Programs & Examples On #Jackson

Jackson is a Java library for handling tasks like reading and writing (parsing / generating) and data binding to/from Java objects. Although primarily used for JSON, Jackson also supports many other data formats such as Avro, CBOR, CSV, Java Properties, Protobuf, Smile, XML and YAML.

Converting JSON data to Java object

Bewaaaaare of Gson! It's very cool, very great, but the second you want to do anything other than simple objects, you could easily need to start building your own serializers (which isn't that hard).

Also, if you have an array of Objects, and you deserialize some json into that array of Objects, the true types are LOST! The full objects won't even be copied! Use XStream.. Which, if using the jsondriver and setting the proper settings, will encode ugly types into the actual json, so that you don't loose anything. A small price to pay (ugly json) for true serialization.

Note that Jackson fixes these issues, and is faster than GSON.

Jackson and generic type reference

This is a well-known problem with Java type erasure: T is just a type variable, and you must indicate actual class, usually as Class argument. Without such information, best that can be done is to use bounds; and plain T is roughly same as 'T extends Object'. And Jackson will then bind JSON Objects as Maps.

In this case, tester method needs to have access to Class, and you can construct

JavaType type = mapper.getTypeFactory().
  constructCollectionType(List.class, Foo.class)

and then

List<Foo> list = mapper.readValue(new File("input.json"), type);

Can not deserialize instance of java.lang.String out of START_ARRAY token

The error is:

Can not deserialize instance of java.lang.String out of START_ARRAY token at [Source: line: 1, column: 1095] (through reference chain: JsonGen["platforms"])

In JSON, platforms look like this:

"platforms": [
    {
        "platform": "iphone"
    },
    {
        "platform": "ipad"
    },
    {
        "platform": "android_phone"
    },
    {
        "platform": "android_tablet"
    }
]

So try change your pojo to something like this:

private List platforms;

public List getPlatforms(){
    return this.platforms;
}

public void setPlatforms(List platforms){
    this.platforms = platforms;
}

EDIT: you will need change mobile_networks too. Will look like this:

private List mobile_networks;

public List getMobile_networks() {
    return mobile_networks;
}

public void setMobile_networks(List mobile_networks) {
    this.mobile_networks = mobile_networks;
}

Converting Java objects to JSON with Jackson

You could do this:

String json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(yourObjectHere);

Pretty printing JSON from Jackson 2.2's ObjectMapper

if you are using spring and jackson combination you can do it as following. I'm following @gregwhitaker as suggested but implementing in spring style.

<bean id="objectMapper" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper">
    <property name="dateFormat">
        <bean class="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">
            <constructor-arg value="yyyy-MM-dd" />
            <property name="lenient" value="false" />
        </bean>
    </property>
    <property name="serializationInclusion">
        <value type="com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include">
            NON_NULL
        </value>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
    <property name="targetObject">
        <ref bean="objectMapper" />
    </property>
    <property name="targetMethod">
        <value>enable</value>
    </property>
    <property name="arguments">
        <value type="com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature">
            INDENT_OUTPUT
        </value>
    </property>
</bean>

How to use Jackson to deserialise an array of objects

First create a mapper :

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;// in play 2.3
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

As Array:

MyClass[] myObjects = mapper.readValue(json, MyClass[].class);

As List:

List<MyClass> myObjects = mapper.readValue(jsonInput, new TypeReference<List<MyClass>>(){});

Another way to specify the List type:

List<MyClass> myObjects = mapper.readValue(jsonInput, mapper.getTypeFactory().constructCollectionType(List.class, MyClass.class));

Parsing JSON in Spring MVC using Jackson JSON

I'm using json lib from http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/
json-lib-2.1-jdk15.jar

import net.sf.json.JSONObject;
...

public void send()
{
    //put attributes
    Map m = New HashMap();
    m.put("send_to","[email protected]");
    m.put("email_subject","this is a test email");
    m.put("email_content","test email content");

    //generate JSON Object
    JSONObject json = JSONObject.fromObject(content);
    String message = json.toString();
    ...
}

public void receive(String jsonMessage)
{
    //parse attributes
    JSONObject json = JSONObject.fromObject(jsonMessage);
    String to = (String) json.get("send_to");
    String title = (String) json.get("email_subject");
    String content = (String) json.get("email_content");
    ...
}

More samples here http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/usage.html

How to parse a JSON string into JsonNode in Jackson?

A slight variation on Richards answer but readTree can take a string so you can simplify it to:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode actualObj = mapper.readTree("{\"k1\":\"v1\"}");

How to modify JsonNode in Java?

Just for the sake of understanding of others who may not get the whole picture clear following code works for me to find a field and then update it

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode rootNode = mapper.readTree(JsonString);    
JsonPointer valueNodePointer = JsonPointer.compile("/GrandObj/Obj/field");
JsonPointer containerPointer = valueNodePointer.head();
JsonNode parentJsonNode = rootNode.at(containerPointer);

if (!parentJsonNode.isMissingNode() && parentJsonNode.isObject()) {
    ObjectNode parentObjectNode = (ObjectNode) parentJsonNode;
    //following will give you just the field name. 
    //e.g. if pointer is /grandObject/Object/field
    //JsonPoint.last() will give you /field 
    //remember to take out the / character 
    String fieldName = valueNodePointer.last().toString();
    fieldName = fieldName.replace(Character.toString(JsonPointer.SEPARATOR), StringUtils.EMPTY);
    JsonNode fieldValueNode = parentObjectNode.get(fieldName);

    if(fieldValueNode != null) {
        parentObjectNode.put(fieldName, "NewValue");
    }
}

Casting LinkedHashMap to Complex Object

You can use ObjectMapper.convertValue(), either value by value or even for the whole list. But you need to know the type to convert to:

POJO pojo = mapper.convertValue(singleObject, POJO.class);
// or:
List<POJO> pojos = mapper.convertValue(listOfObjects, new TypeReference<List<POJO>>() { });

this is functionally same as if you did:

byte[] json = mapper.writeValueAsBytes(singleObject);
POJO pojo = mapper.readValue(json, POJO.class);

but avoids actual serialization of data as JSON, instead using an in-memory event sequence as the intermediate step.

