A free and open source Play Framework Module for Twitter is now available! It supports play framework version 2.x and it will fetch, cache, and display tweets from Twitter. It's resilient against Twitter API downtime/rate-limiting by maintaining a cached copy of the last successful API call. It supports rendering tweets into html for simple display. It's published to maven central for quick and easy installation as a dependency in your play project.
There are a handful of articles on how to build a module for version 2.x of the Play Framework. While those articles are an excellent starting point, they were lacking information on configuration, exposing a plugin, and publishing them to maven central. This post will explain how to build, maintain, publish, and use your Play Framework 2.x module in other projects.
Tapping into your build system to automatically generate source code that includes build information (version, date, dependencies) is not only smart, it should be the standard. For Maven-based Java projects, I've long had a technique I use in every project by defining it in a standard parent pom.xml file used in every project. For Play framework's SBT-based build system, there fortunately is a plugin (sbt-buildinfo) which can accomplish the same result with just a few simple tweaks.
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