Can't import scala.reflect.runtime.universe

Question

I'd like to play around with reflection in scala (2.10.2) by following the example in this tutorial. things work fine when I start the sbt (version 0.13) and import scala.refelct.runtime.universe._

scala> import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._                                                                                                                                       │~                                                                                                                                                                                   
import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._

but when I try to put the sample code to an object like

object ReflectExample {
   import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
   /*
    the rest of the Example
   */
}

and compile the code by sbt compile I see the following error message like:

[error]  object runtime is not a member of package reflect                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
[error]     import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._

Answer 1

As explained in sbt's documentation, you need to add this line to the libraryDependencies field of your project in build.sbt:

"org.scala-lang" % "scala-reflect" % scalaVersion.value

Answer 2

You may want to try adding dependency to http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.scala-lang/scala-reflect