No content to map due to end-of-input jackson parser

This error is sometimes (often?) hiding the real problem: a failure condition could be causing the content to be incorrect, which then fails to deserialize.

In my case, today, I was making HTTP calls and (foolishly) omitted to check the HTTP status code before trying to unmarshal the body of the response => my real problem was actualy that I had some authentication error, which caused a 401 Unauthorized to be sent back to me, with an empty body. Since I was unmarshalling that empty body directly without checking anything, I was getting this No content to map due to end-of-input, without getting any clue about the authentication issue.

Why when a constructor is annotated with @JsonCreator, its arguments must be annotated with @JsonProperty?

It is possible to avoid constructor annotations with jdk8 where optionally the compiler will introduce metadata with the names of the constructor parameters. Then with jackson-module-parameter-names module Jackson can use this constructor. You can see an example at post Jackson without annotations

How to deserialize JS date using Jackson?

@JsonFormat only work for standard format supported by the jackson version that you are using.

Ex :- compatible with any of standard forms ("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz", "yyyy-MM-dd")) for jackson 2.8.6

JsonMappingException: No suitable constructor found for type [simple type, class ]: can not instantiate from JSON object

When I ran into this problem, it was a result of trying to use an inner class to serve as the DO. Construction of the inner class (silently) required an instance of the enclosing class -- which wasn't available to Jackson.

In this case, moving the inner class to its own .java file fixed the problem.

Strange Jackson exception being thrown when serializing Hibernate object

i got the same error, but with no relation to Hibernate. I got scared here from all frightening suggestions, which i guess relevant in case of Hibernate and lazy loading... However, in my case i got the error since in an inner class i had no getters/setters, so the BeanSerializer could not serialize the data...

Adding getters & setters resolved the problem.

@JsonProperty annotation on field as well as getter/setter

My observations based on a few tests has been that whichever name differs from the property name is one which takes effect:

For eg. consider a slight modification of your case:

@JsonProperty("fileName")
private String fileName;

@JsonProperty("fileName")
public String getFileName()
{
    return fileName;
}

@JsonProperty("fileName1")
public void setFileName(String fileName)
{
    this.fileName = fileName;
}

Both fileName field, and method getFileName, have the correct property name of fileName and setFileName has a different one fileName1, in this case Jackson will look for a fileName1 attribute in json at the point of deserialization and will create a attribute called fileName1 at the point of serialization.

Now, coming to your case, where all the three @JsonProperty differ from the default propertyname of fileName, it would just pick one of them as the attribute(FILENAME), and had any on of the three differed, it would have thrown an exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Conflicting property name definitions

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude$Value

How about adding this to your pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>

Spring Rest POST Json RequestBody Content type not supported

So I had a similar issue where I had a bean with some overloaded constructor. This bean also had Optional properties.

To resolve that I just removed the overloaded constructors and it worked.

example:

public class Bean{

Optional<String> string;
Optional<AnotherClass> object;

public Bean(Optional<String> str, Optional<AnotherClass> obj){
string = str;
object = obj;
}

///The problem was below constructor

public Bean(Optional<String> str){
string = str;
object = Optional.empty();
}



}

}

How to tell Jackson to ignore a field during serialization if its value is null?

You can use the following mapper configuration:

mapper.getSerializationConfig().setSerializationInclusion(Inclusion.NON_NULL);

Since 2.5 you can user:

mapper.setSerializationInclusion(Include.NON_NULL);

Issue with parsing the content from json file with Jackson & message- JsonMappingException -Cannot deserialize as out of START_ARRAY token

JsonMappingException: out of START_ARRAY token exception is thrown by Jackson object mapper as it's expecting an Object {} whereas it found an Array [{}] in response.

This can be solved by replacing Object with Object[] in the argument for geForObject("url",Object[].class). References:

  1. Ref.1
  2. Ref.2
  3. Ref.3

Setting default values to null fields when mapping with Jackson

Make the member private and add a setter/getter pair. In your setter, if null, then set default value instead. Additionally, I have shown the snippet with the getter also returning a default when internal value is null.

class JavaObject {
    private static final String DEFAULT="Default Value";

    public JavaObject() {
    }

    @NotNull
    private String notNullMember;
    public void setNotNullMember(String value){
            if (value==null) { notNullMember=DEFAULT; return; }
            notNullMember=value;
            return;
    }

    public String getNotNullMember(){
            if (notNullMember==null) { return DEFAULT;}
            return notNullMember;
    }

    public String optionalMember;
}

How to prevent null values inside a Map and null fields inside a bean from getting serialized through Jackson

Answer seems to be a little old, What I did was to use this mapper to convert a MAP

      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper().configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_NULL_MAP_VALUES, false);

a simple Map:

          Map<String, Object> user = new HashMap<String,Object>();
            user.put( "id",  teklif.getAccount().getId() );
            user.put( "fname", teklif.getAccount().getFname());
            user.put( "lname", teklif.getAccount().getLname());
            user.put( "email", teklif.getAccount().getEmail());
            user.put( "test", null);

Use it like this for example:

      String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(user);

Jackson enum Serializing and DeSerializer

Actual Answer:

The default deserializer for enums uses .name() to deserialize, so it's not using the @JsonValue. So as @OldCurmudgeon pointed out, you'd need to pass in {"event": "FORGOT_PASSWORD"} to match the .name() value.

An other option (assuming you want the write and read json values to be the same)...

