Filtering when using custom column type in Slick

Question

I'm having some difficulties querying/filtering in Slick 2.1.0 when using a custom column type. A simplified version of my problem:

import scala.slick.driver.MySQLDriver.simple._

sealed class Status(val intValue: Int)
case object Active extends Status(1)
case object Disabled extends Status(2)
case object Deleted extends Status(3)

case class TableMapping(id: Long, status: Status)

class MyTableDefinition(tag: Tag) extends Table[TableMapping](tag, "sometable") {
  implicit val statusColumnType = MappedColumnType.base[Status, Int](statusToInt, intToStatus)

  def id = column[Long]("ID", O.PrimaryKey, O.AutoInc)
  def status = column[Status]("STATUS", O.NotNull, O.Default(Active))
  def * = (id, status) <> (TableMapping.tupled, TableMapping.unapply)

  private def statusToInt(s: Status): Int = s.intValue
  private def intToStatus(i: Int): Status = i match {
    case 1 => Active
    case 2 => Disabled
    case _ => Deleted
  }
}

class MyTableDao {
    val Items = TableQuery[MyTableDefinition]
    def byId(id: Long)(implicit session: Session): Option[TableMapping] = {
      Items.filter(_.status =!= Deleted).firstOption
    }
}

I get a compile error on this:

Items.filter(_.status =!= Deleted).firstOption

The error states:

value =!= is not a member of scala.slick.lifted.Column[Status]
[error] def byId(id: Long)(implicit session: Session): Option[TableMapping] =
  Items.filter(_.status =!= Deleted).firstOption

Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? Maybe there is a much better way of doing this that I'm not aware of?

Answer 1

The thing is that the Scala compiler will look for an implicit convertion for Deleted.type instead of Status.

As Deleted is declared as an object it is not a class, its actual class is Deleted.type, so you just have to help the compiler to understand that is actually a Status. How? You can try

class MyTableDao {
val Items = TableQuery[MyTableDefinition]

def byId(id: Long)(implicit session: Session): Option[TableMapping] =
    Items.filter(_.status =!= Deleted.asInstanceOf[Status]).firstOption
}

That'll do it.

Let me know if it did work, I'm facing a similar problem and I was able to get rid of it doing that.