ScalaWilliam · June 1, 2017 16:16 · Aug 20, 2014 · Aug 20, 2014 · Aug 20, 2014 · Aug 20, 2014
diff --git a/pom-dependency.xml b/pom-dependency.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>typesafe</id>
+            <name>typesafe-releases</name>
+            <url>http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+    <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.typesafe.play</groupId>
             <artifactId>play-ws_2.11</artifactId>
             <version>2.3.3</version>
-        </dependency>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
diff --git a/pom-dependency.xml b/pom-dependency.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.typesafe.play</groupId>
             <artifactId>play-ws_2.11</artifactId>

diff --git a/output.txt b/output.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 Here are the first ten Planet Scala titles:
 Planet Scala
 Big Data Engineer / Data Scientist at Recruit IT (Full-time)

diff --git a/pom-dependency.xml b/pom-dependency.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.typesafe.play</groupId>
+            <artifactId>play-ws_2.11</artifactId>
+            <version>2.3.3</version>
+        </dependency>
diff --git a/WSWithoutPlayApp.scala b/WSWithoutPlayApp.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package com.scalawilliam.example.play
+
+import play.api.libs.ws._
+
+/**
+ * Play's Scala WS library is very very cool. Provides you with plenty niceties.
+ * See more: https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.3.x/ScalaWS
+ *
+ * Unfortunately it by default requires a Play application context.
+ * But you do not necessarily always want that.
+ *
+ * William Narmontas, Scala Consultant, London. UK
+ * https://www.scalawilliam.com/
+ */
+object WSWithoutPlayApp extends App {
+
+  class StandaloneWSAPI(wsClientConfig: WSClientConfig = DefaultWSClientConfig()) extends WSAPI with java.io.Closeable {
+
+    import play.api.libs.ws.ning.{NingWSClient, NingAsyncHttpClientConfigBuilder}
+
+    lazy val configuration = new NingAsyncHttpClientConfigBuilder(wsClientConfig).build()
+    lazy val ningWsClient = new NingWSClient(configuration)
+    override val client: WSClient = ningWsClient
+
+    override def url(url: String): WSRequestHolder = client.url(url)
+
+    def close(): Unit = {
+      ningWsClient.close()
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  val standaloneWSAPI = new StandaloneWSAPI()
+
+  // Standard Play-style WSAPI
+  val wsAPI: WSAPI = standaloneWSAPI
+
+  def holder = {
+    wsAPI.url("http://www.planetscala.com/atom.xml")
+      .withHeaders("Accept" -> "application/xml")
+      .withRequestTimeout(10000)
+  }
+
+  import scala.concurrent._
+  import scala.concurrent.duration._
+  import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
+  import scala.concurrent.Await
+
+  def getPlanetScalaTitles: Future[Seq[String]] = {
+    holder.get().map(_.xml \\ "title" map (_.text))
+  }
+
+  println("Here are the first ten Planet Scala titles:")
+  try {
+    Await.result(getPlanetScalaTitles, 10.seconds) take 10 foreach println
+  } finally {
+    // required, else there'll be threads hanging around
+    // you might not care to do this though.
+    standaloneWSAPI.close()
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/output.txt b/output.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+Here are the first ten Planet Scala titles:
+Planet Scala
+Big Data Engineer / Data Scientist at Recruit IT (Full-time)
+Functional Jobs: Search 'scala'
+Mobile Enterprise Integration with Scala, MongoDB and Swagger
+Janx Spirit
+Scala: Next Steps
+Scala 2.11.2 is now available!
+Scala for Java Developers
+Relentless Scaling
+Play 2.3 Applications on OpenShift
+
+Process finished with exit code 0