Question

I have an Array[Any] from Java JPA containing (two in this case, but consider any a small number of) differently-typed things. I would like to represent these as tuples instead.

I have some quick and dirty conversion code, and wondered how it could be improved and perhaps made more generic.

val pair = query.getSingleOrNone // returns Option[Any] (actually a Java array)
pair collect { case array: Array[Any] =>
  (array(0).asInstanceOf[MyClass1], array(1).asInstanceOf[MyClass2]) }

Answer 1

How about this?

val pair = query.getSingleOrNone
pair collect { case Array(x: MyClass1, y: MyClass2, _*) => (x,y) }
// result would be Option[(MyClass1, MyClass2)]