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Adapt the guide to Cats version 1.0.1
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PawelLipski committed Apr 7, 2018
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it's very likely that Cats can simplify and improve the readability of your code.

Please refer to the [Cats wiki on GitHub](https://github.com/typelevel/cats) for guidelines on how to add the library to your project dependencies.
We are sticking to [version 0.9.0](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/releases/tag/v0.9.0) in the entire post.
We are sticking to [version 1.0.1](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/releases/tag/v1.0.1) in the entire post.

Let's go through the library package-wise, looking at the syntax available in each package.

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Otherwise it becomes `Left` with the provided `ifNone` value inside.


# `instances` packages and `cartesian` syntax

# `instances` packages and `apply` syntax

## `import cats.instances.<F>._`

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This is not a preferred solution, though, as it can significantly increase compile times — especially if used in many files across the project.
It is generally considered good practice to use narrow imports to take some of the implicit resolution burden off the compiler.

## `import cats.syntax.cartesian._`
## `import cats.syntax.apply._`

The `cartesian` package provides `|@|` syntax, which allows for an intuitive construct for applying a function that takes more than one parameter to multiple effectful values (like futures).
The `apply` package provides `(..., ..., ...).mapN` syntax, which allows for an intuitive construct for applying a function that takes more than one parameter to multiple effectful values (like futures).

Let's say we have 3 futures, one of type `Int`, one of type `String`, one of type `User` and a method accepting three parameters — `Int`, `String` and `User`.

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```

Our goal is to apply the function to the values computed by those 3 futures.
With `cartesian` syntax this becomes very easy and concise:
With `apply` syntax this becomes very easy and concise:

```scala
import cats.instances.future._
import cats.syntax.cartesian._
import cats.syntax.apply._

(intFuture |@| stringFuture |@| userFuture).map {
(intFuture, stringFuture, userFuture).mapN {
(value, contents, user) =>
process(value, contents, user)
}
```

As pointed out before, to provide the implicit instance (namely, [`Cartesian[Future]`](http://typelevel.org/cats/api/cats/Cartesian.html)) required for `|@|` to work properly,
As pointed out before, to provide the implicit instances (namely, [`Functor[Future]`](http://typelevel.org/cats/api/cats/Functor.html) and
[`Semigroupal[Future]`](https://typelevel.org/cats/api/cats/Semigroupal.html)) required for `mapN` to work properly,
you should import `cats.instances.future._`.

This above idea can be expressed even shorter, just:

```scala
(intFuture |@| stringFuture |@| userFuture).map(process)
(intFuture, stringFuture, userFuture).mapN(process)
```

The result of the above expression will be of type `Future[ProcessingResult]`.
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In the above snippet (which under the hood translates to `flatMap` and `map` calls), `stringFuture` will not run until `intFuture` is successfully completed,
and in the same way `userFuture` will be run only after `stringFuture` completes.
But since the computations are independent of one another, it's perfectly viable to run them in parallel with `|@|` instead.
But since the computations are independent of one another, it's perfectly viable to run them in parallel with `mapN` instead.



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| :---: | :---: | :---: |
| `EitherT.apply` or `EitherT(...)` | `F[Either[A, B]]` | `EitherT[F, A, B]` |
| `EitherT.fromEither` | `Either[A, B]` | `EitherT[F, A, B]` (wraps the provided `Either` value into `F`) |
| `EitherT.right` or `EitherT.liftT` | `F[B]` | `EitherT[F, A, B]` (wraps value inside `F[B]` into `Right`) |
| `EitherT.right` or `EitherT.liftF` | `F[B]` | `EitherT[F, A, B]` (wraps value inside `F[B]` into `Right`) |
| `EitherT.left` | `F[A]` | `EitherT[F, A, B]` (wraps value inside `F[B]` into `Left`) |
| `EitherT.pure` | `A` | `EitherT[F, A, B]` (wraps value inside `Right` and then into `F`) |

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user <- ensureUserExists(userId)
item <- ensureItemExists(itemId)
_ <- ensureItemStateIs(item.state, AVAILABLE_IN_STOCK)
// EitherT.liftT is necessary to make EitherT[Future, BaseException, ItemOrder] out of Future[ItemOrder]
placedOrder <- EitherT.liftT(placeOrderForItem(userId, itemId, count))
// EitherT.liftF is necessary to make EitherT[Future, BaseException, ItemOrder] out of Future[ItemOrder]
placedOrder <- EitherT.liftF(placeOrderForItem(userId, itemId, count))
} yield placedOrder
}
```
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If you're using `Futures`, make sure to provide an implicit `ExecutionContext` in the scope, otherwise Cats won't be able to infer implicit instances for `Future`'s type classes.

The compiler might quite often have problems with inferring type parameters for `traverse` and `sequence` methods.
An obvious workaround is to specify those types directly, like `list.traverse[Future, Unit](fun)`.
This might become quite verbose in certain cases, though, and the better way is to try the equivalent methods `traverseU` and `sequenceU`, like `list.traverseU(fun)`.
They do some type-level trickery (with [`cats.Unapply`](http://typelevel.org/cats/api/cats/Unapply.html), hence the `U`) to help the compiler infer the type parameters.

IntelliJ sometimes reports errors in Cats-loaded code even though the source passes under scalac.
One such example are invocations of the methods of `cats.data.Nested` class, which compile correctly under scalac, but don't type check under IntelliJ's presentation compiler.
It should work without trouble under [Scala IDE](http://scala-ide.org/), though.
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