More Info:

There is (yet) another way to manage the serialization and deserialization process with Jackson. You can specify these annotations to use your own custom serializer and deserializer:

@JsonSerialize(using = MySerializer.class)
@JsonDeserialize(using = MyDeserializer.class)
public final class MyClass {
    ...
}

Then you have to write MySerializer and MyDeserializer which look like this:

MySerializer

public final class MySerializer extends JsonSerializer<MyClass>
{
    @Override
    public void serialize(final MyClass yourClassHere, final JsonGenerator gen, final SerializerProvider serializer) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException
    {
        // here you'd write data to the stream with gen.write...() methods
    }

}

MyDeserializer

public final class MyDeserializer extends org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer<MyClass>
{
    @Override
    public MyClass deserialize(final JsonParser parser, final DeserializationContext context) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException
    {
        // then you'd do something like parser.getInt() or whatever to pull data off the parser
        return null;
    }

}

Last little bit, particularly for doing this to an enum JsonEnum that serializes with the method getYourValue(), your serializer and deserializer might look like this:

public void serialize(final JsonEnum enumValue, final JsonGenerator gen, final SerializerProvider serializer) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException
{
    gen.writeString(enumValue.getYourValue());
}

public JsonEnum deserialize(final JsonParser parser, final DeserializationContext context) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException
{
    final String jsonValue = parser.getText();
    for (final JsonEnum enumValue : JsonEnum.values())
    {
        if (enumValue.getYourValue().equals(jsonValue))
        {
            return enumValue;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

How to customise the Jackson JSON mapper implicitly used by Spring Boot?

I stumbled upon another solution, which is quite nice.

Basically, only do step 2 from the blog posted mentioned, and define a custom ObjectMapper as a Spring @Component. (Things started working when I just removed all the AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter stuff from step 3.)

@Component
@Primary
public class CustomObjectMapper extends ObjectMapper {
    public CustomObjectMapper() {
        setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL); 
        configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false); 
    }
}

Works as long as the component is in a package scanned by Spring. (Using @Primary is not mandatory in my case, but why not make things explicit.)

For me there are two benefits compared to the other approach:

  • This is simpler; I can just extend a class from Jackson and don't need to know about highly Spring-specific stuff like Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.
  • I want to use the same Jackson configs for deserialising JSON in another part of my app, and this way it's very simple: new CustomObjectMapper() instead of new ObjectMapper().

Jackson - How to process (deserialize) nested JSON?

Here is a rough but more declarative solution. I haven't been able to get it down to a single annotation, but this seems to work well. Also not sure about performance on large data sets.

Given this JSON:

{
    "list": [
        {
            "wrapper": {
                "name": "Jack"
            }
        },
        {
            "wrapper": {
                "name": "Jane"
            }
        }
    ]
}

And these model objects:

public class RootObject {
    @JsonProperty("list")
    @JsonDeserialize(contentUsing = SkipWrapperObjectDeserializer.class)
    @SkipWrapperObject("wrapper")
    public InnerObject[] innerObjects;
}

and

public class InnerObject {
    @JsonProperty("name")
    public String name;
}

Where the Jackson voodoo is implemented like:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@JacksonAnnotation
public @interface SkipWrapperObject {
    String value();
}

and

public class SkipWrapperObjectDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Object> implements
        ContextualDeserializer {
    private Class<?> wrappedType;
    private String wrapperKey;

    public JsonDeserializer<?> createContextual(DeserializationContext ctxt,
            BeanProperty property) throws JsonMappingException {
        SkipWrapperObject skipWrapperObject = property
                .getAnnotation(SkipWrapperObject.class);
        wrapperKey = skipWrapperObject.value();
        JavaType collectionType = property.getType();
        JavaType collectedType = collectionType.containedType(0);
        wrappedType = collectedType.getRawClass();
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public Object deserialize(JsonParser parser, DeserializationContext ctxt)
            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        ObjectNode objectNode = mapper.readTree(parser);
        JsonNode wrapped = objectNode.get(wrapperKey);
        Object mapped = mapIntoObject(wrapped);
        return mapped;
    }

    private Object mapIntoObject(JsonNode node) throws IOException,
            JsonProcessingException {
        JsonParser parser = node.traverse();
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        return mapper.readValue(parser, wrappedType);
    }
}

Hope this is useful to someone!

Convert Java Object to JsonNode in Jackson

As of Jackson 1.6, you can use:

JsonNode node = mapper.valueToTree(map);

or

JsonNode node = mapper.convertValue(object, JsonNode.class);

Source: is there a way to serialize pojo's directly to treemodel?

Only using @JsonIgnore during serialization, but not deserialization

In my case, I have Jackson automatically (de)serializing objects that I return from a Spring MVC controller (I am using @RestController with Spring 4.1.6). I had to use com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore instead of org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonIgnore, as otherwise, it simply did nothing.

Java 8 LocalDate Jackson format

Just an update of Christopher answer.

Since the version 2.6.0

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
    <version>2.9.0</version>
</dependency>

Use the JavaTimeModule instead of JSR310Module (deprecated).

@Provider
public class ObjectMapperContextResolver implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> {  
    private final ObjectMapper MAPPER;

    public ObjectMapperContextResolver() {
        MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
        MAPPER.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
        MAPPER.configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
    }

    @Override
    public ObjectMapper getContext(Class<?> type) {
        return MAPPER;
    }  
}

According to the documentation, the new JavaTimeModule uses same standard settings to default to serialization that does NOT use Timezone Ids, and instead only uses ISO-8601 compliant Timezone offsets.

Behavior may be changed using SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_WITH_ZONE_ID

Using Spring RestTemplate in generic method with generic parameter

Note: This answer refers/adds to Sotirios Delimanolis's answer and comment.

I tried to get it to work with Map<Class, ParameterizedTypeReference<ResponseWrapper<?>>>, as indicated in Sotirios's comment, but couldn't without an example.

In the end, I dropped the wildcard and parametrisation from ParameterizedTypeReference and used raw types instead, like so

Map<Class<?>, ParameterizedTypeReference> typeReferences = new HashMap<>();
typeReferences.put(MyClass1.class, new ParameterizedTypeReference<ResponseWrapper<MyClass1>>() { });
typeReferences.put(MyClass2.class, new ParameterizedTypeReference<ResponseWrapper<MyClass2>>() { });

...

ParameterizedTypeReference typeRef = typeReferences.get(clazz);

ResponseEntity<ResponseWrapper<T>> response = restTemplate.exchange(
        uri, 
        HttpMethod.GET, 
        null, 
        typeRef);

and this finally worked.

If anyone has an example with parametrisation, I'd be very grateful to see it.

How to change a field name in JSON using Jackson

Have you tried using @JsonProperty?

