Mastering Play Framework for Scala

Enumerator

Similar to the Iteratee, an Enumerator is also defined through a trait and backed by an object of the same name:

trait Enumerator[E] {
  parent =>
  def apply[A](i: Iteratee[E, A]): Future[Iteratee[E, A]]
  ...
}
object Enumerator{
def apply[E](in: E*): Enumerator[E] = in.length match {
    case 0 => Enumerator.empty
    case 1 => new Enumerator[E] {
      def apply[A](i: Iteratee[E, A]): Future[Iteratee[E, A]] = i.pureFoldNoEC {
        case Step.Cont(k) => k(Input.El(in.head))
        case _ => i
      }
    }
    case _ => new Enumerator[E] {
      def apply[A](i: Iteratee[E, A]): Future[Iteratee[E, A]] = enumerateSeq(in, i)
    }
  }
...
}

Observe that the apply method of the trait and its companion object are different. The apply method of the trait accepts Iteratee[E, A] and returns Future[Iteratee[E, ...