A Linearized version of Sequence

linearize.scala

import scala.concurrent._
import scala.collection.mutable.Builder
import scala.collection.generic.CanBuildFrom
import language.higherKinds

/**
 * Linearize asynchrnously applies a given function in-order to a sequence of values, producing a Future with the result of the function applications.
 * Execution of subsequent entries will be aborted if an exception is thrown in the application of the function.
 */
def linearize[T, U, C[T] <: Traversable[T]](s: C[T])(f: T => U)(implicit cbf: CanBuildFrom[C[T], U, C[U]], e: ExecutionContext): Future[C[U]] = {
  def next(i: Iterator[T], b: Builder[U, C[U]]): Future[C[U]] = if(!i.hasNext) Future successful b.result else Future { b += f(i.next()) } flatMap { b => next(i, b) }
  next(s.toIterator, cbf(s))
}

scala> linearize(1 to 100)(_.toString) foreach println

scala> Vector(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100)