Playframework 2.x - prevent assets caching

Question

I'm using playframework v2 and I have my sitemap files being re-created once a day by an external process. They're all in the assets folder/sitemap

How do I force playframework to return the file directly from disk?

Answer 1

You should get the file (from disk or WS) and render the content in a classic Action, then set the cache with an annotation :

@Cached(key="sitemap", duration=86400)
public static Result index() {
  // ... set sitemap variable from your file
  return ok(siteMap);
}

http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0/JavaCache

Or you can achieve the same behavior with a job.

Answer 2

put it in the /public folder.. resources from there are not intercepted/processed by any controller, etc.

so if you put your file into the folder /public/sitemaps/sitemap.xml it will be available as yoursite.com/public/sitemaps/sitemap.xml