= Play! Annotation Router = The router module allows you to embed your "routes" inside the controller. It provides a set of annotations to declare your "routes" next to your controller methods. ==<a>Issue tracker</a>== If you wish to report an issue, please use the [http://kenai.com/jira/browse/PLAY_ROUTER_MODULE issue tracker] == <a>Supported annotations </a> == The following annotations are supported at method level: * '''@Post''' * '''@Put''' * '''@Get''' * '''@Delete''' * '''@Head''' * '''@Any''' These annotations have the following attributes: * '''value''': the path to access your controller's method * '''priority''' (optional): the priority of the route (lower number is higher priority) * '''accept''' (optional) * '''format''' (optional) '''@Any''' matches all the above HTTP methods. Examples: <pre name="java"> @Get("/emails/{<.*>folderNames}/{messageId}") public static void email(@BindAs("/")String[] folderNames, int messageId) throws Exception { ... } </pre> <pre name="java"> @Post("/login") public static void authenticate(String username, String password) throws Exception { ... } </pre> The following annotations are supported at class level: * '''@ServeStatic''' * '''@StaticRoutes''' '''@ServeStatic''' indicates content that need to be served statically. It has the following attributes: * '''value''': The path to access the content * '''directory''': the directory you want to access inside the Play! application '''@StaticRoutes''' allows to define multiple '''@ServeStatic''' routes. Examples: <pre name="java"> @ServeStatic(value = "/public/", directory = "public") public class Application extends Controller { ... } </pre> <pre name="java"> @StaticRoutes({ @ServeStatic(value = "/public/", directory = "public"), @ServeStatic(value = "/images/", directory = "images") }) public class Application extends Controller { ... } </pre> :'''Be sure to empty the "routes" file to avoid any conflicting routes.''' == <a>Enable the router module for the application</a> == In the ''/conf/application.conf'' file, enable the router module by adding this line: <pre name="text"> # The router module module.router=${play.path}/modules/router </pre>