Support optionally printing parameter names

It’d be awesome if pprint also supported rendering of parameter names.

E.g., an instance of type

case class Color(red: Byte, green: Byte, blue: Byte)

could be rendered as

Color(red = 10, green = 20, blue = 30)

instead of

Color(10, 20, 30)

[SethTisue]

scala/scala#6972 was merged (and included in Scala 2.13.0-M5), so maybe there’s hope for this now on Scala 2.13?

[vidma]

yup, IMHO for scala 2.13 productElementNames should yield a pretty neat and simple solution.

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here my current pprint customization for scala 2.11+ by adding additional handlers to pprint, e.g.:

for:

  pprint2 = pprint.copy(additionalHandlers = pprintAdditionalHandlers)

  case class Author(firstName: String, lastName: String)
  case class Book(isbn: String, author: Author)
  val b = Book("978-0486282114", Author("first", "last"))
  pprint2.pprintln(b)

it prints:

for code, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/57080463/1276782

for scala 2.11 currently I use plain java reflection to get all class fields & check if a field value exists inside case class (i.e. product.productIterator.toSet.contains(value) ) - yes slightly hacky, but simple and works well, at least in a non-prod environment for tests/info.