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Handling and serving JSON requests

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Handling a JSON request

A JSON request is an HTTP request using a valid JSON payload as request body. Its Content-Type header must specify the text/json or application/json MIME type.

By default an action uses an any content body parser, which you can use to retrieve the body as JSON (actually as a Jerkson JsonNode):

public static index sayHello() {
  JsonNode json = request().body().asJson();
  if(json == null) {
    return badRequest("Expecting Json data");
  } else {
    String name = json.findPath("name").getTextValue();
    if(name == null) {
      return badRequest("Missing parameter [name]");
    } else {
      return ok("Hello " + name);
    }
  }
}

Of course it’s way better (and simpler) to specify our own BodyParser to ask Play to parse the content body directly as JSON:

@BodyParser.Of(Json.class)
public static index sayHello() {
  String name = json.findPath("name").getTextValue();
  if(name == null) {
    return badRequest("Missing parameter [name]");
  } else {
    return ok("Hello " + name);
  }
}

Note: This way, a 400 HTTP response will be automatically returned for non JSON requests.

You can test it with cURL from a command line:

curl 
  --header "Content-type: application/json" 
  --request POST 
  --data '{"name": "Guillaume"}' 
  http://localhost:9000/sayHello

It replies with:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 15

Hello Guillaume

Serving a JSON response

In our previous example we handled a JSON request, but replied with a text/plain response. Let’s change that to send back a valid JSON HTTP response:

@BodyParser.Of(Json.class)
public static index sayHello() {
  ObjectNode result = Json.newObject();
  String name = json.findPath("name").getTextValue();
  if(name == null) {
    result.put("status", "KO");
    result.put("message", "Missing parameter [name]");
    return badRequest(result);
  } else {
    result.put("status", "OK");
    result.put("message", "Hello " + name);
    return ok(result);
  }
}

Now it replies with:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 43

{"status":"OK","message":"Hello Guillaume"}

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