Grouping Play 2.0 views into packages/folders

Question

I'm trying to solve possibly simple problem, in my 'views' directory, in typical Play framework setup, I would like to group my templates (*.scala.html files) into groups, possibly using another folder for each group, eg. I would like to have customers folder with the following files in it:

• createForm.scala.html
• editForm.scala.html
• list.scala.html

So far so good but when I try to access that view reference from my controller (eg. Ok(views.html.list(..)) -> Ok(views.customers.html.list(...)), I get an error:

object customers is not a member of package views

Is there any best practice/receipe on how to work with multiple views, how to gather them into groups and then how to use them in other views or controllers.

Thx in advance.

Answer 1

The way the template engine works is that a template defined as:

/views/application/index.scala.html

Will be turned into a class:

views.html.application.index

So basically views.html is always kept as a prefix. Cf. the Play template documentation.

In your case that means it should be

Ok(views.html.customers.list(...))