The Play 2.0 documentation doesn’t explain this very well. Body parsers are an acceptable solution, but I’ve found DynamicForm to be much more lightweight and user friendly. The documentation can be found here. In particular, the DynamicForm.bindFromRequest() is a good place to start if you are trying to replace the old Play 1.0 request.params.get().
The Play 2.0 Scala equivalent to this would be: Play.current.configuration.getString(“db.driver”) You will also need import play.api.Play The full docs for this are here.
In my opinion, the fact that templates are statically typed is actually a good thing: you’re guaranteed that calling your template will not fail if it compiles. However, it indeed adds some boilerplate on the calling sites. But you can reduce it (without losing static typing advantages). In Scala, I see two ways to achieve … Read more