Lift bookmarklet

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// In our case, we have /bookmarklet/{uuid}?title={page title}&url={page url}

// In Boot:
LiftRules.statelessDispatchTable.prepend(Bookmarklet.dispatch)

// The bookmarklet itself....

object Bookmarklet extends Loggable {

  def dispatch: LiftRules.DispatchPF = {
    case req@Req("bookmarklet" :: uuid :: Nil, _, GetRequest) => () => add(uuid, req)
  }

  // We're just returning static Javascript to say "OK, we got the URL"
  val confirmation: Box[LiftResponse] = for (js <- LiftRules.loadResourceAsString("/js/bookmarklet-confirmation.js")) 
       yield JavaScriptResponse(JE.JsRaw(js))

  // Had to butcher this example out from existing system... not tried to compile :-/

  private def add(uuid: String, req: Req): Box[LiftResponse] = for { 
    person <- Person.byToken(uuid)
    url <- req.param("u")
    title_text = <- req.param("t") 
  } yield { 
    // do work here 
    confirmation
  }

}