Play Framework 2.1 - AngularJS routing - best solution?

Question

I am working my way through the AngularJS tutorial. Angular uses it\'s own JS routing mechanism to allow for single page apps. A sample routing file for Angular looks like t

Answer 1

For question #1 you could introduce a route like this:

/partials/:view    controllers.Application.showView(view:String)

Then in your controller you would need to map from view name to actual view:

Map("phone_index" -> views.html.partials.phone_index())

You might want to render the templates lazy or require the request to be present, then you should probably do something like this:

val routes = Map(
  "phone_index" -> { implicit r:RequestHeader => 
     views.html.partials.phone_index()) 
  }

Your action would look something like this:

def showView(view:String) = 
  Action { implicit r =>
    routes(view)
  }

If you want a specific controller method for a certain route (question #2) you simple add a route above the dynamic one:

/partials/specific    controllers.Application.specific()