Learning Scala Web Development (Video 9)

This video continues exploring the Spray routing module, focusing on marshalling support and error handling. It covers data representation using JSON, including the use of Spray JSON Module and handling unsupported types like Joda time. The video also discusses error management in Spray, distinguishing between exceptions and timeouts, and introduces default implementations for handling these errors. Finally, it concludes with a brief overview of the next topic, Spray Can, which will be covered in the following video.

What is the primary purpose of the spray routing module in the context of RESTful web services?

• To perform data encryption

• To define and manage routes

• To create user interfaces

• To handle database connections

Which data format is predominantly used in modern web applications, as mentioned in the video?

• YAML

• JSON

• CSV

• XML

What must be defined to handle custom data types like Joda time in spray JSON?

• A new database schema

• A custom JSON protocol

• A unique API endpoint

• A separate server instance

How does spray routing handle exceptions?

• By restarting the server

• By using an implicit partial function or a directive

• By ignoring them

• By logging them to a file

What is the next module to be discussed after spray routing, as mentioned in the video?

• Spray-http

• Spray-json

• Spray-can

• Spray-client