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Adding a product

The next method to implement is the ability to add a product to the database.

If you are annoyed by the errors shown by IntelliJ when you start a new implementation, you can add a dummy return status.

First, we will return a dummy status to avoid IntelliJ errors:

def addProduct() = Action.async { request =>
  Future.successful(Ok)
}

Then, we will complete the implementation, as follows:

  def addProduct() = Action.async { request =>
    val productOrNot = decode[Product] (request.body.asText.getOrElse("")) productOrNot match { case Right(product) => { val futureInsert = productDao.insert(product).recover { case e => { Logger.error("Error while writing in the database", e) InternalServerError("Cannot write in the database") } futureInsert.map(_ ...