Explore additional Box combinators and hierarchical improvements
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Description
A few possibilities:
- Add `collect` to `Box`. This can be useful for `PartialFunction`-based combined filter+map operations on boxes as they are on collections.
- Add some sort of `mapFailure` that behaves similarly to `map` but only runs with a `Failure`. This would allow running a function only when the box is a `Failure`, without having to do a `match` that has to deal with the other three box states.
- Restructure the `Box` hierarchy a little to allow a type that indicates “only `Empty` or `Full`” and another that indicates “only `Failure` or `Full`”, for example.
- Add logging helpers for `Box` if possible (may need to be in `lift-util`).
For the last one, an untested proposal I posted to gitter a while back:
```scala
sealed trait Box[+T]
sealed trait PresenceBox[+T] extends Box[T]
sealed trait TryBox[+T] extends Box[T]
sealed abstract class EmptyBox extends Box[Nothing] // Empty or Failure
case class Failure(msg: String, exception: PresenceBox[Throwable], chain: PresenceBox[Failure]) extends EmptyBox with TryBox[Nothing]
case object Empty extends EmptyBox with PresenceBox[Nothing]
case class Full[T](item: T) extends TryBox[T] with PresenceBox[T]
```
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing Box hierarchy and the PartialFunction-related behavior described in the issue, then inspect lift-util for the proposed logging helpers. Compare the collect, mapFailure, hierarchy, and logging proposals with the current Box API and discussion; the work is only done once a focused design and agreed scope are established.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100