In the Play! documentation, several flavours of functional testing are mentioned, including starting a HTTP server for the duration of the test – this is very useful for testing web services. In code, this looks like import static play.test.Helpers.*; … Read more
Jorge Aliss has asked me (about 3 months ago, mea culpa) to write an example application that integrates the Deadbolt authorization module with his excellent SecureSocial module. The application is currently in development as I take a five minute break Read more
I just re-read my previous post and thought to myself…huh? What’s the point in telling people who’ll probably never even read the blog to make sure they cache in order to improve performance? The answer came to me in a Read more
I needed to add content to the war directory/file that play generates via the “play war” command. The content varied from files added to the top level of the war (alongside WEB-INF) to customising WEB-INF/web.xml. Checking the core documentation, no Read more
Template tags in the play! framework are a simple, powerful way to share functionality between different pages. They have all the groovy goodness of regular templates, and you can pass variables into them easily. But, as always, there’s always a Read more
Another day, another post about play!… When you extend from play.mvc.Controller, you have access to various render methods. One of these is renderBinary(), which allows you to send binary data (captchas, images, etc) to the browser. renderBinary() is overloaded, and Read more
If you have a couple of play! apps that have a common domain model, the easiest way to share that model is to put it into a module. play new-module my-shared-model generates an empty module in the current directory. Put Read more