Play Framework PathBindable with Dependency Injection

Question

I'm migrating a Scala Play application to 2.5 and am currently moving my components to dependency injection. There's one place left where I'm at a loss how to do it though. I have a PathBindable implicit conversion defined in the companion object:

object Task {
  implicit def pathBindable(implicit stringBinder: PathBindable[String]) =
    new PathBindable[Task] {
       ...
    }
}

The implementation of the PathBindable needs to look up the object from a repository, but I haven't found a way to dependency-inject the repository here. As a workaround I'm using the now deprecated Play object:

val tasks = Play.application(Play.current).injector.instanceOf[TasksRepository]

Any ideas how to solve this properly?

Answer 1

According to Lightbend Engineer Greg Methvin, PathBindables should only depend on the state in the path. The reason is that the code runs on the IO thread and should therefore be fast and not block.