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feature request: add Scala 3 context function methods to Action

https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/561f4921e5da477658b8e6b34bd48292b42ac9fe/core/play/src/main/scala/play/api/mvc/Action.scala#L360C2-L428C92

There are some Action construct methods.

  def apply(block: R[B] => Result): Action[B] =
  def apply(block: => Result): Action[AnyContent] =
  def async(block: => Future[Result]): Action[AnyContent] =
  def async(block: R[B] => Future[Result]): Action[B] =
  def async[A](bodyParser: BodyParser[A])(block: R[A] => Future[Result]): Action[A] =

some common use cases request implicit variable not reference explicit in Action.

class MyController {
  def hello(id: Int): Action[AnyContent] = Action { implicit request =>
    obj.myMethodImplicitRequest(id)
  }
}
def myMethodImplicitRequest(id: Int)(implicit request: Request[?]) =

I think this is proper use case Scala 3 context function.
We can remove boilerplate implicit request => by context function.

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/contextual/context-functions.html

class MyController {
+  def hello(id: Int): Action[AnyContent] = Action.someContextFunctionMethod {
-  def hello(id: Int): Action[AnyContent] = Action { implicit request =>
    obj.myMethodImplicitRequest(id)
  }
}

We should add new name method in src/main/scala-3 instead of apply or async overloads but I can’t think of good method name.

WDYT?

I have added some context function methods in scalikejdbc because there is similar use case