RESTful on Play! framework

Question

We are planning a project primarily serving content to mobile apps, but need to have a website.

My question is whether is makes sense to use Jersey or Restlet to dev

Answer 1

This is still a popular question, but the highest voted answers are not up to date with the current version of play. Here's a working REST example with play 2.2.1:

conf/routes:

GET     /users                 controllers.UserController.getUsers
GET     /users/:id             controllers.UserController.getUser(id: Long)
POST    /users                 controllers.UserController.createUser
PUT     /users/:id             controllers.UserController.updateUser(id: Long)
DELETE  /users/:id             controllers.UserController.deleteUser(id: Long)

app/controllers/UserController.java:

public static Result getUsers()
{
    List users = Database.getUsers();
    return ok(Json.toJson(users));
}

public static Result getUser(Long id)
{
    User user = Database.getUser(id);
    return user == null ? notFound() : ok(Json.toJson(user));
}

public static Result createUser()
{
    User newUser = Json.fromJson(request().body().asJson(), User.class);
    User inserted = Database.addUser(newUser);
    return created(Json.toJson(inserted));
}

public static Result updateUser(Long id)
{
    User user = Json.fromJson(request().body().asJson(), User.class);
    User updated = Database.updateUser(id, user);
    return ok(Json.toJson(updated));
}

public static Result deleteUser(Long id)
{
    Database.deleteUser(id);
    return noContent(); // http://stackoverflow.com/a/2342589/1415732
}