While playing around with the Play! framework today, I stumbled upon the somewhat clunky JSON integration for reading the body of an HTTP request. The recommended approach of using type safe JSON and browsing the tree while creating your custom object or using a Format seems quite cumbersome for most standard situations that the standard libraries Jerkson and Jackson (included in Play!) handle gracefully. In this blog I will describe an approach that uses a custom BodyParser to come to a simpler solution.
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Play! framework
Lately I am doing a lot of coding with Play! 2.0 in my spare time and I must say it is a really nice framework that makes web application development easier. I am also trying to figure out if I can do all the stuff with a Play! 2.0 project like I can do with a Java EE project. An important aspect for me is adding the project in Jenkins. Since there is not a Jenkins plugin (yet) that supports Play! 2.0 does not mean that it is not possible!
Lately I am doing a lot of coding with Play! 2.0 in my spare time and I must say it is a really nice framework that makes web application development easier. I am also trying to figure out if I can do all the stuff with a Play! 2.0 project like I can do with a Java EE project. An important aspect for me is adding the project in Jenkins. Since there is not a Jenkins plugin (yet) that supports Play! 2.0 does not mean that it is not possible!