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Reputation: 3742

plain Scala Templates in Play 2.0

Since Intellij does not yet support the Play-Scala-Template-Engine I was thinking about using plain Scala for the time being, since having no code-completion, import help really slows my development down.

Is it possible to use plain Scala, not the @-ish wrapper, as a template-engine in Play 2.0? I guess that I could simply return ok(Htmp.apply("fooo")) from my (java) controllers and construct view-generating static methods in scala as my pseudo-templates, but I would like the overall structure of the project to similar to the "original".

To illustrate:

a normal template for my Meetings-Controller would be stored in

/app/views/Meetings/list.scala.html

and look something akin to this:

@(currentUser: User, meetings: Set[Meeting])

@main("Possible Meeting Dates") {
 @for(meeting <- meetings){
  "do fancy layout"
 }
}

I would want the whole thing to be stored under

/app/views/Meetings/list.scala

and contain something akin to this:

import play.api.templates._

def render(user: User, meetings:Set[Meeting]): Html = {
  Html("doing the layout here")
}

So my IDE gets that this is Scala and helps accordingly. Doing the latter whilst renaming the file to list.scala.html does not quite work: play compile causes some reference to be generated. I am able to call

views.html.Meetings.list.render()

like expected, but it does not take any parameters.

Do I need to adhere to a certain signature for the compiler-magic to work, or does this whole Idea simply not work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 515

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 671

I tried a very personal solutions. Reported (but not liked :-( ) here :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7731573/how-would-you-improve-this-scala-basic-xml-template

Hope that can of an help...

Upvotes: 1

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