How to implement a partial function in a subclass

Question

Hi chaps, I'm trying to design a couple of classes that inherit a partial function, but I don't seem to be able to get the syntax quite right. My superclass looks like this:

abstract class Controller {

    val react:PartialFunction[Event,Unit]

}

And the subclass looks like:

class BoardRendererController(val renderer:BoardRenderer, val board:Board) extends Controller {

    override val react {
        case PieceMovedEvent(piece, origin, destination) => println("Moving now")
    }
}

But this fails to compile with this error

[ERROR] /workspace/pacman/src/main/scala/net/ceilingfish/pacman/BoardRendererController.scala:14: error: '=' expected but '{' found.
[INFO]  override val react {
[INFO]                            ^
[ERROR] /workspace/pacman/src/main/scala/net/ceilingfish/pacman/BoardRendererController.scala:17: error: illegal start of simple expression
[INFO] }
[INFO] ^

I've tried loads of variations on this, anyone know what the correct syntax is?

Answer 1

In addition to abhin4v's terse suggestion, you still have to supply a type annotation in the definition, so I recommend this addition to your base class:

type PFEU = PartialFunction[Event, Unit]

Then your subclass would look like this:

class BoardRendererController(val renderer:BoardRenderer, val board:Board)
extends Controller
{
    override val react: PFEU = {
        case PieceMovedEvent(piece, origin, destination) => println("Moving now")
    }
}