@Entity
public class City {
   @id
   Long id;
   String name;

   @JsonProperty("label")
   public String getName() { return name; }

   public void setName(String name){ this.name = name; }

   @JsonProperty("value")
   public Long getId() { return id; }

   public void setId(Long id){ this.id = id; }
}

JSON Invalid UTF-8 middle byte

This awnser solved my problem. Below is a copy of it:

Make sure to start you JVM with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8. You JVM defaults to the operating system charset

This is a JVM argument which could be added, for example, either to JBoss standalone or JBoss running from Eclipse.

In my case, this problem happened isolatelly on only one of my team people's computer. All the others was working without this problem.

How do I disable fail_on_empty_beans in Jackson?

In Jersey Rest Services just use the JacksonFeatures annotation ...

@JacksonFeatures(serializationDisable = {SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS})
public Response getSomething() {
    Object entity = doSomething();
    return Response.ok(entity).build();
}

Convert a Map<String, String> to a POJO

convert Map to POJO example.Notice the Map key contains underline and field variable is hump.

User.class POJO

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import lombok.Data;

@Data
public class User {
    @JsonProperty("user_name")
    private String userName;
    @JsonProperty("pass_word")
    private String passWord;
}

The App.class test the example

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Map<String, String> info = new HashMap<>();
        info.put("user_name", "Q10Viking");
        info.put("pass_word", "123456");

        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        User user = mapper.convertValue(info, User.class);

        System.out.println("-------------------------------");
        System.out.println(user);
    }
}
/**output
-------------------------------
User(userName=Q10Viking, passWord=123456)
 */

Cannot deserialize instance of object out of START_ARRAY token in Spring Webservice

Your json contains an array, but you're trying to parse it as an object. This error occurs because objects must start with {.

You have 2 options:

  1. You can get rid of the ShopContainer class and use Shop[] instead

    ShopContainer response  = restTemplate.getForObject(
        url, ShopContainer.class);
    

    replace with

    Shop[] response  = restTemplate.getForObject(url, Shop[].class);
    

    and then make your desired object from it.

  2. You can change your server to return an object instead of a list

    return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(list);
    

    replace with

    return mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(
        new ShopContainer(list));
    

Serializing enums with Jackson

Finally I found solution myself.

I had to annotate enum with @JsonSerialize(using = OrderTypeSerializer.class) and implement custom serializer:

public class OrderTypeSerializer extends JsonSerializer<OrderType> {

  @Override
  public void serialize(OrderType value, JsonGenerator generator,
            SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
            JsonProcessingException {

    generator.writeStartObject();
    generator.writeFieldName("id");
    generator.writeNumber(value.getId());
    generator.writeFieldName("name");
    generator.writeString(value.getName());
    generator.writeEndObject();
  }
}

When is the @JsonProperty property used and what is it used for?

Adding the JsonProperty also ensures safety in case someone decides they want to change one of the property names not realizing the class in question will be serialized to a Json object. If they change the property name the JsonProperty ensures it will be used in the Json object, and not the property name.

Jackson - best way writes a java list to a json array

This is overly complicated, Jackson handles lists via its writer methods just as well as it handles regular objects. This should work just fine for you, assuming I have not misunderstood your question:

public void writeListToJsonArray() throws IOException {  
    final List<Event> list = new ArrayList<Event>(2);
    list.add(new Event("a1","a2"));
    list.add(new Event("b1","b2"));

    final ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

    mapper.writeValue(out, list);

    final byte[] data = out.toByteArray();
    System.out.println(new String(data));
}

Set Jackson Timezone for Date deserialization

If you really want Jackson to return a date with another time zone than UTC (and I myself have several good arguments for that, especially when some clients just don't get the timezone part) then I usually do:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("CET"));
mapper.getSerializationConfig().setDateFormat(dateFormat);
// ... etc

It has no adverse effects on those that understand the timezone-p

How to convert the following json string to java object?

Gson is also good for it: http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/

" Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of. "

Check the API examples: https://sites.google.com/site/gson/gson-user-guide#TOC-Overview More examples: http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-do-convert-java-object-to-from-json-format-gson-api/

Jackson JSON: get node name from json-tree

fields() and fieldNames() both were not working for me. And I had to spend quite sometime to find a way to iterate over the keys. There are two ways by which it can be done.

One is by converting it into a map (takes up more space):

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
Map<String, Object> result = mapper.convertValue(jsonNode, Map.class);
for (String key : result.keySet())
{
    if(key.equals(foo))
    {
        //code here
    }
}

Another, by using a String iterator:

Iterator<String> it = jsonNode.getFieldNames();
while (it.hasNext())
{
    String key = it.next();
    if (key.equals(foo))
    {
         //code here
    }
}

JSON parse error: Can not construct instance of java.time.LocalDate: no String-argument constructor/factory method to deserialize from String value

I have just wrestled with this for 3 hours. I credit the answer from Dherik (Bonus material about AMQP) for bringing me within striking distance of MY answer, YMMV.

I registered the JavaTimeModule in my object mapper in my SpringBootApplication like this:

@Bean
@Primary
public ObjectMapper objectMapper(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder) {
    ObjectMapper objectMapper = builder.build();
    objectMapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
    return objectMapper;
}

However my Instants that were coming over the STOMP connection were still not deserialising. Then I realised I had inadvertantly created a MappingJackson2MessageConverter which creates a second ObjectMapper. So I guess the moral of the story is: Are you sure you have adjusted all your ObjectMappers? In my case I replaced the MappingJackson2MessageConverter.objectMapper with the outer version that has the JavaTimeModule registered, and all is well:

@Autowired
ObjectMapper objectMapper;

@Bean
public WebSocketStompClient webSocketStompClient(WebSocketClient webSocketClient,
        StompSessionHandler stompSessionHandler) {
    WebSocketStompClient webSocketStompClient = new WebSocketStompClient(webSocketClient);
    MappingJackson2MessageConverter converter = new MappingJackson2MessageConverter();
    converter.setObjectMapper(objectMapper);
    webSocketStompClient.setMessageConverter(converter);
    webSocketStompClient.connect("http://localhost:8080/myapp", stompSessionHandler);
    return webSocketStompClient;
}

Jackson how to transform JsonNode to ArrayNode without casting?

