Basic purpose of this workshop is to try out and learn how to use Slick - functional relational mapping library made by Lightbend with combination of Cats Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming. During this workshop you will be able to get some practical knowledge of how to manage dirty database operations in a clean and elegant approach using functional programming. Workshop is aimed at beginners starting their journey with Scala willing to know how to create elegant persistence layer in their applications.
This workshop consists of presentation in which some basic concepts of both slick and cats are explained and series of exercises located in this repository. All exercises consists of methods and that user is supposed to implement and tests for them to verify if they were written correctly. Exercises are located in test.scala.exercises package.
http://bartosz822.github.io/slick-cats-workshop-presentation
- clone repository
- open sbt in root directory of project and wait for dependencies to be downloaded
- make sure everything compiles
- type
testin sbt console (all tests should fail) - follow comments and implements all workshop methods
Recommended IntelliJ version 2018.1 or higher
- clone repository
- open project as an sbt project and wait for sbt to download all dependencies
- make sure everything compiles
- click with left click on exercises package and select
Run all ScalaTests...(they should all fail) - follow comments and implements all workshop methods
This workshop uses in memory H2 database as data source
