How to make Squeryl work with the Play! Framework? - scala

Question

I'm trying to learn how to make a simple database app with Play and Squeryl. I've made the Tasks app from the Play tutorial, but I want to change the model / schema so that it uses Squeryl instead of Anorm. I've been looking at different tutorials, examples and answers, but I haven't really figured out how to do this.
So, given the source code from the Play Tutorial (ScalaTodoList); how do I proceed to make it work with Squeryl?
More specifically:
How do I implement the all(), create(), and delete() methods in my model? (I'd like to use auto-incrementing ID's for the Tasks)
Which database adapter to use is currently hard coded in Build.scala and Global.scala (see below). How can I make it such that it automatically uses H2 for dev/testing and Postgres on Heroku, like it does for Anorm in the Play tutorial?
How do I make sure that it automatically creates my tables?
This is what I've done thus far
I've completed the Play ScalaTodoList Tutorial.
In project/Build.scala, object ApplicationBuild, I've added the dependencies:
// From the "Squeryl Getting Started tutorial"
val posgresDriver = "postgresql" % "postgresql" % "8.4-702.jdbc4"
val h2 = "com.h2database" % "h2" % "1.2.127"
// From the "Squeryl Getting Started tutorial"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
"org.squeryl" %% "squeryl" % "0.9.5",
h2
)
// From the Play tutorial
val appDependencies = Seq(
// Add your project dependencies here,
"org.squeryl" %% "squeryl" % "0.9.5", // Copied from above so that it compiles (?)
"postgresql" % "postgresql" % "8.4-702.jdbc4"
)
added app/Global.scala (taken from the SO answer mentioned above, just changed the adapter to H2):
import play.db.DB
import play.api.Application
import play.api.GlobalSettings
import org.squeryl._
import org.squeryl.adapters._
object Global extends GlobalSettings {
override def onStart(app: Application): Unit =
{
SessionFactory.concreteFactory = Some(
() => Session.create(DB.getDataSource().getConnection(),
dbAdapter));
}
override def onStop(app: Application): Unit =
{
}
val dbAdapter = new H2Adapter(); // Hard coded. Not good.
}
in app/models/Task.scala I've added imports and removed the Anorm implemetations in all(), create(), and delete().
The controller from the Play tutorial expects the all() method to return List[Task].
import org.squeryl.PrimitiveTypeMode._
import org.squeryl.Schema
import org.squeryl.annotations.Column
case class Task(id: Long, label: String)
object Task extends Schema {
val tasks = table[Task] // Inspired by Squeryl tutorial
def all(): List[Task] = {
List[Task]() // ??
}
def create(label: String) {
// ??
}
def delete(id: Long) {
// ??
}
}
The rest of the files are left as they were at the end of the Play tutorial.

Answer 1

Here is an example Play 2 project with Squeryl:
https://github.com/jamesward/play2bars/tree/scala-squeryl

Answer 2

The "Play for Scala" (MEAP) book has a chapter on Squeryl integration
http://www.manning.com/hilton/