Question

I have a JSON template under app/views/Application/movie.json in my Play Framework app.

Normally you use render() to access this template, but that requires an request to server. How can I use this template server side and get the JSON output, without doing another request? Is there something like JsonArray movies = Templates.render("movie.json")?

Answer 1

Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>();
// prepare your template arguments
String s = TemplateLoader.load("Application/movie.json").render(params);
// the string s is the rendered output, you can do further processing 
// to convert it into JSON object