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maiermic
maiermic

Reputation: 4984

call another action with other request body

I try to write an action that calls several other actions of other controllers. Those actions expect a JSON as request body:

JsonNode jsonNode = request().body().asJson();

How can I call another action with a specific request body (JSON)?

Restriction: I can not modify the other controllers.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 274

Answers (2)

Darkhan
Darkhan

Reputation: 93

I haven't tested this but I think this should do the trick. This version is for scala, I am not familiar with Play Java.

def actionJson: Action[JsValue] = Action(parse.json) { request =>
  Ok("json body")
}

def actionAny: Action[AnyContent] = Action.async { request =>
  actionJson(request.map(_.asJson)).run
}

Upvotes: 0

Ali Dehghani
Ali Dehghani

Reputation: 48213

I recommend to use the Reverse Routing feature of play, get a Call to the destination Action Method, convert it to a url and use the WSClient in order to send your request. In scala, say you're gonna send a POST request to an action method in Application controller named index:

val url = routes.Application.index().absoluteURL
wsClient.url(url).post[JsValue](json)

Same ideas apply to Java API but i'm not quite familiar with the details

Upvotes: 1

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