use it like an amazon s3 bucket. It will only store one version of a file since it computes the sha1 hash of the file and uses that as a pathname.

val appDependencies = Seq(
	"se.digiplant" %% "play-res" % "1.0"
)

val root = PlayProject(appName, appVersion, appDependencies, mainLang = SCALA).settings(
  // To simplify the reverse routing we can import the digiPlant namespace
  templatesImport ++= Seq(
    "se.digiplant._"
  )
)

# Resource plugin save directory
# is relative to app, but can be absolute to filesystem also
res.default=res/default

GET    /res/:file      se.digiplant.res.ResAssets.at(file)

# If you wan't to separate your resources into separate sources, you can add multiple routes

GET    /images/:file      se.digiplant.res.ResAssets.at(file, "images")

The play-res plugin generates a unique sha1 hash of the file and stores the file on disk in an optimal 4char/4char/sha1hash.ext directory structure. By only having to save the fileuid (5564ac5e3968e77b4022f55a23d36630bdeb0274.jpg) to the db it's easy to retrieve the image or other document.

Here are a few examples on how to get files

<img src="@res.routes.ResAssets.at("5564ac5e3968e77b4022f55a23d36630bdeb0274.jpg")" alt="" />

Or if you wan't to get the route to an file stored in a different source

<img src="@res.routes.ResAssets.at("5564ac5e3968e77b4022f55a23d36630bdeb0274.jpg", "images")" alt="" />

You can specify multiple sources if you would like to split you resources into categories, such as profile images / uploads. By then adding another source in conf/application.conf

res.profile=res/profile

you will also have to add another route

GET    /profile/:file      se.digiplant.res.ResAssets.at(file, "profile")