So in Play 2.0 I had this: GET /tasks/add controllers.Tasks.addTask(parentId: Option[Long] = None) GET /tasks/:parentId/add controllers.Tasks.addTask(parentId: Option[Long]) With a controller me...

I'd like my Play app to use different databases for test, local and production (production is Heroku) environments. In application.conf I have: db.default.driver=org.postgresql.Driver %dev.db....

Does the Play Framework have a Native or Recommended way of converting Play models into XML/JSON? Something similar to JAXB or Jackson. Some people recommend the template approach but this is very...

I am trying to incorporate google analytics graph at web app to show user statistics of their app usages. This is the local url http://192.168.100.10:9000/ i login to dashboard (web app) i have a g...

On Play Framework's homepage they claim that "JSON is a first class citizen". I have yet to see the proof of that. In my project I'm dealing with some pretty complex JSON structures. This is just...

So I have successfully gotten AJAX requests to work before but I have always had to use a form, and then at the end of the submit do return false so that it doesn't refresh the page. I have also ju...

I am developing an application with Play 2.0 and Scala that exposes some REST API. These APIs will be used by different applications, web, mobile or desktop, so the OAuth protocol (OAuth2) seems th...

What's the problem with this "routes" that are not found in IntelliJ IDEA 14?

I know scala, as a funcional language, is supposed to work differently from a common OO language, such as Java, but I'm sure there has to be a way to wrap a group of database changes in a single tr...

I want to convert a .conf-file directly to json so I can pass it to frontend. Is there a way to do that in scala/play? It seems to be incredibly cumbersome with the path I'm taking now: val conf: ...

I am just trying to follow along with the ZenTasks tutorial (http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.0/JavaGuide4) for the Play Framework. I can't seem to even get the Login page to work how...

I'm createing a Play 2.1 app, in which I have decided to use Slick for database interaction. However I can't find documentation about how to configure/enable logging for Slick. Anyone knows this?

I am making a custom field constructor in Play 2: @(elements : helper.FieldElements) <div class="@if(elements.hasErrors) {error}"> <label for="@elements.id">@elements.label</label...

I have an actor which receives JsValue from a websocket in play 2.3. I also have a case class that defines a Reads converter. When I try to pattern match against the case class it always matches ag...

Trying to see exactly what source files are being compiled during full & incremental builds. As it stands I see a summary a la "X number of Scala and Y number of Java files" being compiled, wh...

I'm relatively new to Play Framework. The current project I'm working on has tons of Promises returned by the service layer components all the way down to controllers. I wonder if that's the best p...

I have a Play Framework 2.0 application that I want to deploy (production) on Windows Server 2008 R2. How do I get it to run as a service?

I'm using the async Play WS Scala API to query a RESTful service. I wonder how I could process a List containing request URLs to be called via WSClient, but not more than one request per second (th...

I am calling a webservice like this: WS .url(url) .get .map { response => // error occurs on this line response.status match { case 200 => Right(response.json) case status => Left(s...

I am working on a Scala + Play application utilizing websockets. I have a simple web socket defined as such: def indexWS = WebSocket.using[String] { request => val out = Enumerator("Hello!") v...

Consider the following class: class MyClass @Inject() (ws: WSClient)(implicit executionContext: ExecutionContext) and the code that gets this class: app.injector.instanceOf[MyClass] From what...

What we do : We run Play2 application on Cloudbees and we load a file from '/conf' directory (inside the classpath of the application). These 2 snippets work in local and at heroku Play.applica...

I have two JsValue created from case class, i.e. Book and Book detail val bookJson = Json.tojson(Book) val bookDetailJson = Json.tojson(BookDetail) and the format would be: //Book { id: 1, na...

I have a simple question regarding rendering JSON object from a Scala class. Why do I have to implemet deserializer ( read, write ). I have the following case class: case class User(firstname:St...

I am trying to use Play 2.5 dependency injection. I have following class which makes a call to REST api and parses the response class Client @Inject()(ws:WSClient, baseUrl: string) { def this(ws...