Question

I would like to traverse a collection resulting from the Scala JSON toolkit at github.
The problem is that the JsonParser returns “Any” so I am wondering how I can avoid the following error:

“Value foreach is not a member of Any”.

val json = Json.parse(urls)

for(l <- json) {...}

object Json {
  def parse(s: String): Any = (new JsonParser).parse(s)
}

Answer 1

You will have to do pattern matching to traverse the structures returned from the parser.

/*
 * (untested)
 */
def printThem(a: Any) {
  a match {
    case l:List[_] => 
      println("List:")
      l foreach printThem
    case m:Map[_, _] =>
      for ( (k,v) <- m ) {
        print("%s -> " format k)
        printThem(v)
      }
    case x => 
      println(x)
  }
val json = Json.parse(urls)
printThem(json)