Route to static file in Play! 2.0

Question

I\'m trying to make a route to a specific static file but everything I\'m trying ends with an error.

I\'ve made 3 different attempts:

1.

GET /fil         


        

Answer 1

Play java packages public folder in a jar file and this would be a problem if you would like to serve a static file that resolves to an absolute file location in the server. The right way to do is to have your own controller and use it to serve the static file.

For ex, to serve a file "mystatic.html" that is in the

    |-----
        |------mystatic.html

You would configure this route in your routes file.

GET /mystatic           mypackage.mycontrollers.Static.getFile(path="/myfolder/mystatic.html")

and your controller would be implemented as follows.

package mypackage.mycontroller;

import java.io.File;
import com.google.inject.Inject;
import com.google.inject.Provider;

import play.Application;
import play.mvc.Controller;
import play.mvc.Result;
import play.mvc.Results;

public class Static extends Controller {

    @Inject
    Provider app;

    public Result getFile(String path){
        File file = app.get().getFile(path);
        if(file.exists()){
            return ok(file);            
        }else{
            return Results.notFound();
        }
    }   
}