I am learning play framework and understand that I can map a request such as /manager/user
as:
GET /manage/:user Controllers.Application.some(user:String)
How would I map a request like /play/video?video_id=1sh1
?
I am learning play framework and understand that I can map a request such as /manager/user
as:
GET /manage/:user Controllers.Application.some(user:String)
How would I map a request like /play/video?video_id=1sh1
?
You have at least two possibilities, let's call them approach1
and approach2
.
0
is good candidate, as it will be easiest to build some condition on top of it. Also it's typesafe
, and pre-validates itself. I would recommend this solution at the beginning.String
so you need to parse it to integer and additionally validate if required.routes
:
GET /approach1 controllers.Application.approach1(video_id: Int ?=0)
GET /approach2 controllers.Application.approach2
actions:
public static Result approach1(int video_id) {
if (video_id == 0) return badRequest("Wrong video ID");
return ok("1: Display video no. " + video_id);
}
public static Result approach2() {
int video_id = 0;
if (form().bindFromRequest().get("video_id") != null) {
try {
video_id = Integer.parseInt(form().bindFromRequest().get("video_id"));
} catch (Exception e) {
Logger.error("int not parsed...");
}
}
if (video_id == 0) return badRequest("Wrong video ID");
return ok("2: Display video no. " + video_id);
}
PS: LOL I just realized that you want to use String identifier... anyway both approaches will be similar :)
I would do it simply using:
GET /play/video Controllers.Application.video(video_id:String)
And at controller you would of course have, something like:
public static Result video(String video_id) {
return ok("We got video id of: " + video_id);
}
Alternatively, you dont have to add video_id:String
since play seems to treat parameters as String by default, so it also works like this (at least with newest play):
GET /play/video Controllers.Application.video(video_id)
Typing localhost:9000/play/video?video_id=1sh1
to address bar should now you give view which prints:
We got video id of: 1sh1
To add more parameters is simple, like this:
GET /play/video controllers.Application.video(video_id:String, site:String, page:Integer)
Controller:
public static Result video(String video_id, String site, Integer page) {
return ok("We got video id of: " + video_id + " site: " + site + " page: " + page);
}
Typing localhost:9000/play/video?video_id=1as1&site=www.google.com&page=3
to address bar should now you give view which prints:
We got video id of: 1as1 site: www.google.com page: 3
You're welcome ^^.
I'm not quite sure if I got what you meant if you meant just to map a url to function in controller the answer of biesior is perfect but if you mean submitting a form with get method like
@helper.form(action = routes.YourController.page1()) {
}
and having the form's parameter in the url in the url-rewrited format like
page1/foo/bar instead of page1?param1=foo¶m2=bar
There is no way to do that because that's http specs
I do often circumvent this limitation by getting the parameters in the first function in controller and then redirect them to another view just like the following
public static Result page1(){
String param1 = Form.form().bindFromRequest().get("param1");
String param2= Form.form().bindFromRequest().get("param2");
return ( redirect( routes.YourController.page2(param1,param2)));
}
Then have whatever in the page2
public static Result page2(String param1,String param2){
...............
}
And have this in the routes file :
GET page2/:param1/:param2 controllers.YourControllers.page2(param1 : String, param2 : String )
I hope it'd help but I'm not sure that's the best practise
Ok so I just read up the documentation and what I understand is that you need to
GET /play/video Controllers.Application.video()
And then in the controller call the getQueryString of the HttpRequest object
http://www.playframework.com/documentation/api/2.1.0/java/index.html