I'm still new to RESTful APIs and JSON, so I tried looking at the documentation for jQuery and Play for sending JSON to a URI and parsing JSON from a request body.
Unfortunately, I'm getting some unexpected behavior.
Here is my AJAX call:
$.ajax({
url: "@routes.Application.downloadResults",
data: {
uuid: $('body').attr('uuid')
},
dataType: 'json',
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
success: function(res) {
console.log('success')
},
error: function(res) {
console.log('error')
}
})
Here is my server code:
def downloadResults = Action { request =>
Logger.info("Attempting to download")
Logger.info(request.toString)
Logger.info(request.body.toString)
Logger.info(request.body.asJson.toString)
request.body.asJson.map { json =>
{
Logger.info(json.toString)
json.validate[String].map {
case uuid => {
Logger.info(s"Looking for results-$uuid.txt")
Ok.sendFile(new File(s"results-$uuid.txt"))
}
}.recoverTotal {
e =>
{
Logger.info("Detected error: " + JsError.toFlatJson(e))
BadRequest("Detected error: " + JsError.toFlatJson(e))
}
}
}
}.getOrElse {
Logger.info("Expecting Json data")
BadRequest("Expecting Json data")
}
}
Here is the resulting server log:
[info] application - Attempting to download
[info] application - GET /download?uuid=12512502-5ca4-47bc-a4db-15f1da1979fc
[info] application - AnyContentAsEmpty
[info] application - None
[info] application - Expecting Json data
Here is the resulting browser console:
GET http://localhost:9000/download?uuid=12512502-5ca4-47bc-a4db-15f1da1979fc 400 (Bad Request) jquery-1.9.0.min.js:3
error
It looks like the uuid
is being attached to the URI as a parameter, but I was trying to send it as JSON. I guess it doesn't really matter which way it gets there right now, but I'm trying to sharpen up my understanding of using JSON for client-server communication. I tried calling Json.stringify
on the JSON data, but that just resulted in GET /download?{%22uuid%22:%224de4c3dd-24db-49dc-8f9e-4d3e0d90dea5%22}
in my server log.
Any tips on how to make this work?