock – a native library to mock objects


As we discussed, at instances where we need some other services that we are yet to define or it's harder to create their instances since using them is a matter of complexity, we tend to use some Mocking framework.

ScalaMock is a native framework available in Scala. To include ScalaMock in our project, we'll add a dependency for it in our build.sbt file. Let's do that. We'll add the following line in the build file:

libraryDependencies += "org.scalamock" %% "scalamock" % "4.0.0" % Test 

We've specified the test scope, because we're sure that scalamock is only going to be used in our test cases. After writing this dependency, we'll perform an sbt update command by calling the sbt update command in the SBT shell. This update is going to add the scalamock dependency to our project. We can ensure this by taking a look at the external sources folder. There's going to be a dependency with the scalamock name. If that's available there, we are ready to mock...