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I'm evaluating the possibility of using
with Scala to develop a service that will sit between a mobile client and existing web service. I'm looking for the simplest possible example of a piece of code where Play2-mini implements a server and a client. Ideally the client will use Akka2 actors.
With this question, I'm trying to find out how it is done, but also to see how Play2-Mini and Akka2 should co-operate. Since Play2-Mini appears to be the replacement for the Akka HTTP modules.
Play2-mini contains the following code example, in which I created two TODO's. If someone can help me with some sample code to get started, I will be really grateful.
package com.example
import com.typesafe.play.mini._
import play.api.mvc._
import play.api.mvc.Results._
object App extends Application {
def route = {
case GET(Path("/testservice")) & QueryString(qs) =& Action{ request=&
println(request.body)
//TODO Take parameter and content from the request them pass it to the back-end server
//TODO Receive a response from the back-end server and pass it back as a response
Ok(&h1&Server response: String {result}&/h1&).as("text/html")
7,933655126
Here's the implementation of your example.
Add the following imports:
import play.api.libs.ws.WS
import play.api.mvc.BodyParsers.parse
import scala.xml.XML
Add the following route:
case GET(Path("/testservice")) & QueryString(qs) =& Action{ request =&
val backendUrl = QueryString(qs,"target") map (_.get(0)) getOrElse("http://localhost:8080/api/token")
val tokenData = QueryString(qs,"data") map (_.get(0)) getOrElse("&auth&john&/auth&")
WS.url(backendUrl).post(XML loadString tokenData).map { response =&
Ok(&html&&h1&Posted to {backendUrl}&/h1&
&div&&p&&b&Request body:&/b&&/p&{tokenData}&/div&
&div&&p&&b&Response body:&/b&&/p&{response.body}&/div&
&/body&&/html&).as("text/html") }
All it does, is forwarding a GET request to a back-end serivce as a POST request. The back-end service is specified in the request parameter as target and the body for the POST request is specified in the request parameter as data (must be valid XML). As a bonus the request is handled asynchronously (hence Async). Once the response from the back-end service is received the front-end service responds with some basic HTML showing the back-end service response.
If you wanted to use request body, I would suggest adding the following POST route rather than GET (again, in this implementation body must be a valid XML):
case POST(Path("/testservice")) & QueryString(qs) =& Action(parse.tolerantXml){ request =&
val backendUrl = QueryString(qs,"target") map (_.get(0)) getOrElse("http://localhost:8080/api/token")
WS.url(backendUrl).post(request.body).map { response =&
Ok(&html&&h1&Posted to {backendUrl}&/h1&
&div&&p&&b&Request body:&/b&&/p&{request.body}&/div&
&div&&p&&b&Response body:&/b&&/p&{response.body}&/div&
&/body&&/html&).as("text/html") }
So as you can see, for your HTTP Gateway you can use Async and play.api.libs.ws.WS with Akka under the hood working to provide asynchronous handling (no explicit Actors required). Good luck with your Play2/Akka2 project.
Great answer by romusz
Another way to make a (blocking) HTTP GET request:
import play.api.libs.ws.WS.WSRequestHolder
import play.api.libs.ws.WS.url
import play.api.libs.concurrent.Promise
import play.api.libs.ws.Response
val wsRequestHolder: WSRequestHolder = url("")
val promiseResponse: Promise[Response] = wsRequestHolder.get()
val response = promiseResponse.await.get
println("HTTP status code: " + response.status)
println("HTTP body: " + response.body)
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