.. _-extractMethod-:

extractMethod
=============

Signature
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.. includecode2:: /../../akka-http/src/main/scala/akka/http/scaladsl/server/directives/MethodDirectives.scala
   :snippet: extractMethod

Description
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Extracts the :class:`HttpMethod` from the request context and provides it for use for other directives explicitly.

Example
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In the below example our route first matches all ``GET`` requests, and if an incoming request wasn't a ``GET``,
the matching continues and the extractMethod route will be applied which we can use to programatically
print what type of request it was - independent of what actual HttpMethod it was:

.. includecode2:: ../../../../code/docs/http/scaladsl/server/directives/MethodDirectivesExamplesSpec.scala
   :snippet: extractMethod-example