Lift Application Development Cookbook

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

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Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

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Overview of this book

Developing secure web applications is one of the most important tasks developers have to deal with. With Lift, it is easy to create solid and formidable web applications as it is the most secure web framework available today. The View-First approach and being able to handle things as purely data transformation, makes working with Lift an exciting task. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications. "Lift Application Development Cookbook" takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other. You'll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You'll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook. By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.

Lift Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Lift Basics

Introduction

Creating a Lift application using SBT

Creating a Lift application using Maven

Defining a SiteMap

Logging using logback

Sending e-mails using Gmail's SMTP server

Working with HTML

Introduction

Transforming HTML elements using their IDs

Creating an HTML list using CSS selectors

Creating an HTML table with dynamically defined columns

Nesting snippets

Dynamic menu rendering

Localizing templates

Testing snippets using Specs2

Creating custom error pages

Sending JavaScript commands from the server

Invoking server-side functions from the client

Working with Forms

Introduction

Creating forms

Validating forms

Creating an Ajax form

Creating multipage forms

Defining a relation between form fields

Working with REST

Introduction

Getting data from the server

Creating data using the REST service

Modifying data using the REST service

Deleting data using the REST service

Testing a REST service using Specs2

Uploading a file using the REST service

Creating an RSS feed

Working with Databases

Introduction

Configuring a connection to database

Mapping a table to a Scala class

Creating one-to-many relationships

Creating many-to-many relationships

Creating CRUD features with CRUDify

Paginating result sets

Using an in-memory database in application tests

Working with Record

Introduction

Configuring a connection to a database using Squeryl

Mapping a table to a Scala class

Migrating the database using Liquibase

Creating one-to-many relationships

Creating many-to-many relationships

Paginating result sets using Record

Testing your application using an in-memory database

Working with MongoDB

Introduction

Connecting to MongoDB using record

Mapping a MongoDB collection to a Scala class

Mapping embedded objects

Mapping referenced objects

Querying with Rogue

Integrating Lift with Social Media

Introduction

Signing up using a Facebook account

Fetching a user's Facebook data

Signing up using a Gmail account

Fetching a user's Gmail data

Signing up using a LinkedIn account

Fetching a user's LinkedIn data

Signing up using a Twitter account

Fetching a user's Twitter data

Index

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Mapping a table to a Scala class

Now that we know how to connect Lift applications to the database, the next step is to learn how to create mappings between a database table and a Scala object using Mapper.

Getting ready

We will re-use the project we created in the previous recipe since it already has the connection configured.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to map a table into a Scala object using Mapper:

Create a new file named Contact.scala inside the model package under src/main/scala/code/ with the following code:

package code.model

import net.liftweb.mapper.{MappedString, LongKeyedMetaMapper, LongKeyedMapper, IdPK}

class Contact extends LongKeyedMapper[Contact] with IdPK {
  def getSingleton = Contact

  object name extends MappedString(this, 100)
}

object Contact extends Contact with LongKeyedMetaMapper[Contact] {
  override def dbTableName = "contacts"
}

Add the following import statement in the Boot.scala file:
```
import code.model.Contact
```
Add the following code into the boot...

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By : Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

Lift Application Development Cookbook

By: Gilberto Tadeu Garcia Jun

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