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by TylerE 4625 days ago
It's a lot of ceremony for not a lot of convenience.

See: http://slick.typesafe.com/doc/1.0.1/lifted-embedding.html#in... and notice how much is involved in doing a simple insert into a table with a primary key.
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saryant 4625 days ago 

  Users.forInsert insert User(None, "Christopher", "Vogt")
Personally, I don't find that to be a lot of ceremony. Now, Slick definitely still has some problems and requires too much boilerplate, I'll certainly agree with that but I don't think this is one of those cases (though it could be improved).
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TylerE 4625 days ago
THe ceremony is creating the "for insert" facade. To me the logical thing to do would be for Slick to have an "AutoInc Int/Long" type that is implicitly convertable from Option, so that you could just do a normal insert and the the None value just causes the id column to be omitted.
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trailfox 4625 days ago
It also supports raw SQL...
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terhechte 4625 days ago
That goes beyond what it was created for. If you need sql to do anything useful, you can just as well not use a ORM.
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