Scala dispatch GET request, fail to parse response to json

im writing a function that :

1) send HTTP GET request (response is a valid JSON)

2) parse the response to a json object

code snippet :

val page = url("http://graph.facebook.com/9098498615")
val response = Http(page OK dispatch.as.String)
Await.result(response , 10 seconds)
val myJson= JSON.parseFull(response .toString)
//this isnt helping -> val myJson= JSON.parseRaw(response .toString)

Problem is after this myJson is None while im expecting it to hold the json data from the response.

Help ?

It's not a good idea to use Http(page OK as.String) because all responses different from HTTP 200 will result in failed Futures. If you need more fine grained control over error handling/reporting, target specific scenarios instead.

import org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.{ HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpResponseStatus }
def getFacebookGraphData: Either[Exception, String] = {
  val page = url("http://graph.facebook.com/9098498615")
  val request = Http(page.GET);
  val response = Await.result(request, 10 seconds);
  (response.getStatusCode: @annotation.switch) match {
    case HttpResponseStatus.OK => {
      val body = response.getResponseBody() // dispatch adds this method
      // if it's not available, then:
      val body = new String(response.getContent.array);
      Right(body)
    }
    // If something went wrong, you now have an exception with a message.
    case _ => Left(new Exception(new String(response.getContent.array)));
  }
}

The default Scala JSON library is not a very good idea either, it's very rough compared to others. Try lift-json for instance.

import net.liftweb.json.{ JSONParser, MappingException, ParseException };

case class FacebookGraphResponse(name: String, id: String);// etc
implicit val formats = net.liftweb.DefaultFormats;
val graphResponse = JSONParser.parse(body).extract[FacebookGraphResponse];
// or the better thing, you can catch Mapping and ParseExceptions.