I am using the playframework 2.3.8 and have a view-class. In there a is button:
<button class="btn btn-default" type="button" onclick="@routes.Application.sendMap(myMap)" method="POST">Send</button>
I want to append a question / answer pair to the map in my controller class (Application.java):
public static Result sendMap(Map<Question, List<Answer>> sendMap){
Question question4 = new Question("ertw", "SendMap Question?", 34, "Tim");
Answer answer41 = new Answer("werw", "ertw", "SendMap Answer 1!", 12, "Oliver");
Answer answer42 = new Answer("tzsdfu", "ertw", "SendMap Answer 2!", 1, "Marcus");
List<Answer> answerList4 = new ArrayList<Answer>();
answerList4.add(answer41);
answerList4.add(answer42);
sendMap.put(question4, answerList4);
return ok(views.html.frageAntwort.render(sendMap));
}
In my routes.conf I have added the route to the controller class and use Map
as the parameter:
POST /QuestionMap controllers.Application.sendMap(Map)
But now I get the error:
type mismatch;
found : String
required: java.util.Map[model.Question,java.util.List[model.Answer]]
Why does the map get converted into a string?
I've got it almost completely working now ... altough I dont completely understand how:
My button in the view-class, now without any parameter
<a href="@routes.Application.sendMap()"><button class="btn btn-default" type="button">Absenden</button>
My controller-class now correctly puts another fake question/answer pair into the map and then returns it with the changed map to the index.scala.html:
return ok(views.html.index.render(myMap));
The most important part happens in routes.conf:
GET / controllers.Application.index()
GET /Fragenliste controllers.Application.sendMap()
GET /FrageStellen controllers.Application.askQuestion()
GET /Einstellungen controllers.Application.showSettings()
GET /Quiz controllers.Application.startQuiz()
sendMap() now has no parameters and points to another site named /Fragenliste
.
And there is the part I dont fully understand - if I use
GET / controllers.Application.sendMap()
it points to the index()-method in Application.java. In there I have another method called initialize():
public static Result index() {
initialize();
(...)
}
public static void initialize() {
Question question1 = new Question("xyz", "Do Androids dream?", 127, "Marcus");
Answer answer11 = new Answer("zab", "xyz", "Only of electric sheep!", 70, "Tibor");
Answer answer12 = new Answer("qwert", "xyz", "No, they dont!", 10, "Sarah");
List<Answer> answerList1 = new ArrayList<Answer>();
answerList1.add(answer11);
answerList1.add(answer12);
myMap.clear();
myMap.put(question1, answerList1);
}
In this the map gets constructed, after I cleared potential rests of old maps. So my route points to the index and now the new question does not get added! Why cant I point to the index aswell and still have it work?
Basically:
mysite.com/ = index ... user presses button for new question, gets transfered to
mysite.com/enterQuestion ... user enters question and hits "submit", gets transfered to
mysite.com/ = index
My solution for the moment is:
mysite.com/ = index ... user presses button for new question, gets transfered to
mysite.com/enterQuestion ... user enters question and hits "submit", gets transfered to
mysite.com/ANOTHER_SITE != index, but looks and works exactly like the index!
Is there a way to do so? If yes, my problem would be fully solved.