Reflection on a Scala case class

Question

I'm trying to write a trait (in Scala 2.8) that can be mixed in to a case class, allowing its fields to be inspected at runtime, for a particular debugging purpose. I want to get them back in the order that they were declared in the source file, and I'd like to omit any other fields inside the case class. For example:

trait CaseClassReflector extends Product {

  def getFields: List[(String, Any)] = {
    var fieldValueToName: Map[Any, String] = Map()
    for (field <- getClass.getDeclaredFields) {
      field.setAccessible(true)
      fieldValueToName += (field.get(this) -> field.getName) 
    }
    productIterator.toList map { value => fieldValueToName(value) -> value }
  }

}

case class Colour(red: Int, green: Int, blue: Int) extends CaseClassReflector {
  val other: Int = 42
}

scala> val c = Colour(234, 123, 23)
c: Colour = Colour(234,123,23)

scala> val fields = c.getFields    
fields: List[(String, Any)] = List((red,234), (green,123), (blue,23))

The above implementation is clearly flawed because it guesses the relationship between a field's position in the Product and its name by equality of the value on those field, so that the following, say, will not work:

Colour(0, 0, 0).getFields

Is there any way this can be implemented?

Answer 1

Here's a short and working version, based on the example above

  trait CaseClassReflector extends Product {
    def getFields = getClass.getDeclaredFields.map(field => {
      field setAccessible true
      field.getName -> field.get(this)
    })
  }