Play 2.3/Angular JS $resource/routing issue - angularjs

Question

So I'm trying to AJAX a single solr doc from my results list to a "doc view" view. I'm trying to use AngularJS to AJAX to my view render method and display the doc that way, but I can't seem to get the angular to work and I'm not sure I'm doing things correctly on the Play side either. Would you at least be willing to tell me if what I'm trying to do will work? The Angular error comes from the docText.text(); call. Here is my code:
Angular controller code:
var docText = $resource("http://localhost:9000/views/full-doc-text.html", {
text: {method: 'PUT'}
});
$scope.handleViewText = function(value) {
docText.text({doc: value});
}
Java code:
public static Result viewText() {
JsonNode json = request().body().asJson();
//do stuff here
return ok(viewtext.render(json));
}
route:
GET /views/full-doc-text.html controllers.Application.viewText()

Answer 1

I see three problems with the code above;
1.The definition of docText resource is not correct. if your read the angularjs manual here you'll see that $resource has 4 parameters. First one is resource url, second is parameter defaults, third one is custom actions and forth one is resource options where last three of them are optional. In your code you pass custom actions as the second parameter, which should be the third. And since you don't have any parameters in your resource url second parameter must be null. So first correction is:
var docText = $resource("http://localhost:9000/views/full-doc-text.html", null, {
text: {method: 'PUT'}
});
2.You define your text action's HTTP method as PUT however in your routes file you are handling GET requests for your desired action. You should change your route definition as:
PUT /views/full-doc-text.html controllers.Application.viewText()
3.PUT method is usually used for update operations when implementing a RESTFULL service. In your case you don't seem to be updating anything. So I suggest to use POST method just for convention.