Yes, the Jackson manual parser design is quite different from other libraries. In particular, you will notice that JsonNode has most of the functions that you would typically associate with array nodes from other API's. As such, you do not need to cast to an ArrayNode to use. Here's an example:

JSON:

{
    "objects" : ["One", "Two", "Three"]
}

Code:

final String json = "{\"objects\" : [\"One\", \"Two\", \"Three\"]}";

final JsonNode arrNode = new ObjectMapper().readTree(json).get("objects");
if (arrNode.isArray()) {
    for (final JsonNode objNode : arrNode) {
        System.out.println(objNode);
    }
}

Output:

"One"
"Two"
"Three"

Note the use of isArray to verify that the node is actually an array before iterating. The check is not necessary if you are absolutely confident in your datas structure, but its available should you need it (and this is no different from most other JSON libraries).

Java to Jackson JSON serialization: Money fields

Inspired by Steve, and as the updates for Java 11. Here's how we did the BigDecimal reformatting to avoid scientific notation.

public class PriceSerializer extends JsonSerializer<BigDecimal> {
    @Override
    public void serialize(BigDecimal value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException {
        // Using writNumber and removing toString make sure the output is number but not String.
        jgen.writeNumber(value.setScale(2, RoundingMode.HALF_UP));
    }
}

Jackson Vs. Gson

Jackson and Gson are the most complete Java JSON packages regarding actual data binding support; many other packages only provide primitive Map/List (or equivalent tree model) binding. Both have complete support for generic types, as well, as enough configurability for many common use cases.

Since I am more familiar with Jackson, here are some aspects where I think Jackson has more complete support than Gson (apologies if I miss a Gson feature):

  • Extensive annotation support; including full inheritance, and advanced "mix-in" annotations (associate annotations with a class for cases where you can not directly add them)
  • Streaming (incremental) reading, writing, for ultra-high performance (or memory-limited) use cases; can mix with data binding (bind sub-trees) -- EDIT: latest versions of Gson also include streaming reader
  • Tree model (DOM-like access); can convert between various models (tree <-> java object <-> stream)
  • Can use any constructors (or static factory methods), not just default constructor
  • Field and getter/setter access (earlier gson versions only used fields, this may have changed)
  • Out-of-box JAX-RS support
  • Interoperability: can also use JAXB annotations, has support/work-arounds for common packages (joda, ibatis, cglib), JVM languages (groovy, clojure, scala)
  • Ability to force static (declared) type handling for output
  • Support for deserializing polymorphic types (Jackson 1.5) -- can serialize AND deserialize things like List correctly (with additional type information)
  • Integrated support for binary content (base64 to/from JSON Strings)

How to specify jackson to only use fields - preferably globally

If you use Spring Boot, you can configure Jackson globally as follows:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jackson.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder;

@Configuration
public class JacksonObjectMapperConfiguration implements Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer {

    @Override
    public void customize(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonObjectMapperBuilder) {
        jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.visibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE);
        jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.visibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
        jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.visibility(PropertyAccessor.CREATOR, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
    }

}

Should I declare Jackson's ObjectMapper as a static field?

Although it is safe to declare a static ObjectMapper in terms of thread safety, you should be aware that constructing static Object variables in Java is considered bad practice. For more details, see Why are static variables considered evil? (and if you'd like, my answer)

In short, statics should be avoided because the make it difficult to write concise unit tests. For example, with a static final ObjectMapper, you can't swap out the JSON serialization for dummy code or a no-op.

In addition, a static final prevents you from ever reconfiguring ObjectMapper at runtime. You might not envision a reason for that now, but if you lock yourself into a static final pattern, nothing short of tearing down the classloader will let you re-initialize it.

In the case of ObjectMapper its fine, but in general it is bad practice and there is no advantage over using a singleton pattern or inversion-of-control to manage your long-lived objects.

Date format Mapping to JSON Jackson

To add characters such as T and Z in your date

@JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'")
private Date currentTime;

output

{
    "currentTime": "2019-12-11T11:40:49Z"
}

Parsing JSON in Java without knowing JSON format

Would you be satisfied with a Map from Jackson?

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
Map<String, Object> map = objectMapper.readValue(jsonString, new TypeReference<HashMap<String,Object>>(){});

Or maybe a JsonNode?

JsonNode jsonNode = objectMapper.readTree(String jsonString) 

Different names of JSON property during serialization and deserialization

It's possible to have normal getter/setter pair. You just need to specify access mode in @JsonProperty

Here is unit test for that:

public class JsonPropertyTest {

  private static class TestJackson {

    private String color;

    @JsonProperty(value = "device_color", access = JsonProperty.Access.READ_ONLY)
    public String getColor() {
      return color;
    };

    @JsonProperty(value = "color", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
    public void setColor(String color) {
      this.color = color;
    }

  }

  @Test
  public void shouldParseWithAccessModeSpecified() throws Exception {
    String colorJson = "{\"color\":\"red\"}";
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    TestJackson colotObject = mapper.readValue(colorJson, TestJackson.class);

    String ser = mapper.writeValueAsString(colotObject);
    System.out.println("Serialized colotObject: " + ser);
  }
}

I got the output as follows:

Serialized colotObject: {"device_color":"red"}

How do I use a custom Serializer with Jackson?

I wrote an example for a custom Timestamp.class serialization/deserialization, but you could use it for what ever you want.

