How to retrieve the value of header object in Scala

Question

I have some Scala code which retrieves the value from a variable in the http header.

println("header auth: ", request.headers.get(myParam))

This shows the following in the console

(header auth: ,Some(xxx_made_up_stuff_xxx))

What I actually need is the value inside Some() I have tried toString() but that did not change anything.

I am very very new to Scala, so apologies is this is very basic.

Answer 1

request.headers.get(myParam) returns on Option . To get the value inside you can use .getOrElse , .fold or the unsafe .get :

request.headers.get(myParam).getOrElse("No header for key myParam")

request.headers.get(myParam).fold("No header for key myParam")(identity)

request.headers.get(myParam) // can throw `java.util.NoSuchElementException`