formField
Description
Allows extracting a single Form field sent in the request. Data posted from HTML Forms is either of type application/x-www-form-urlencoded
or of type multipart/form-data
.
See formFields for an in-depth description.
Example
- Scala
-
val route = formField('color) { color => complete(s"The color is '$color'") } ~ formField('id.as[Int]) { id => complete(s"The id is '$id'") } // tests: Post("/", FormData("color" -> "blue")) ~> route ~> check { responseAs[String] shouldEqual "The color is 'blue'" } Get("/") ~> Route.seal(route) ~> check { status shouldEqual StatusCodes.BadRequest responseAs[String] shouldEqual "Request is missing required form field 'color'" }
- Java
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final Route route = route( formField("color", color -> complete("The color is '" + color + "'") ), formField(StringUnmarshallers.INTEGER, "id", id -> complete("The id is '" + id + "'") ) ); // tests: final FormData formData = FormData.create(Pair.create("color", "blue")); testRoute(route).run(HttpRequest.POST("/").withEntity(formData.toEntity())) .assertEntity("The color is 'blue'"); testRoute(route).run(HttpRequest.GET("/")) .assertStatusCode(StatusCodes.BAD_REQUEST) .assertEntity("Request is missing required form field 'color'");