Question

Must be a syntax issue on my part, but can’t quite pin it:

In my controller I have this defined:

request.format match {
      case "json" => Json(output)
      case "xml" => toXml(parse(output.toString))
      case _   => BadRequest
    }

And in my routes I have this defined:

# Map the API to the proper domain
GET     /{key}/{action}/{param}.{format}    API.{action}
POST    /{key}/{action}/{param}.{format}    API.{action}

I posted something like: /34523452345/job/today.json

So when I go to actually run the request, it takes {param} and includes the period. So the result for {param} is today.js and the {format} becomes on

The catch if I switch the period to a forward slash / it works just fine

What is the cause of the problem?

Answer 1

I believe you have to escape the dot as in \., as Play uses regexp in the routes files.