Macaroni

Macaroni provides a collection of reusable utilities and helpers that could be useful in any project. It includes modules for meta-programming, parsing, resource pooling, cryptography, and filesystem operations.

Meta Programming

The meta package provides type-level programming utilities:

Type Helpers

The Types object provides type-level helpers for working with tuples and type intersections/unions:

// Intersection type with Any default
type IAnyType[T <: Tuple] = Tuple.Fold[T, Any, [x, y] =>> x & y]

// Intersection type with Nothing default
type INothingType[T <: Tuple] = Tuple.Fold[T, Nothing, [x, y] =>> x & y]

// Union type with Any default
type UAnyType[T <: Tuple] = Tuple.Fold[T, Any, [x, y] =>> x | y]

These are particularly useful when working with case class fields via mirrors to create intersection or union types of all fields.

Parser Combinators

The parsers package provides a parser combinator library, which powers the Friday JSON parser. The implementation is based on the approach described in Functional Programming in Scala (2nd Ed).

Key components:

• Parsers trait - Defines the core parsing primitives and combinators
• Reference implementation - A concrete implementation of the parser combinators
• Location - Tracks position in input for error reporting
• ParseError - Provides detailed error messages with line/column information

Example usage:

import dev.alteration.branch.macaroni.parsers.{Parsers, Reference}

// Create a simple parser
val parser = Reference.string("hello")

// Run the parser
parser.run("hello") // Right("hello")
parser.run("world") // Left(ParseError)

Resource Pool

The ResourcePool[R] trait provides a simple way to manage pools of reusable resources. Key features:

• Semaphore-based access control (default 5 concurrent resources)
• Lazy resource initialization (resources created on first use)
• Optional health checking
• Automatic resource cleanup

To implement a resource pool:

import dev.alteration.branch.macaroni.pool.ResourcePool

class DatabasePool extends ResourcePool[Connection] {
  def acquire: Connection = // Create new connection

  def release(conn: Connection): Unit = conn.close()

  // Optional: Override to add connection testing
  override def test(conn: Connection): Boolean =
    conn.isValid(5000)
}

Cryptography

The crypto package provides common cryptographic operations:

• Secure random key generation
• Base64 encoding/decoding
• PBKDF2 password hashing
• HMAC message authentication
• AES encryption/decryption

Example usage:

import dev.alteration.branch.macaroni.crypto.Crypto

// Generate random keys
val publicKey = Crypto.generatePublicKey(16) // 16-char key using limited ASCII range
val privateKey = Crypto.generatePrivateKey(32) // 32-char key using full ASCII range

// Password hashing with PBKDF2
val hash = Crypto.pbkdf2Hash("mypassword123")
val isValid = Crypto.validatePbkdf2Hash("mypassword123", hash) // true

// AES encryption/decryption
val message = "sensitive data"
val encrypted = Crypto.aesEncrypt(message, privateKey).get
val decrypted = Crypto.aesDecrypt(encrypted, privateKey).get // "sensitive data"

// HMAC authentication (SHA-256 and SHA-512)
val hmac256 = Crypto.hmac256("authenticate this", privateKey)
val isValid256 = Crypto.validateHmac256("authenticate this", privateKey, hmac256) // true

val hmac512 = Crypto.hmac512("authenticate this", privateKey)
val isValid512 = Crypto.validateHmac512("authenticate this", privateKey, hmac512) // true

// Base64 encoding/decoding
val encoded = Crypto.base64Encode("hello world")
val decoded = Crypto.base64Decode(encoded) // "hello world"

Runtime Utilities

The runtimes package provides execution contexts and executor services that use Java 21's virtual threads:

import dev.alteration.branch.macaroni.runtimes.BranchExecutors

// Get the global virtual thread executor
val executor = BranchExecutors.executorService

// Get the global execution context
val ec = BranchExecutors.executionContext