How to serve static asset from controller action in Play Framework 2.3?

In my application, I need to serve a static file from a shared folder. And for some reason I have to do it with a Java controller action.

The first solution that came to my mind is to do something like:

public class Central extends Controller {
     public static Result index() {
         return Assets.at("/public", "central/index.html", false);
     }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

But the return type of the method Assets.at

isplay.api.mvc.Action<play.api.mvc.AnyContent>

Is there a way to convert it to a type play.mvc.Result

?

Or any other elegant way to execute a static file from a Java controller action?