Question

So I am updating a Play 1.2.x application with has the following setup

- controllers
    - api 
        - Documents // create, update, read, delete, list
        ... // more controllers
    - web
        - Documents // list, read, etc...
        .. // more controllers

The controllers in the api package render data as Json which is used by mobile clients (Android, iPhone).

Now I want to have a plain simple html web app consuming the api. So how can I consume the API from the controllers in the web package?

My goal is to avoid rewriting the api controllers logic in the web controllers logic.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Reusing methods between controllers is not the best practice in my opinion. Shared behavior should be coded in the model and both controllers can then use the same model methods.

Nevertherless if you want to do so, you can extract shared behavior in a public method in your apis controllers wich you can annotate as “@Util” and then call this method from your web controller.