Question

I want to have a Play 2.0 project depend on another Play 2.0 project and I want it to checkout and build that project when it builds.

I know how I could do this if the dependent project was not a PlayProject, but a standard library. I could use something like this.

val libDep = RootProject(uri("git://github.com/ChazInc/play2-authenticitytoken.git"))

val main = PlayProject(appName, appVersion, appDependencies, mainLang = SCALA).settings(
  // settings here
).dependsOn(libDep)

That won’t work for me with the play project since I need the special build logic I get for free from a PlayProject for the dependency. I see that PlayProject can take a file argument, but it doesn’t take a URI arguement like RootProject.

Answer 1

In order to use a git project directly, the project in question must have a project folder with Build.scala and/or plugins.sbt at the root level of the project. It sucks for Play modules, but that’s the way it currently is.