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jschnasse
jschnasse

Reputation: 9498

Playframework - How to create subpackages under app/views?

I'm using Play 2.4 (Java version) but I'm also interested in solutions for >2.4. This is my problem. I want to structure the content of my template folder under app/views. So I'd like to create some sub packages under app/views but get compilation errors. Here is, what I've tried so far:

  1. Create new subpackage via eclipse

    app/views/mediaViewers

  2. Put a template standardViewer.scala.html in it

    app/views/mediaViewers/standardViewer.scala.html

  3. Try to access the template from controller class via

    views.mediaViewers.html.standardViewer.render()

  4. Rebuild play project

    activator clean; activator clean-files; activator run

When calling the appropriate route I get:

[error] .../Viewers.java:18: package views.mediaViewers.html does not exist
[error] views.mediaViewers.html.standardViewer
[error] ..../Viewers.java:21: package views.mediaViewers.html does not exist
[error] views.mediaViewers.html.standardViewer
[error] .../app/controllers/Viewers.java:24: package views.mediaViewers.html does not exist
...

[error] (compile:compileIncremental) javac returned nonzero exit code
[error] application - 

! @765kicfe1 - Internal server error, for (GET) [/] ->

play.sbt.PlayExceptions$CompilationException: Compilation error[package views.mediaViewers.html does not exist]
...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 278

Answers (2)

Achraf Dawny jr.
Achraf Dawny jr.

Reputation: 186

In order to call a view template from the controller you should alwayes prefix the name of the view with "views.html", so the call to standardViewer.scala.html would be :

views.html.mediaViewers.standardViewer

you can verify this if you took a look at the generated files under target/scala-/twirl as indicated in this picture : project structure

Upvotes: 2

jschnasse
jschnasse

Reputation: 9498

The package path in the controller is wrong! Use this pattern:

`views.html.your-package-goes-here.your-template-goes-here.render()`

Or more concrete:

  1. Try to access the template from controller class via

views.mediaViewers.html.standardViewer.render()

Has to be:

views.html.mediaViewers.standardViewer.render()

Upvotes: 1

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