Play Authentication/Authorization

Play Authentication/Authorization

The Play documentation pages for Action Composition outline how to use the basic authentication functionality included with Play or build your own functionality. One possible solution is to use OAuth as documented within the Play website.

For other, full featured solutions, these community plug-ins are popular:

Please be aware that these are community projects - they are not maintained by Lightbend. When it comes to support, we may or may not be able to help, and they are not covered by our SLAs. In case of problems with these plug-ins, we recommend raising issues in the corresponding projects.

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