“object index is not a member of package views.html” when opening scala play project in scala ide

Question

I\'ve created a play project with play 2.3.7

In the project directory, I ran activator and ran the eclipse command to generate eclipse project files.

Answer 1

1) Add the following line to your sbt.build file:

EclipseKeys.preTasks := Seq(compile in Compile)

2) Add the follwing line to your plugins.sbt file under the project folder:

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "5.1.0")

3) Run the "eclipse" command from within sbt

as explained in the documentation of the play framework:

Setting up your preferred IDE