Scala-play-react seed project fails with Play 2.7.0

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I am currently learning ReactJS and am using the following seed-project;

In order, I have upgraded;

  • Scala 2.12.8
    (the application works fine)
  • sbt 1.2.8
    (app works)
  • Play 2.7.0
    (app fails with the following error)
[error] D:\workspace\scala-play-react-seed\project\FrontendRunHook.scala:42:20: method afterStarted overrides nothing.
[error] Note: the super classes of object UIBuildHook contain the following, non final members named afterStarted:
[error] def afterStarted(): Unit
[error]       override def afterStarted(addr: InetSocketAddress): Unit = {
[error]                    ^

There is no mention in the 2.7 migration guide that anything needs to be changed between 2.6 and 2.7 for this method / process.

So;
I removed the override keyword and the application compiles just fine, now - but it refuses to run, now producing a routes error;

Action Not Found
For request 'GET /'
These routes have been tried, in this order:
1GET/controllers.FrontendController.index()
2GET/api/summarycontrollers.HomeController.appSummary
3GET/$file<.+>controllers.FrontendController.assetOrDefault(file:String)

I reviewed the documentation and noticed that the example “afterStarted” method contains no arguments. So I removed the argument from the seed application, and it now works.

Which is great - but I have no idea what removing the argument, might else do.

So I am left with, is this a change within Play 2.7.x - that is;

  • at the very least, an undocumented change
  • or a bug, that needs addressing.

-Gavin.