JavaScript bracket notation equivalent in Scala?

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JavaScript has bracket notation for objects that allows you to access properties using variables like so:

let x = {name : 'John', age: 21};
let y = 'age'
console.log(x[y])
//21

Is there an equivalent to this for accessing properties in class objects (get all variables in a class instance) in Scala 2?

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Since all case classes extend from Product I wonder if you can call its method productElement(1) for getting its value. I mean using the index of the desired field for getting its value.

case class MyClass(cat: String, dogNum: Int )

val myClass = MyClass("white cat", 2)

println(myClass.productElement(1)) // prints 2
println(myClass.productElement(0)) // prints white cat

also, using pattern matching:

myClass match {
  
 case MyClass(catField, dogNumField) => 
  println(catField)  // prints white cat
  println(dogNumField) //prints 2
  
}

as yet another way for achieving what might be looking for:

myClass.productIterator.foreach(member => println(member))

Update

"Since Scala 2.13 you can also retrieve the names of the attributes of a Product." – Gaël J

So you can write:

val productSize = myClass.productArity


for (elementNum <- 0 to productSize-1){
   
   println(myClass.productElementName(elementNum) + ": " + myClass.productElement(elementNum))

}

which prints:

cat: white cat
dogNum: 2
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