Partial Function application for JDBC Connections in Scala

gistfile1.scala

def withConnection[T](ds: ComboPooledDataSource, fn : Connection => T) : T = {

    var optConn : Option[Connection] = Option.empty;
    try {
      val conn = ds.getConnection
      optConn = Some(conn);

      fn(conn)

    } finally {
      if (!optConn.isEmpty) {
        optConn.get.close
      }
    }
}

withConnection(ds, myFunction("some param"))