Write an implicit conversion. Scala doesnt manage return types much. Its unnecessary baggage. I rather like that and wish I could use it in my work.
*Robert Simmons Jr. MSc. - Lead Java Architect @ EA* *Author of: Hardcore Java (2003) and Maintainable Java (2012)* *LinkedIn: **http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-simmons/40/852/a39* On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Dale King <dalewk...@gmail.com> wrote: > The language support in the Scala DSL is too simplistic in that it does not > support all the options of Java DSL. > > In particular it does not allow setting the return type of the expression. > In my case I am trying to set a header to the result of an xpath count > expression. In the Java DSL this fails unless you explicitly set the return > type of the xpath expression because the default return type for xpath is a > node set and it cannot convert a number to a node set. > > It also lacks all the other overloads for things like Namespaces on xpath, > etc. > > -- > Dale King >
