Play framework AngularJs CORS post json - json

Question

I have a frontend in AngularJs and a playframework 2 Scala backend. Looking at this to add CORs to the backend - I have two endpoints a GET and POST
GET /api/question/:id controllers.Questions.getQuestion(id: String)
POST /api/question/:id controllers.Questions.postQuestion(id: String)
This solution provided in the other response works for the GET but not for the POST
def getQuestion(key:String) = CorsAction{
....
}
def postQuestion(key:String) = CorsAction(parse.json){
req =>
........
}
What I understood is that the CORsAction (which extends ActionBuilder) can also accept methods which a bodyparser and thus should essentially work for POST requests as well.
This is what I see in the browser console when i hit POST from my front end.
OPTIONS http://localhost:9000/api/question/abc123 No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3001' is therefore not allowed access. angular.js:7997
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:9000/api/question/abc123. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3001' is therefore not allowed access.

Answer 1

So I'm not sure the exact problem but adding the following to the routes
fixed the problem
OPTIONS /api/question/:id controllers.Application.preflight(id)
Where the preflight endpont just returns Ok with the CORs headers. But I would have thought that the CorsAction was supposed to take care of this. Anyways, moving on.