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My Head Hurts
My Head Hurts

Reputation: 37665

Play Framework Configuration

I am developing a project using the Play framework. Yesterday, 'something' happened and my Play.Configuration object is null after initialisation. I have tried retracing my steps but I am unable to locate the change that I have made that has resulted in the error!

Although Google is usually my friend, I have not been able to find much information on this problem. Does anyone know where I can / should start looking to try to resolve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 957

Answers (1)

My Head Hurts
My Head Hurts

Reputation: 37665

Thanks to Morten Kjetland, who provided this answer on the play-framework google group, I have found the reason for the error was as follows:

It looks like you run the test directly in IntelliJ.

When you do it like this, Play it self is not running - nor is it initialized.

When running tests that use Play features like that you have to run them in play:

"play test" and goto http://localhost:9000/@tests

or "play auto-test"

-Morten

Embarrassingly I did know about @tests url, but I was a little naiive and thought that if I had the Play running then intelliJ would somehow magically find that instance of Play (not sure why I thought that) and conduct the tests accordingly.

Anyway - I hope my mistake will help someone else in the future - and thanks again to the helpful people on stack overflow and particularly the play-framework google group!

Upvotes: 4

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