I need to display a gallery of photos.
So here is my template:
@(photos: List[Photo])
@title = {
<bold>Gallery</bold>
}
@main(title,"photo"){
<ul class="thumbnails">
@for(photo <- photos) {
<li class="span3">
<a href="#" class="thumbnail">
<img src="@photo.path" alt="">
</a>
</li>
}
</ul>
}
And here is my controller method:
public static Result getPhotos() {
return ok(views.html.photo.gallery.render(Photo.get()));
}
And here is my Photo bean :
@Entity
public class Photo extends Model {
@Id
public Long id;
@Required
public String label;
public String path;
public Photo(String path, String label) {
this.path = path;
this.label = label;
}
private static Finder<Long, Photo> find = new Finder<Long, Photo>(
Long.class, Photo.class);
public static List<Photo> get() {
return find.all();
}
public static Photo get(Long id) {
return find.byId(id);
}
public static void create(Photo photo) {
photo.save();
}
public static void delete(Long id) {
find.ref(id).delete();
}
}
I put the photo absolute path in src attribute of img node, but doesn't work.
What is the best way to achieve this ?
PS: Image are located outside the play application.
Take a look at my very similar question: Direct serving files from outside of Play directories structure , finally I used my second suggestion in very basic sample it can be showed as:
public static Result serve(String filepath){
// some stuff if required
return ok(new File("/home/user/files/"+filepath));
}
route (use asterisk with *filepath
to allow strings with slashes inside):
GET /files/*filepath controllers.Application.serve(filepath : String)
view (lack of @
character before photo.path
is not accidental)
<img src="@routes.Application.serve(photo.path)" alt="@photo.alt" />
edit:
You of course don't need to serve files trough the controller if you have any HTTP server
and ability to create new subdomain/alias pointing to directory. In such case you can just store links as http://pics.domain.tld/holidays_2012/1.jpg
or even better as holidays_2012/1.jpg
(and then prefix it in the template with subdomain).
Finally you can set-up some alias ie. with Apache to use your domain.tld/*
as pointer to Play app and domain.tld/pics/*
as pointer to some folder
<VirtualHost *:80>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ServerName domain.tld
ProxyPass /pics !
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:9000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:9000/
Alias /pics/ /home/someuser/somefolder_with_pics/
<Directory /home/someuser/somefolder_with_pics/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
in such case it's important to place ProxyPass /pics !
before ProxyPass / http://...