PlayFramework Result with Ajax

Question

According to : PlayFramework Document 2.0 & PlayFramework Document 2.1

I know that in play I can return:

Ok()
badRequest()
created()
status()
forbidden()
internalServerError()
TODO

etc...

I would like to send with ajax an response with my information in it. Unfortunatelly play sends only status information, and some kind of object which I do not understand. Only method ok("Test message") sends status and my message information. Rest of it dosnt work. How to deal with it?

-- Edit --

I have ajax method:

$.post($("#assignmentsubmitAddress").text(), { 'units' : submittedUnits },
  function(response, status, xhr) {
showNotyfication(status, response);
  })

When I return ok("test"); In java script variable response I have just String test

When I return badRequest("test"); In java script variable response I have java object. When I print variable response I am getting Object object .

Answer 1

To send back a response in the json format to your client send a ok containing a string :

/**
 * Translate a json object into a json string.
 */
public static<T> String objToJson(Object obj)
{
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    try{
        String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(obj);
        return json;
    }catch(java.io.IOException e){
        Logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
    }
    return "";
}

public static Result actions()
{
    Object objToSendBack = ...
    return ok(objToJson(objToSendBack));
}

You can send back wathever you want, including html, but json is more convenient for communicating with javascript functions.

Answer 2

I've figure it out.

I've just changed variable response which is an object to response.responseText .

Now it works.