Migration notes

This file described changes to be made while upgrading spata between incompatible versions.

Upgrading to 4.x from 3.x

spata has been transferred from FINGO to sovt organization, causing changes in package namespace and sbt coordinates. License and contribution information have been updated accordingly

sbt build file adjustment

Replace

libraryDependencies += "info.fingo" %% "spata" % "<version>"

with

libraryDependencies += "dev.sovt" %% "spata" % "<version>"

The latest version may be found on the badge in the readme file.

Import changes

All imports

import info.fingo.spata.Foo

have to be changed to

import dev.sovt.spata.Foo

License and Attribution Considerations

The license text remains unchanged, but attribution should reflect the new maintainers:

Copyright 2020–2025 FINGO sp. z o.o.
Copyright 2025 sovt contributors

Upgrading to 3.x from 2.x

spata 3 runs on Scala 3 and requires Cats Effect 3 and FS2 3.

This required a bunch of changes in the library and its API. First of all, spata 1 & 2 has made heavy use of shapeless and thus Scala 2 macros, which are not available for Scala 3. Required changes influenced the record conversion (for both, regular Record and TypedRecord) and schema definiition and validation. Second, Cats Effect 3 introduced breaking changes, which in turn made FS2 v3 incompatible with previous version. This required changes in the areas involving effect handling, concurrency and io.

spata 3 has been fully ported to Scala 3, adapting new constructs and braceless style. spata 2 is being maintained on seprate branch.

Record conversion

Record conversion has been completly rewritten from shapeless to tuples, with help of Mirror and inline. Although you may see many differences in type signatures and context parameters of conversion functions, no chages in calling code should be required.

The only exception is the to method, for which the parentheses have been removed, and

val element: Decoded[Element] = record.to[Element]()

has to be changed to

val element: Decoded[Element] = record.to[Element]

Schema and validation

Schema definition and validation in spata 2 has been build on shapeless. This has to be reworked completly for spata 3, using its new metaprogramming features. You may see many changes in the signatures of types used for schema definition, validation and data conversion, including TypedRecord signature, which is now parametrized by two types, for keys (field names) and values, instead of single type representing compund data. Most of them doesn't influence the user code and should work just after recompilation.

The only exception, similarly to regular Record, is conversion method to, for which the parentheses have been removed, and

val stockPrice: StockPrice = typedRecord.to[StockPrice]()

has to be changed to

val stockPrice: StockPrice = typedRecord.to[StockPrice]

IO

Blocker has been removed from Cats Effect 3 and you do not need (nor can) provide its instance for io operations. Thread pool assigment for blocking io is handled by runtime based on information provided by spata or FS2 io methods. For more information about new threading model for io and the ways to control this behavior see Cats Effect 3 migration guide.

This removal simplifies the Reader.Shifting and Writer.Shifting APIs - no blocker is provided as a parameter anymore. Instead of

Stream.resource(Blocker[IO]).flatMap { blocker =>
	Reader.shifting[IO](blocker).read(Path.of("path"))
	// ...
}

you should simply write

Reader.shifting[IO].read(Path.of("path"))
// ...

Taking advantage of simpliefied API for thread shifting, the shifting versions of Reader and Writer have been promoted to default ones. So, you can even further simplify above snippet:

Reader[IO].read(Path.of("path"))
// ...

As a consequence, Reader.plain and Writer.plain have to be called explicitly to get the simple, blocking IO. This may be important when using scala.io.Source, as in this case this modified default behaviour may negatively influnce performance.

Miscellaneous

• As a consequence of replacing implicit with given/using, if any implicit method argument is provided explicitly, it has to be preceded by using keyword.

Upgrading to 2.x from 1.x

spata 2 introduces rendering functionality. Some changes to API were required to keep parsing and rendering in pair with each other. Others were made to improve the API taking the opportunity of already broken compatibility.

Configuration

• Call parser[F] instead of get[F]() to create parser for given configuration.
• Omit parentheses in calls to noHeader and stripSpaces methods.

E.g. instead of

val parser = CSVConfig().noHeader().get[IO]()

write

val parser = CSVConfig().noHeader.parser[IO]

Parsing

• Omit parentheses while calling CSVParser.apply (e.g. CSVParser[IO]).

Reading data

• Replace io.reader object with io.Reader.
• Omit parentheses in calls to apply, plain, and shifting.

E.g. instead of

val stream = reader[IO]().read(Paths.get("source.csv"))

write

val stream = Reader[IO].read(Paths.get("source.csv"))

Miscellaneous

• Methods with arity-0 have been stripped of parentheses where feasible because they do not have side effects.
• Many classes and traits have been declared final or sealed.
• Reader trait has been moved from reader object into io package.