When creating the object mapper do something like this:

public class JsonUtils {

    public static ObjectMapper objectMapper = null;

    static {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        SimpleModule s = new SimpleModule();
        s.addSerializer(Timestamp.class, new TimestampSerializerTypeHandler());
        s.addDeserializer(Timestamp.class, new TimestampDeserializerTypeHandler());
        objectMapper.registerModule(s);
    };
}

for example in java ee you could initialize it with this:

import java.time.LocalDateTime;

import javax.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;

@Provider
public class JacksonConfig implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> {

    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper;

    public JacksonConfig() {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        SimpleModule s = new SimpleModule();
        s.addSerializer(Timestamp.class, new TimestampSerializerTypeHandler());
        s.addDeserializer(Timestamp.class, new TimestampDeserializerTypeHandler());
        objectMapper.registerModule(s);
    };

    @Override
    public ObjectMapper getContext(Class<?> type) {
        return objectMapper;
    }
}

where the serializer should be something like this:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.Timestamp;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;

public class TimestampSerializerTypeHandler extends JsonSerializer<Timestamp> {

    @Override
    public void serialize(Timestamp value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        String stringValue = value.toString();
        if(stringValue != null && !stringValue.isEmpty() && !stringValue.equals("null")) {
            jgen.writeString(stringValue);
        } else {
            jgen.writeNull();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Class<Timestamp> handledType() {
        return Timestamp.class;
    }
}

and deserializer something like this:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.Timestamp;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;

public class TimestampDeserializerTypeHandler extends JsonDeserializer<Timestamp> {

    @Override
    public Timestamp deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ds) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        SqlTimestampConverter s = new SqlTimestampConverter();
        String value = jp.getValueAsString();
        if(value != null && !value.isEmpty() && !value.equals("null"))
            return (Timestamp) s.convert(Timestamp.class, value);
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Class<Timestamp> handledType() {
        return Timestamp.class;
    }
}

Convert JSON String to Pretty Print JSON output using Jackson

For Jackson 1.9, We can use the following code for pretty print.

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.enable(SerializationConfig.Feature.INDENT_OUTPUT);

Correct set of dependencies for using Jackson mapper

The package names in Jackson 2.x got changed to com.fasterxml1 from org.codehaus2. So if you just need ObjectMapper, I think Jackson 1.X can satisfy with your needs.

how to create insert new nodes in JsonNode?

I've recently found even more interesting way to create any ValueNode or ContainerNode (Jackson v2.3).

ObjectNode node = JsonNodeFactory.instance.objectNode();

Cannot construct instance of - Jackson

Your @JsonSubTypes declaration does not make sense: it needs to list implementation (sub-) classes, NOT the class itself (which would be pointless). So you need to modify that entry to list sub-class(es) there are; or use some other mechanism to register sub-classes (SimpleModule has something like addAbstractTypeMapping).

how to convert JSONArray to List of Object using camel-jackson

I had similar json response coming from client. Created one main list class, and one POJO class.

Jackson overcoming underscores in favor of camel-case

There are few answers here indicating both strategies for 2 different versions of Jackson library below:

For Jackson 2.6.*

ObjectMapper objMapper = new ObjectMapper(new JsonFactory()); // or YAMLFactory()
objMapper.setNamingStrategy(
     PropertyNamingStrategy.CAMEL_CASE_TO_LOWER_CASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES);

For Jackson 2.7.*

ObjectMapper objMapper = new ObjectMapper(new JsonFactory()); // or YAMLFactory()
objMapper.setNamingStrategy(
     PropertyNamingStrategy.SNAKE_CASE);

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.LinkedHashMap cannot be cast to com.testing.models.Account

Solve problem with two method parse common

  1. Whith type is an object
public <T> T jsonToObject(String json, Class<T> type) {
        T target = null;
        try {
            target = objectMapper.readValue(json, type);
        } catch (Jsenter code hereonProcessingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    
        return target;
    }
  1. With type is collection wrap object
public <T> T jsonToObject(String json, TypeReference<T> type) {
    T target = null;
    try {
        target = objectMapper.readValue(json, type);
    } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return target;
}

Deserialize JSON to ArrayList<POJO> using Jackson

This works for me.

@Test
public void cloneTest() {
    List<Part> parts = new ArrayList<Part>();
    Part part1 = new Part(1);
    parts.add(part1);
    Part part2 = new Part(2);
    parts.add(part2);
    try {
        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        String jsonStr = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(parts);

        List<Part> cloneParts = objectMapper.readValue(jsonStr, new TypeReference<ArrayList<Part>>() {});
    } catch (Exception e) {
        //fail("failed.");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    //TODO: Assert: compare both list values.
}

No Creators, like default construct, exist): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator

If you are using LOMBOK. Create a file lombok.config if you don't have one and add this line.

lombok.anyconstructor.addconstructorproperties=true

How to serialize Joda DateTime with Jackson JSON processor?

As @Kimble has said, with Jackson 2, using the default formatting is very easy; simply register JodaModule on your ObjectMapper.

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.registerModule(new JodaModule());

For custom serialization/de-serialization of DateTime, you need to implement your own StdScalarSerializer and StdScalarDeserializer; it's pretty convoluted, but anyway.

For example, here's a DateTime serializer that uses the ISODateFormat with the UTC time zone:

public class DateTimeSerializer extends StdScalarSerializer<DateTime> {

    public DateTimeSerializer() {
        super(DateTime.class);
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(DateTime dateTime,
                          JsonGenerator jsonGenerator,
                          SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException, JsonGenerationException {
        String dateTimeAsString = ISODateTimeFormat.withZoneUTC().print(dateTime);
        jsonGenerator.writeString(dateTimeAsString);
    }
}

And the corresponding de-serializer:

public class DateTimeDesrializer extends StdScalarDeserializer<DateTime> {

    public DateTimeDesrializer() {
        super(DateTime.class);
    }

    @Override
    public DateTime deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser,
                                DeserializationContext deserializationContext) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        try {
            JsonToken currentToken = jsonParser.getCurrentToken();
            if (currentToken == JsonToken.VALUE_STRING) {
                String dateTimeAsString = jsonParser.getText().trim();
                return ISODateTimeFormat.withZoneUTC().parseDateTime(dateTimeAsString);
            }
        } finally {
            throw deserializationContext.mappingException(getValueClass());
        }
    }

Then tie these together with a module:

public class DateTimeModule extends SimpleModule {

    public DateTimeModule() {
        super();
        addSerializer(DateTime.class, new DateTimeSerializer());
        addDeserializer(DateTime.class, new DateTimeDeserializer());
    }
}

Then register the module on your ObjectMapper:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.registerModule(new DateTimeModule());

How to convert JSON string into List of Java object?

