Enum in Plain SQL when using Slick 3.1

Question

I'm using Slick 3.1.0 and Slick-pg 0.10.0. I have an enum as:

object UserProviders extends Enumeration {
  type Provider = Value
  val Google, Facebook = Value
}

Following the test case, it works fine with the column mapper simply adding the following implicit mapper into my customized driver.

implicit val userProviderMapper = createEnumJdbcType("UserProvider", UserProviders, quoteName = true)

However, when using plain SQL, I encountered the following compilation error:

could not find implicit value for parameter e: slick.jdbc.SetParameter[Option[models.UserProviders.Provider]]

I could not find any document about this. How can I write plain SQL with enum in slick? Thanks.

JimN JimN · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-20T02:54:01

You need to have an implicit of type SetParameter[T] in scope which tells slick how to set parameters from some custom type T that it doesn't already know about. For example:

  implicit val setInstant: SetParameter[Instant] = SetParameter { (instant, pp) => 
    pp.setTimestamp(new Timestamp(instant.toEpochMilli))
  }

The type of pp is PositionedParameters.

You might also come across the need to tell slick how to extract a query result into some custom type T that it doesn't already know about. For this, you need an implicit GetResult[T] in scope. For example:

  implicit def getInstant(implicit get: GetResult[Long]): GetResult[Instant] = 
    get andThen (Instant.ofEpochMilli(_))

Enum in Plain SQL when using Slick 3.1

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