Question

I’m doing some tests with a playframework2 app and I have noticed that if I do not put
my objects in the models folder I’m not allowed to use them in my view.

e.g Let say I put a class SimpleObject in a package name simple.

SimpleObject.class:

public class SimpleObject {

    public SimpleObject(){}

    public SimpleObject(String name){
        this.name = name;
    }

    private String name;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

In my Application controller
i render the view with a new SimpleObject:

public static Result doSomeAction() {
    SimpleObject simpleObject = new SimpleObject("test");       
    return ok(test.render(simpleObject));
}

In my test.scala.html:

@(simpleObject: SimpleObject)
@main("Here is the result:") {
    @{simpleObject.getName()}
}

This results in an error:

not found: type SimpleObject

If I move SimpleObject to the package models it compiles and works.

In my other application I have implemented the Elasticsearch module. There I receive
an IndexResult that I want to loop over in my view. I get the same error as with the SimpleObject.

So my questions here is sort of architectural. Whats the “play 2 way” of handling this?
Should I implement a view object and a builder, throw the IndexResult object in and create
a view object?
Or is there a way of telling my app to scan other packages too?
Maybe there is some other way of thinking?

Answer 1

You could try using an import in the view, ie:

@import simple._

Or you could try organizing your models/classes in sub-folders/packages of models.