Scala Play Framework getting user's ip address

Question

I have seen this asked before, but I haven't been able to use those answers to get the IP address of the user.

in PHP it would be this:

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

Answer 1

If you need to access this information within an action:

Action { request =>
    val address = request.remoteAddress;
    ...
}

If you need the access somewhere else, note that you can use implicit:

Action { implicit request => ... }
myMethod(implicit request: Request) { ... }

And you can always fall back to just passing the request around.