scala: How to pass an expanded list as varargs into a method?

Question

When creating a Map in scala, I call Map(entities.map{e => e.id -> e}), and I get:

found   : scala.collection.mutable.IndexedSeq[(Int, Entity)]
required: (Int, Entity)

This is because the signature for Map.apply is: def apply[A, B](elems: (A, B)*): CC[A, B], which requires a varargs style argument.

Is there a way to convert the IndexedSeq so that it can be accepted via Map.apply?

Answer 1

Try this: Map(entities.map{e => e.id -> e}:_*)

Explicitly typing it as a varargs using :_* seems to work.

Answer 2

Or this should work too:

entities.map{e => e.id -> e} toMap