You do not have an implicit Application in scope: PlayFramework with Oracle

Question

Getting following error when trying to access oracle DataSource using play framework:

sbt.PlayExceptions$CompilationException: Compilation error[You do not have an implicit Application in scope. If you want to bring
the current running Application into context, just add import play.api.Play.current]

build.properties:

sbt.version=0.12.2
db.default.driver=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
db.default.url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@(.....basic))))"
db.default.user="username"
db.default.pass="passowrd"

Controller Application.scala is as follows:

package controllers

import play.api._
import play.api.mvc._
import play.api.db._


object Application extends Controller {

  val d = DB.getDataSource();

  def index = Action { request => Ok("something") } 

}

What is causing this issue. Everything looks correct to me.

FYI. play! 2.1.4 (using Java 1.6.0_24 and Scala 2.10.0)

-Thanks

Answer 1

The error message is actually telling you what to do: You do not have an implicit Application in scope. If you want to bring the current running Application into context, just add import play.api.Play.current.

import play.api.Play.current

This is what the getDataSource method look like:

  def getDataSource(name: String = "default")(implicit app: Application): DataSource = app.plugin[DBPlugin].map(_.api.getDataSource(name)).getOrElse(error)

As you can see it takes an implicit Application in the second argument list and the compiler is looking for an implicitly declared Application which can be found in the import.