CODEWITHSUNDEEP
scalaplayframeworkplayframework-2.0
Mojo
Mojo

Reputation: 1202

Cannot redirect to external url

I have a scala play microservice and I am trying to redirect to an external url. But I have problem because the redirect url is being appended to the domain of the service. My code is:

Redirect("www.google.com", 302)

But when I run my controller method in the browser it tries to redirect to this url

http://localhost:9000/www.google.com

and it complains telling me that there is no end point defined in the router with 

Action Not Found

GET /www.google.com

How can I make it redirect to just www.google.com?

UPDATE

I have managed to get it working as follows:

set a route as follows

GET  /google    controllers.Default.redirect(to = "http://google.com")

and in the controller I change the redirect to:

Redirect("google", 302)

I'm not sure what the pros and cons are of this solution. How is redirect to external URLs supposed to work in Play? Also this doesn't work for me as I don't want to code in the endpoints. For my use case, the redirect url is dynamic. It can be whatever the user supplies to my service.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 552

Answers (1)

Boris EKUE-HETTAH
Boris EKUE-HETTAH

Reputation: 157

This worked for me in Scala: 

package controllers

import play.api.mvc.{Action, Controller}

object essai extends Controller{
  def toGoogle() = Action {
    Redirect("http://google.com", 302)
  }

}

Upvotes: 2

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