Beyond URL Matching: Mastering the Spray/Akka-Http Routing DSL
summary
Concrete examples of route code, composition and deployment show how to build a high‑performance REST API with Spray/Akka‑HTTP: actor‑backed servers listening on a port, spray-testkit for request/unit tests, explicit handling of rejections and gzip, custom directives such as HTTPS enforcement, nonblocking calls to databases using futures and conditional responses, and JSON marshalling with spray‑json. Claims include real production usage over multiple years and working example apps; the demos show what fails, what needs manual rejection handling, and what actually runs in production.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:57Brief instructions
- 3:13Spray SB
- 5:12Why Spray
- 6:43Basic Examples
- 9:26Testing
- 11:34Actor
- 13:29Request
- 16:58Side effects
- 18:16Composing process
- 19:44Directors
- 21:04Highlevel directives
- 21:57Rod
- 23:02Complete
- 24:29Wrapper
- 26:31Vision
- 29:56Supported Methods
- 31:23Composing
- 33:40Support
- 35:15Protection
- 39:22Headers
- 41:43Directives
- 46:25Teachers
- 51:07Summary
- 51:50Rejection
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