Scala: How to determine the exception type of a Failure

Question

Look at this code snippet:

userService.insert(user) match {
  case Success(f) => Logger.debug("User created successfully")
  case Failure(e) => {
     // how do I determine the type of `e`?
  }
}

How do I determine the type of the exception contained by Failure? I need to take different actions depending on the exception type.

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Answer 1

case Success(f) => 
case Failure(e: ExceptionType1) =>
case Failure(e: ExceptionType2) => 
case Failure(e) => // other

or

case Success(f) =>
case Failure(e) => e match {
   case e1: ExceptionType1 =>
   case e2: ExceptioNType2 =>
   case _ => 
}

Pendulum

@Didier, which seems more idiomatic to you? The latter seems clearer to me since the inner match relates to Exceptions only. – Afterimage

Not sure if one of them is more standard. I believe I would use the first one, except if there is a common behavior in case of failure: you may put other instructions than the e match in the Failure case. Both look fine to me, use whichever one suits you. – Pendulum

I think the first is much clearer as it avoids nesting; even in the presence of shared behaviour I'd be more inclined to use case Failure(e: Ex1) | Failure(e: Ex2) => …. – Adequate

There might be some behavior common to both exception and some specific to each? – Pendulum

Answer 2

or

case Success(f) =>
case Failure(e @ _: ExceptionType1) =>
case Failure(e @ _: ExceptionType2 | ExceptionType3) =>
case Failure(e) =>

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