build.sbt 中的 SBT := 运算符是什么?

What is the SBT := operator in build.sbt?

我是 Scala 和 SBT 的新手。我在一个开源项目的 build.sbt 中注意到一个陌生的运算符:

:=

这里有几个使用示例:

lazy val akkaApp = Project(id = "akka-app", base = file("akka-app"))
  .settings(description := "Common Akka application stack: metrics, tracing, logging, and more.")

它在这个较大的代码片段中使用了几次:

lazy val jobServer = Project(id = "job-server", base = file("job-server"))
  .settings(commonSettings)
  .settings(revolverSettings)
  .settings(assembly := null.asInstanceOf[File])
  .settings(
    description := "Spark as a Service: a RESTful job server for Apache Spark",
    libraryDependencies ++= sparkDeps ++ slickDeps ++ cassandraDeps ++ securityDeps ++ coreTestDeps,
    test in Test <<= (test in Test).dependsOn(packageBin in Compile in jobServerTestJar)
      .dependsOn(clean in Compile in jobServerTestJar)
      .dependsOn(buildPython in jobServerPython)
      .dependsOn(clean in Compile in jobServerPython),
    testOnly in Test <<= (testOnly in Test).dependsOn(packageBin in Compile in jobServerTestJar)
      .dependsOn(clean in Compile in jobServerTestJar)
      .dependsOn(buildPython in jobServerPython)
      .dependsOn(clean in Compile in jobServerPython),
    console in Compile <<= Defaults.consoleTask(fullClasspath in Compile, console in Compile),
    fullClasspath in Compile <<= (fullClasspath in Compile).map { classpath =>
      extraJarPaths ++ classpath
    },
    fork in Test := true
  )
  .settings(publishSettings)
  .dependsOn(akkaApp, jobServerApi)
  .disablePlugins(SbtScalariform)

我最好的猜测是它的意思是 "declare if not already declared"。

:=本质上与普通赋值运算符=无关。它不是内置的 Scala 运算符,而是一个名为 := 的 methods/macros 家族。这些方法(或宏)是 类 的成员,例如 SettingKey[T] (similarly for TaskKey[T] and InputKey[T]). They consume the right hand side of the key := value expression, and return instances of type Def.Setting[T](或类似地,Tasks),其中 T 是键表示的值的类型。它们通常以中缀表示法书写。如果没有语法糖,这些 methods/macros 的调用将如下所示:

key.:=(value)

构造的 Settings 和 Tasks 又是构建定义的基本构建块。

这里要理解的重要一点是,左侧的键不是代码块中的一些变量。左边的键不是仅仅表示函数调用的活动堆栈帧中的内存位置(就像一个简单的变量那样),而是相当复杂的对象,可以在构建过程中检查和传递。