Play Framework Essentials

URL routing

The routing component is the first piece of the framework that we will look at:

URL routing

The preceding diagram depicts its process. It takes an HTTP request and calls the corresponding entry point of the application. The mapping between requests and entry points is defined by routes in the conf/routes file. The routes file provided by the application template is as follows:

# Routes # This file defines all application routes (Higher priority routes first) # ~~~~ # Home page GET / controllers.Application.index # Map static resources from the /public folder to the /assets URL path GET /assets/*file controllers.Assets.versioned(path="/public", ...