scala-play-gzip

Yesterday I was surprised by what it takes to make play gzip content:

According to the documentation, all you have to do is enable the gzip filter in your conf file: https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.7.x/GzipEncoding

like so :

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

However gzip was clearly not enabled on my site. So after a lot of googling and some head scratching I was lost.
After a lot more thinking I added it to the Filters.scala file like so:

import javax.inject.Inject
import play.api.http.HttpFilters
import org.pac4j.play.filters.SecurityFilter
import play.filters.gzip.GzipFilter

class Filters @Inject()(securityFilter: SecurityFilter, gzipFilter: GzipFilter) extends HttpFilters {

  def filters = Seq(securityFilter, gzipFilter)

}

And voila - it worked.