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Play Framework essentials

Play Framework essentials

By : Julien Richard-Foy
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Play Framework essentials

Play Framework essentials

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By: Julien Richard-Foy
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Overview of this book

This book targets Java and Scala developers who already have some experience in web development and who want to master Play framework quickly and efficiently. This book assumes you have a good level of knowledge and understanding of efficient Java and Scala code.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Building a Web Service
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1. Building a Web Service
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Play – a framework used to write web applications
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Bootstrapping a Play application
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URL routing
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Building HTTP responses
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Reading JSON requests
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Summary
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2. Persisting Data and Testing
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2. Persisting Data and Testing
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Testing your web service
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Persisting data
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Using an in-memory database for tests
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3. Turning a Web Service into a Web Application
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3. Turning a Web Service into a Web Application
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Delta between a web service and a web application
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Using the template engine to build web pages
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Generating HTML forms
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Reading and validating HTML form data
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Handling content negotiation
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Putting things together
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Writing web user interface tests
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4. Integrating with Client-side Technologies
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4. Integrating with Client-side Technologies
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Philosophy of Play regarding client-side technologies
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Serving static assets
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Using the JavaScript reverse router
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Managing assets from the build system
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5. Reactively Handling Long-running Requests
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5. Reactively Handling Long-running Requests
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Play application's execution model
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Scaling up your server
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Embracing non-blocking APIs
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Managing execution contexts
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Writing incremental computations using iteratees
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Streaming results using enumerators
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Manipulating data streams by combining iteratees, enumerators, and enumeratees
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Controlling the data flow
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6. Leveraging the Play Stack – Security, Internationalization, Cache, and the HTTP Client
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6. Leveraging the Play Stack – Security, Internationalization, Cache, and the HTTP Client
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Handling security concerns
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Saving computation time using cache
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Serving content in several languages
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Calling remote web services
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7. Scaling Your Codebase and Deploying Your Application
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7. Scaling Your Codebase and Deploying Your Application
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Making an action's logic reusable and composable with action builders
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Modularizing your code
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Application deployment
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Saving computation time using cache

Using a cache can help you to avoid computing things several times. Web applications support two kinds of caches: server-side and client-side caches. The latter can save HTTP round trips. In both cases, dealing with expiration can be a complex task!

Play provides a minimal cache library and some controller level caching features that can help you leverage both client-side and server-side caches. The implementation uses EhCache under the hood and, by default, caches things in memory only. You'll find more about EhCache at http://ehcache.org/.

To use it, you first need to add it to your build dependencies:

libraryDependencies += cache

The cache basically works as a key-value store. You can store values for a given duration and retrieve them using a key. Let's use it in the Application.index action that just displays a static HTML page:

import play.api.cache.Cache
val index = Action {
  Ok(Cache.getOrElse("main-html")(views.html.main()))
}

The getOrElse method...

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