Case class to map in Scala

Question

Is there a nice way I can convert a Scala case class instance, e.g.

case class MyClass(param1: String, param2: String)
val x = MyClass("hello", "world")

into a mapping of some kind, e.g.

getCCParams(x) returns "param1" -> "hello", "param2" -> "world"

Which works for any case class, not just predefined ones. I've found you can pull the case class name out by writing a method that interrogates the underlying Product class, e.g.

def getCCName(caseobj: Product) = caseobj.productPrefix 
getCCName(x) returns "MyClass"

So I'm looking for a similar solution but for the case class fields. I'd imagine a solution might have to use Java reflection, but I'd hate to write something that might break in a future release of Scala if the underlying implementation of case classes changes.

Currently I'm working on a Scala server and defining the protocol and all its messages and exceptions using case classes, as they are such a beautiful, concise construct for this. But I then need to translate them into a Java map to send over the messaging layer for any client implementation to use. My current implementation just defines a translation for each case class separately, but it would be nice to find a generalised solution.

Answer 1

This should work:

def getCCParams(cc: AnyRef) =
  cc.getClass.getDeclaredFields.foldLeft(Map.empty[String, Any]) { (a, f) =>
    f.setAccessible(true)
    a + (f.getName -> f.get(cc))
  }