Play Framework 2.0 Final released
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Play Framework 2.0 Final released
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Re: Play Framework 2.0 Final released
#2It's also now part of the Typesafe stack - here's the release announcement from the typesafe blog: http://blog.typesafe.com/introducing-play-20
Re: Play Framework 2.0 Final released
#3and a shiny new play framework site http://www.playframework.org/
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#4When I did a bit of Play 1.2 dev, I ran into two serious annoyances.
First, static actions make for untestable code. The only way to test this in 1.2 was to do full integration tests. You can't unit test controllers/actions, which to me is a horrible "opinion" to have. Looking at the docs, 2.0 [appears] to make an attempt via the callAction helper [1], but you still can't inject dependencies via a constructor and call instance methods. Static members in static languages make testing a real pain.
Second, JSON felt like a 2nd-class citizen. Dealing with JSON in either the request or the response felt barbaric. I don't see that they've improved things. Auto binding from a JSON request to an object should exist without having to write a bunch of custom JSON serializers...doubly so for outputting json.
[1] http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0/JavaFunctiona...
Re: Play Framework 2.0 Final released
#5and fucking crazy big doc https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki
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#6personal wish: this, with CRUD scaffolding and GAE support, will make Play my dream framework.
edit: this news announcement from Typesafe explains a bit more about Play 2.0: http://blog.typesafe.com/introducing-play-20
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#7When I did a bit of Play 1.2 dev, I ran into two serious annoyances. First, static actions make for untestable code. The only way to test this in 1.2 was to do full integration tests. You can't unit test controllers/actions, which to me is a horrible "opinion" to have. Looking at the docs, 2.0 [appears] to make an attempt via the callAction helper [1], but you still can't inject dependencies via a constructor and cal…
I can't agree more - I've been doing a non-trivial bit of scala work in the past six months, and the part that seems the most lacking to me is JSON support. Every scala JSON library I've used (spray-json, sbjson, lift-json and the like) requires you to define a concrete serializer class for every single type you would like to move across the wire. I really miss the ease of use of reflection-based parsers like Jackson. I've alleviated a bit of this by writing a generic serializer that uses Jackson under the hood, but that requires every class to use a java bean pattern, and not the more elegant scala case class (or frankly plain old scala object) patterns.
There's a project called Jerkson that is attempting to fix this, but I'd like to see all the major scala frameworks just settle on something good and simple and go from there.
Re: Play Framework 2.0 Final released
#8give Play 2.0 a try guys, it's a fresh new framework, more robust than ever, and with awesome concept for handling Input/Output.
Re: Play Framework 2.0 Final released
#9When I did a bit of Play 1.2 dev, I ran into two serious annoyances. First, static actions make for untestable code. The only way to test this in 1.2 was to do full integration tests. You can't unit test controllers/actions, which to me is a horrible "opinion" to have. Looking at the docs, 2.0 [appears] to make an attempt via the callAction helper [1], but you still can't inject dependencies via a constructor and cal…
I can't agree more - I've been doing a non-trivial bit of scala work in the past six months, and the part that seems the most lacking to me is JSON support. Every scala JSON library I've used (spray-json, sbjson, lift-json and the like) requires you to define a concrete serializer class for every single type you would like to move across the wire. I really miss the ease of use of reflection-based parsers like Jackson…
Jerkson works really well. Can convert JSON into case-classes really nicely and handles snake-types.
Re: Play Framework 2.0 Final released
#10When I did a bit of Play 1.2 dev, I ran into two serious annoyances. First, static actions make for untestable code. The only way to test this in 1.2 was to do full integration tests. You can't unit test controllers/actions, which to me is a horrible "opinion" to have. Looking at the docs, 2.0 [appears] to make an attempt via the callAction helper [1], but you still can't inject dependencies via a constructor and cal…
I can't agree more - I've been doing a non-trivial bit of scala work in the past six months, and the part that seems the most lacking to me is JSON support. Every scala JSON library I've used (spray-json, sbjson, lift-json and the like) requires you to define a concrete serializer class for every single type you would like to move across the wire. I really miss the ease of use of reflection-based parsers like Jackson…
You might want to check out lift-json again. It can easily serialize and deserialize case classes. https://github.com/lift/lift/tree/master/framework/lift-base...
Also, Play 2.0 includes Jerkson, so whatever Jerkson can do, Play 2.0 can do. They just happened to add some helper utilities that made it very similar to lift-json. So I think the community is settling on something good and simple.