Salat and Play 2.0

Build.scala

//...
val novusSnapsRepo = "Novus Snapshots Repository" at "http://repo.novus.com/snapshots/"

  val salatCore = "com.novus" %% "salat-core" % "0.0.8-SNAPSHOT" withSources
  val salatUtil = "com.novus" %% "salat-util" % "0.0.8-SNAPSHOT" withSources

  val appDependencies = Seq(
    // Add your project dependencies here,
    salatCore,
    salatUtil
  )

  val main = PlayProject(appName, appVersion, appDependencies, mainLang = SCALA).settings(
    // Add your own project settings here
    resolvers ++= Seq(
      novusSnapsRepo
    )
  )
//...

Model.scala

case class Model(_id:ObjectId, data: String = "") {

}

object Model {
  // Defining this, ease the usage of the grater, otherwise it implies the user to import himself all Salat deps. Now, we can simply use this val without extra imports. 
  def graterModel(implicit ctx:Context): Grater[Model] =  grater[Model]

  def to(m:Model):DBObject= graterModel.asDBObject(m)
  def from(m:DBObject):Model = graterModel.asObject(m)

}

salatcontext.scala

package object salatctx {
  /**
   * Here is where we define the custom Play serialization context, including the Play classloader.
   */
  implicit val ctx = {
    val c = new Context {
      val name = "play-context"
    }

    c.registerClassLoader(Play.classloader)

    c
  }

}