How do i use play ws library in normal sbt project instead of play?

Question

When i tried using Play WS library in a normal sbt project instead of play project I was bound to use play.api.Play.current and got java.lang.RuntimeException:

Answer 1

Usage in 2.4.x

import play.api.libs.ws.ning.NingWSClient   

val wsClient = NingWSClient()
wsClient.url("http://wwww.something.com").get()

build.sbt :

libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-ws" % "2.4.3"

Usage in 2.5.x

import play.api.libs.ws.ahc.AhcWSClient

implicit val actorSystem = ActorSystem()
implicit val materializer = ActorMaterializer()
wsClient.url("http://wwww.something.com").get()

//at the very end, to shutdown stuff cleanly :
wsClient.close()
actorSystem.terminate()

build.sbt :

libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-ws" % "2.5.4"

Logs

As someone noted in the comment, by default you might get a bunch of verbose logs coming from the underlying async-http-client. One way to fix it is to start configuring a logback.xml, and placing it in src/main/resources

    
        
        %d %coloredLevel %t - %logger - %message%n%xException