title: Exception while getting string from conf file in Play 2 with Scala
body: <p>I am trying to get a file path from conf, this is my conf file:</p>
  
  <p>uploadedFilePath.conf</p>
  
  <pre><code>file.path="public/img/"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is how I am getting path from conf file in my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>     val conf = ConfigFactory.load()
       var path : String = conf.getString("file.path")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting exception on second line </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>09:58:11.527 108649 [application-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-10]
    PlayDefaultUpstreamHandler ERROR - Cannot invoke the action
    com.typesafe.config.ConfigException$WrongType: system properties: path
    has type OBJECT rather than STRING
            at com.typesafe.config.impl.SimpleConfig.findKeyOrNull(SimpleConfig.java:159)
    ~[com.typesafe.config-1.3.0.jar:na]
            at com.typesafe.config.impl.SimpleConfig.findOrNull(SimpleConfig.java:170)
    ~[com.typesafe.config-1.3.0.jar:na]
            at com.typesafe.config.impl.SimpleConfig.find(SimpleConfig.java:184)
    ~[com.typesafe.config-1.3.0.jar:na]
            at com.typesafe.config.impl.SimpleConfig.find(SimpleConfig.java:189)
    ~[com.typesafe.config-1.3.0.jar:na]
            at com.typesafe.config.impl.SimpleConfig.getString(SimpleConfig.java:246)
    ~[com.typesafe.config-1.3.0.jar:na]</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I am do not know what I am doing wrong.</p>