StudentList studentList = mapper.readValue(jsonString,StudentList.class);

Change this to this one

StudentList studentList = mapper.readValue(jsonString, new TypeReference<List<Student>>(){});

Convert Map to JSON using Jackson

Using jackson, you can do it as follows:

    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    String clientFilterJson = "";
    try {
        clientFilterJson = mapper.writeValueAsString(filterSaveModel);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Spring REST Service: how to configure to remove null objects in json response

Since Jackson is being used, you have to configure that as a Jackson property. In the case of Spring Boot REST services, you have to configure it in application.properties or application.yml:

spring.jackson.default-property-inclusion = NON_NULL

source

Jackson serialization: ignore empty values (or null)

Code bellow may help if you want to exclude boolean type from serialization either:

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_ABSENT)

Right way to write JSON deserializer in Spring or extend it

With Spring MVC 4.2.1.RELEASE, you need to use the new Jackson2 dependencies as below for the Deserializer to work.

Dont use this

<dependency>  
            <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>  
            <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>  
            <version>1.9.12</version>  
        </dependency>  

Use this instead.

<dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.2</version>
        </dependency>  

Also use com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer and com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize for the deserialization and not the classes from org.codehaus.jackson

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return value of type

I faced the same problem but I was using Lombok and my UploadFileResponse pojo was a builder.

public ResponseEntity<UploadFileResponse> 

To solve I added @Getter annotation:

@Builder
@NoArgsConstructor
@AllArgsConstructor
@Getter
public class UploadFileResponse

Jackson: how to prevent field serialization

Jackson has a class named SimpleBeanPropertyFilter that helps to filter fields during serialization and deserialization; not globally. I think that's what you wanted.

@JsonFilter("custom_serializer")
class User {
    private String password;

    //setter, getter..
}

Then in your code:

String[] fieldsToSkip = new String[] { "password" };

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

final SimpleFilterProvider filter = new SimpleFilterProvider();
filter.addFilter("custom_serializer",
            SimpleBeanPropertyFilter.serializeAllExcept(fieldsToSkip));

mapper.setFilters(filter);

String jsonStr = mapper.writeValueAsString(currentUser);

This will prevent password field to get serialized. Also you will be able to deserialize password fields as it is. Just make sure no filters are applied on the ObjectMapper object.

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
User user = mapper.readValue(yourJsonStr, User.class);    // user object does have non-null password field

Representing null in JSON

According to the JSON spec, the outermost container does not have to be a dictionary (or 'object') as implied in most of the comments above. It can also be a list or a bare value (i.e. string, number, boolean or null). If you want to represent a null value in JSON, the entire JSON string (excluding the quotes containing the JSON string) is simply null. No braces, no brackets, no quotes. You could specify a dictionary containing a key with a null value ({"key1":null}), or a list with a null value ([null]), but these are not null values themselves - they are proper dictionaries and lists. Similarly, an empty dictionary ({}) or an empty list ([]) are perfectly fine, but aren't null either.

In Python:

>>> print json.loads('{"key1":null}')
{u'key1': None}
>>> print json.loads('[null]')
[None]
>>> print json.loads('[]')
[]
>>> print json.loads('{}')
{}
>>> print json.loads('null')
None

Ignoring new fields on JSON objects using Jackson

In addition to 2 mechanisms already mentioned, there is also global feature that can be used to suppress all failures caused by unknown (unmapped) properties:

// jackson 1.9 and before
objectMapper.configure(DeserializationConfig.Feature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
// or jackson 2.0
objectMapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);

This is the default used in absence of annotations, and can be convenient fallback.

Serializing with Jackson (JSON) - getting "No serializer found"?

Though I added getters and setters I was getting the same error. Later I found a bug, that is by Sonar's advice I cgahnged the getters and setters as protected which was causing the issue. Once I fixed that it worked as exppected.

Deserialize Java 8 LocalDateTime with JacksonMapper

This worked for me :

import org.springframework.format.annotation.DateTimeFormat;
import org.springframework.format.annotation.DateTimeFormat.ISO;

@Column(name="end_date", nullable = false)
@DateTimeFormat(iso = ISO.DATE_TIME)
@JsonFormat(pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")
private LocalDateTime endDate;

How to parse a JSON string to an array using Jackson

I sorted this problem by verifying the json on JSONLint.com and then using Jackson. Below is the code for the same.

 Main Class:-

String jsonStr = "[{\r\n" + "       \"name\": \"John\",\r\n" + "        \"city\": \"Berlin\",\r\n"
                + "         \"cars\": [\r\n" + "            \"FIAT\",\r\n" + "          \"Toyata\"\r\n"
                + "     ],\r\n" + "     \"job\": \"Teacher\"\r\n" + "   },\r\n" + " {\r\n"
                + "     \"name\": \"Mark\",\r\n" + "        \"city\": \"Oslo\",\r\n" + "        \"cars\": [\r\n"
                + "         \"VW\",\r\n" + "            \"Toyata\"\r\n" + "     ],\r\n"
                + "     \"job\": \"Doctor\"\r\n" + "    }\r\n" + "]";

        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

        MyPojo jsonObj[] = mapper.readValue(jsonStr, MyPojo[].class);

        for (MyPojo itr : jsonObj) {

            System.out.println("Val of getName is: " + itr.getName());
            System.out.println("Val of getCity is: " + itr.getCity());
            System.out.println("Val of getJob is: " + itr.getJob());
            System.out.println("Val of getCars is: " + itr.getCars() + "\n");

        }

POJO:

public class MyPojo {

private List<String> cars = new ArrayList<String>();

private String name;

private String job;

private String city;

public List<String> getCars() {
    return cars;
}

public void setCars(List<String> cars) {
    this.cars = cars;
}

public String getName() {
    return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}

public String getJob() {
    return job;
}

public void setJob(String job) {
    this.job = job;
}

public String getCity() {
    return city;
}

public void setCity(String city) {
    this.city = city;
} }

  RESULT:-
         Val of getName is: John
         Val of getCity is: Berlin
         Val of getJob is: Teacher
         Val of getCars is: [FIAT, Toyata]

          Val of getName is: Mark
          Val of getCity is: Oslo
          Val of getJob is: Doctor
          Val of getCars is: [VW, Toyata]

How can I tell jackson to ignore a property for which I don't have control over the source code?

