Accessing the application.conf properties from java class with Play! 2.0

Question

I want to add an object to the Global scope, and in order to construct it I need to pass it a path to a file. I don\'t want to hard code the file path in the source, and so

Answer 1

Try Play.application().configuration().getString("your.key")

As noted in the comment (nico_ekito), please use play.Play and not play.api.Play. play.api.Play is for scala controllers (see comment by Marcus biesior Biesioroff)

Additionally, play uses https://github.com/typesafehub/config under the hood so it can also provide some insights.