You can see the live version here
The purpose of ShoppingCart is 1) a final project for CS 232 and 2) to learn how to build a web application in java. This app is built on the Play! framework. In the code you will find examples of :
- Using a jdbc adapter to access a database (H2 in development, MySQL in production)
- Skeletal views built in HTML with some Scala thrown in
- Coffeescript functions that use jQuery to tie in the interface with the backend (Ajax calls to make the application a single page)
- A basic Raphael.js pie chart
- Some JUnit tests
- Using webjars to easily import dependencies
See the wiki for more information
- You can download v2.0.4 of the framework here
- Once it's installed, set the path to the extracted directory on your PATH
git clone https://github.com/panahi/ShoppingCart.gitcd ShoppingCartplay run
This will download some framework dependencies and the Webjars I've included (just Twitter Bootstrap). If you only type play in the shopping cart directory, you will enter the Play Console which has a variety of commands.
- As a basic security precaution, the user must enter a password to add a new item to the database. This password is compared to an environment variable on the server. To enable adding items to the database, set a password in a variable named
PLAYUPLOAD - The primary configurable aspect is the database used. H2 is an in-memory database suitable for development and is enabled by default
To use MySQL, comment out the lines for H2
In conf/application.conf
#db.default.driver=org.h2.Driver
#db.default.url="jdbc:h2:mem:play"
And uncomment the lines for MySQL (replacing url, user, and password with your information)
db.default.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
db.default.url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/play"
db.default.user=someuser
db.default.password=somepassword
Play includes the command play test which will compile and execute any JUnit tests it finds in the test/ directory. There are a handful there now to test a few of the routes and the view rendering.