Scala for Data Science

Enriching JDBC statements with the "pimp my library" pattern

In the previous section, we saw how to create self-closing connections with the loan pattern. This allows us to open connections to the database without having to remember to close them. However, we still have to remember to close any ResultSet and PreparedStatement that we open:

// WARNING: Poor Scala code
SqlUtils.usingConnection("test") { connection =>
  val statement = connection.prepareStatement(
    "SELECT * FROM physicists")
  val results = statement.executeQuery
  // do something useful with the results
  results.close
  statement.close
}

Having to open and close the statement is somewhat ugly and error prone. This is another natural use case for the loan pattern. Ideally, we would like to ...