play-silhouette: specify body parser for (Un)SecuredAction?

Question

I'm using silhouette for authentication in a play web application and want to do something like this:

def action = UnsecuredAction(BodyParsers.parse.json).async { implicit request => 
    // use json 
}

This seems to be possible when using Play's build-in Action , but not with silhouette's UnsecuredAction and SecuredAction . Is there a way to do this without having to fall back to silhouette's (Un)SecuredRequestHandler or having to check manually if the body is actually JSON?

Answer 1

You can parse your request body to JSON by using async(parse.json) .

For example:

def index = silhouette.SecuredAction.async(parse.json) { implicit request =>
   // Write your code here...
}