spray Blog The Magnet Pattern

In this post I'd like to shine some light on one particular implementation technique that is used extensively under the hood of sprays routing DSL and which has turned out as a very valuable tool in our "pattern toolbox". It solves certain kinds of problems in Scala API design and DSL development, especially (but not only) with regard to overloaded methods. We call it the magnet pattern and, hopefully, by the time you've finished reading this post this name will make sense to you.