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§Configuring gzip encoding

Play provides a gzip filter that can be used to gzip responses.

§Enabling the gzip filter

To enable the gzip filter, add the filter to application.conf:

play.filters.enabled += "play.filters.gzip.GzipFilter"

§Configuring the gzip filter

The gzip filter supports a small number of tuning configuration options, which can be configured from application.conf. To see the available configuration options, see the Play filters reference.conf.

§Controlling which responses are gzipped

To control which responses are and aren’t implemented, use the shouldGzip parameter, which accepts a function of a request header and a response header to a boolean.

For example, the code below only gzips HTML responses:

Scala

new GzipFilter(shouldGzip = (request, response) =>
  response.body.contentType.exists(_.startsWith("text/html")))

Java

GzipFilterConfig gzipFilterConfig = new GzipFilterConfig();
GzipFilter gzipFilter = new GzipFilter(
  gzipFilterConfig.withShouldGzip((BiFunction<Http.RequestHeader, Result, Object>) (req, res) ->
    res.body().contentType().orElse("").startsWith("text/html")
  ), materializer
);

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