What does "=>" mean in import in scala?

Question

I am new to scala. I am looking through some code and came up with a code that imports com.infinite.usermanagement.controllers.{ SecurityService => BaseSecurityService } package. I was wondering what does => sign means in an import.

Answer 1

This line means you import the class SecurityService and rename it to BaseSecurityService. You can use this to prevent name conflicts, etc. You can use this class by using BaseSecurityService instead of the original class name.

A very common example is the following (to prevent mixing up Scala and Java classes):

import java.util.{Map => JMap, List => JList}