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Lahniep
Lahniep

Reputation: 729

play framework app authentication, user management

Following the Book App example in play 2 for scala, I now have a basic working app. What I want now is to add some features like

What is the best way to do it in play for scala? Should I manage it by my own? is there a plugin for that?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 5192

Answers (3)

tabdulradi
tabdulradi

Reputation: 7606

You have two options:

  1. Secure Social (http://securesocial.ws/)
    But it has unusual registration flow, where the user have to enter your email first, and receive link to registration form. However, there is a pull request that address this issue (https://github.com/jaliss/securesocial/pull/260)

  2. Play Authenticate
    It doesn't support Scala out of the box. But there is a workaround created by me here: https://github.com/joscha/play-authenticate/issues/92

Both of them requires you to write the interface layer to database. An important drawback in both of them, is that you won't be able to make use of reactive database drivers like Reactive Mongo. they assume that you will return the results immediately, not a Future of the result.

Upvotes: 3

akkie
akkie

Reputation: 2543

Note: I'm the maintainer of Silhouette.

I can suggest you Silhouette which is a core only fork of Secure Social with the intention to built a more customizable, non-blocking and well tested implementation.

For the first stable version there are only two open issues which must be resolved. And these issues are only future requests. There are no API changes planed. The documentation must be improved and a sample application is started. The unit tests are also a good starting point.

If you plan to follow the authentication flow as stated by Secure Social then stick with it. It exists since more than two years and it is well tested by many companies. Otherwise take a look at Silhouette.

Upvotes: 10

Mike G.
Mike G.

Reputation: 690

There is a securesocial plugin (http://securesocial.ws). Covers most common authentication methods, has registration stuff. I found it very usefull. The drawback is it's documentation. If you want to do something a bit differ from the simplest scenarios - be prepared to read through the source code.

Upvotes: 2

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