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Learning Play! Framework 2

By : Andy Petrella
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Learning Play! Framework 2

By: Andy Petrella

Overview of this book

<p>The Learning Play! Framework 2 has been created for web developers that are building web applications. The core idea is to focus on the HTTP features and to enable them through a simplification lens. Building a web application no longer requires a configuration phase, an environment setup, or a long development lifecycle - it's integrated!<br /><br />Learning Play! Framework 2 will enable any web developers to create amazing web applications taking advantage of the coolest features. It's the fastest way to dive into Play!, focusing on the capabilities by using them in a sample application. Although essentially Java based code, a Scala version is presented as well – giving an opportunity to see some Scala in action.<br /><br />After setting up the machine and learning some Scala, you will construct an application which builds from static to dynamic, before introducing a database. <br /><br />Then we'll focus on how data can be consumed and rendered in several ways. This will enable some real time communication through WebSocket and Server-Sent Event – on both server and client sides.</p> <p>The book will end with testing and deployment, which completes any web development project.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Play! Framework 2
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Materials
Index

Creating a forum


In this section, we'll refactor our existing application in order to enable it to act as a forum. And, chances are high that it won't be necessary to learn anything new; we'll just re-use the skills gathered so far; but we'll also use the parsing commodities that Play! 2 offers us.

Reorganizing and logging in

The very first thing we have to do is to enable a user to log in; this ability was already created in the Data controller. However, for that, we'll update our Application controller a bit, to create a new index action that will check whether a user is logged in or not.

So, index is now the new entry point of the application and can be routed from / in the routes file. And, it's solely meant to check if a user has logged in or not. This check is based on the session content, as we simply check whether a user's e-mail is present in the session.

Note

We never see what a session can be in Play! 2, but we saw that Play! 2 is completely stateless. So, a session in Play! 2 is only...