Is there a SoftHashMap in Scala?

Question

I'm aware of this question for java, but none of those implementations seem to play well with scala.collection.JavaConversions.

I'm looking for something simple (e.g. single file, not a whole library) that implements SoftHashMap such that it plays well with Scala Map (i.e. supports getOrElseUpdate, unzip, and the remaining Scala Map methods).

Answer 1

Implementation inspired by this java WeakHashMap:

import scala.collection.mutable.{Map, HashMap}
import scala.ref._


class SoftMap[K, V <: AnyRef] extends Map[K, V]
{
  class SoftValue[K, +V <: AnyRef](val key:K, value:V, queue:ReferenceQueue[V]) extends SoftReference(value, queue)

  private val map = new HashMap[K, SoftValue[K, V]]

  private val queue = new ReferenceQueue[V]

  override def += (kv: (K, V)): this.type =
  {
    processQueue
    val sv = new SoftValue(kv._1, kv._2, queue)
    map(kv._1) = sv
    this
  }

  private def processQueue
  {
    while (true)
    {
      queue.poll match
      {   
        case Some(sv:SoftValue[K, _]) => map.remove(sv.key)
        case _ => return
      }
    }
  }


  override def get(key: K): Option[V] = map.get(key) match
  {
    case Some(sv) => sv.get match
      { case v:Some[_] => v
        case None => {map.remove(key); None} }
    case None => None
  }



  override def -=(key: K):this.type =
  {
    processQueue
    map.remove(key)
    this
  }

  override def iterator: Iterator[(K, V)] =
  {
    processQueue
    map.iterator.collect{ case (key, sv) if sv.get.isDefined => (key, sv.get.get) }
  }

  override def empty:SoftMap[K, V] = new SoftMap[K, V]

  override def size = {processQueue; map.size}
}

Answer 2

I found one in liftweb.

I do not use it yet, so check it yourself please.

http://scala-tools.org/mvnsites/liftweb-2.4-M5/net/liftweb/util/SoftReferenceCache.html