Merge pull request #33 from chaitanyawaikar/task/SCALA-28-lazy_val_deep_dive

Diving Deep into Lazy Vals

Author: KevinGilmore

core-scala/src/main/scala/com/baeldung/scala/LazyVal.scala

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+package com.baeldung.scala
+
+import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
+import scala.concurrent._
+import scala.concurrent.duration._
+
+class LazyVal {
+
+  var age = 27
+
+  lazy val getMemberNo = {
+    age = age + 1
+    8
+  }
+}
+
+object FirstObj {
+  lazy val initialState = 42
+  lazy val start = SecondObj.initialState
+}
+
+object SecondObj {
+  lazy val initialState = FirstObj.initialState
+}
+
+object Deadlock extends App {
+  def run = {
+    val result = Future.sequence(Seq(
+      Future {
+        FirstObj.start
+      },
+      Future {
+        SecondObj.initialState
+      }))
+    Await.result(result, 10.second)
+  }
+
+  run
+}
+
+object LazyValStore {
+
+  lazy val squareOf5 = square(5)
+  lazy val squareOf6 = square(6)
+
+  def square(n: Int): Int = n * n
+}
+
+object SequentialLazyVals extends App {
+  def run = {
+    val futures = Future.sequence(Seq(
+      Future {
+        LazyValStore.squareOf5
+      },
+      Future {
+        LazyValStore.squareOf6
+      }))
+    Await.result(futures, 5.second)
+  }
+
+  run.foreach(println)
+}

core-scala/src/test/scala/com/baeldung/scala/LazyValUnitTest.scala

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+package com.baeldung.scala
+
+import org.scalatest.FunSuite
+import org.scalatest.Matchers._
+
+import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
+import scala.concurrent.duration._
+import scala.concurrent.{Future, _}
+import com.baeldung.scala
+
+class LazyValUnitTest extends FunSuite {
+
+  test("lazy val is computed only once") {
+    //given
+    val lazyVal = new LazyVal
+    lazyVal.getMemberNo //initialize the lazy val
+    lazyVal.age shouldBe 28
+
+    //when
+    lazyVal.getMemberNo
+
+    //then
+    lazyVal.age shouldBe 28
+  }
+
+  test("lazy vals should execute sequentially in an instance ") {
+    //given
+    val futures = Future.sequence(Seq(
+      Future {
+        scala.LazyValStore.squareOf5
+      },
+      Future {
+        scala.LazyValStore.squareOf6
+      }))
+
+    //when
+    val result = Await.result(futures, 5.second)
+
+    //then
+    result should contain(25)
+    result should contain(36)
+  }
+}