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Etienne
Etienne

Reputation: 45

Can't get the routes object in play framework to show my custom route

I'm attempting to do a reverse lookup on a route I've created. The route is defined as such in my routes file:

POST    /login            controllers.Web.Application.authenticate

However, when I try to do a reverse on it in a form I made, I can't seem to find it. I'm attempting to do a reverse like this:

@helper.form(action = routes.login())) {
    rest of the form here...
}

However, the login appears in red in intellij and when attempting to run the program, I get the following error:

play.sbt.PlayExceptions$CompilationException: Compilation error[value login is not a member of object controllers.routes]

I've attempted recompiling the project multiple times and looking around the docs, but it's just not working... Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 850

Answers (2)

Etienne
Etienne

Reputation: 45

So, an interesting thing happened recently and I found a way to point to the original structure properly. To do so, rather than writing:

routes.Web.Application.authenticate()

As Tyler suggested, I was supposed to write:

Web.routes.Application.authenticate()

Which is totally counter-intuitive and all, but that allows me to use the original package structure.

Upvotes: 3

Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 18187

Edit:

As we discovered in the comments, the reverse router doesn't seem to like sub packages. You should remove the Web part of your package, and move everything up a level, then change the code to be this:

@helper.form(action = routes.Application.authenticate())) {
    rest of the form here...
}

Original answer:

You need to refer to the controller function, and not the name of the route, so it should look something like this:

@helper.form(action = routes.Web.Application.authenticate())) {
    rest of the form here...
}

Upvotes: 1

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