Annotation based approach is better. But sometimes manual operation is needed. For this purpose you can use without method of ObjectWriter.

ObjectMapper mapper   = new ObjectMapper().configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
ObjectWriter writer   = mapper.writer().withoutAttribute("property1").withoutAttribute("property2");
String       jsonText = writer.writeValueAsString(sourceObject);

Infinite Recursion with Jackson JSON and Hibernate JPA issue

I also met the same problem. I used @JsonIdentityInfo's ObjectIdGenerators.PropertyGenerator.class generator type.

That's my solution:

@Entity
@Table(name = "ta_trainee", uniqueConstraints = {@UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"id"})})
@JsonIdentityInfo(generator = ObjectIdGenerators.PropertyGenerator.class, property = "id")
public class Trainee extends BusinessObject {
...

Deserialize JSON with Jackson into Polymorphic Types - A Complete Example is giving me a compile error

A simple way to enable polymorphic serialization / deserialization via Jackson library is to globally configure the Jackson object mapper (jackson.databind.ObjectMapper) to add information, such as the concrete class type, for certain kinds of classes, such as abstract classes.

To do that, just make sure your mapper is configured correctly. For example:

Option 1: Support polymorphic serialization / deserialization for abstract classes (and Object typed classes)

jacksonObjectMapper.enableDefaultTyping(
    ObjectMapper.DefaultTyping.OBJECT_AND_NON_CONCRETE); 

Option 2: Support polymorphic serialization / deserialization for abstract classes (and Object typed classes), and arrays of those types.

jacksonObjectMapper.enableDefaultTyping(
    ObjectMapper.DefaultTyping.NON_CONCRETE_AND_ARRAYS); 

Reference: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-docs/wiki/JacksonPolymorphicDeserialization

Jackson JSON custom serialization for certain fields

with the help of @JsonView we can decide fields of model classes to serialize which satisfy the minimal criteria ( we have to define the criteria) like we can have one core class with 10 properties but only 5 properties can be serialize which are needful for client only

Define our Views by simply creating following class:

public class Views
{
    static class Android{};
    static class IOS{};
    static class Web{};
}

Annotated model class with views:

public class Demo 
{
    public Demo() 
    {
    }

@JsonView(Views.IOS.class)
private String iosField;

@JsonView(Views.Android.class)
private String androidField;

@JsonView(Views.Web.class)
private String webField;

 // getters/setters
...
..
}

Now we have to write custom json converter by simply extending HttpMessageConverter class from spring as:

    public class CustomJacksonConverter implements HttpMessageConverter<Object> 
    {
    public CustomJacksonConverter() 
        {
            super();
        //this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setConfig(this.delegate.getObjectMapper().getSerializationConfig().withView(Views.ClientView.class));
        this.delegate.getObjectMapper().configure(MapperFeature.DEFAULT_VIEW_INCLUSION, true);
        this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setSerializationInclusion(Include.NON_NULL);

    }

    // a real message converter that will respond to methods and do the actual work
    private MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter delegate = new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter();

    @Override
    public boolean canRead(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType) {
        return delegate.canRead(clazz, mediaType);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canWrite(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType) {
        return delegate.canWrite(clazz, mediaType);
    }

    @Override
    public List<MediaType> getSupportedMediaTypes() {
        return delegate.getSupportedMediaTypes();
    }

    @Override
    public Object read(Class<? extends Object> clazz,
            HttpInputMessage inputMessage) throws IOException,
            HttpMessageNotReadableException {
        return delegate.read(clazz, inputMessage);
    }

    @Override
    public void write(Object obj, MediaType contentType, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage) throws IOException, HttpMessageNotWritableException 
    {
        synchronized(this) 
        {
            String userAgent = ((ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()).getRequest().getHeader("userAgent");
            if ( userAgent != null ) 
            {
                switch (userAgent) 
                {
                case "IOS" :
                    this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setConfig(this.delegate.getObjectMapper().getSerializationConfig().withView(Views.IOS.class));
                    break;
                case "Android" :
                    this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setConfig(this.delegate.getObjectMapper().getSerializationConfig().withView(Views.Android.class));
                    break;
                case "Web" :
                    this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setConfig(this.delegate.getObjectMapper().getSerializationConfig().withView( Views.Web.class));
                    break;
                default:
                    this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setConfig(this.delegate.getObjectMapper().getSerializationConfig().withView( null ));
                    break;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                // reset to default view
                this.delegate.getObjectMapper().setConfig(this.delegate.getObjectMapper().getSerializationConfig().withView( null ));
            }
            delegate.write(obj, contentType, outputMessage);
        }
    }

}

Now there is need to tell spring to use this custom json convert by simply putting this in dispatcher-servlet.xml

<mvc:annotation-driven>
        <mvc:message-converters register-defaults="true">
            <bean id="jsonConverter" class="com.mactores.org.CustomJacksonConverter" >
            </bean>
        </mvc:message-converters>
    </mvc:annotation-driven>

That's how you will able to decide which fields to get serialize.

Can not deserialize instance of java.util.ArrayList out of VALUE_STRING

from Jackson 2.7.x+ there is a way to annotate the member variable itself:

 @JsonFormat(with = JsonFormat.Feature.ACCEPT_SINGLE_VALUE_AS_ARRAY)
 private List<String> newsletters;

More info here: Jackson @JsonFormat

jackson deserialization json to java-objects

You have to change the line

product userFromJSON = mapper.readValue(userDataJSON, product.class);

to

product[] userFromJSON = mapper.readValue(userDataJSON, product[].class);

since you are deserializing an array (btw: you should start your class names with upper case letters as mentioned earlier). Additionally you have to create setter methods for your fields or mark them as public in order to make this work.

Edit: You can also go with Steven Schlansker's suggestion and use

List<product> userFromJSON =
        mapper.readValue(userDataJSON, new TypeReference<List<product>>() {});

instead if you want to avoid arrays.

Jackson - Deserialize using generic class

Just write a static method in Util class. I am reading a Json from a file. you can give String also to readValue

public static <T> T convertJsonToPOJO(String filePath, Class<?> target) throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        return objectMapper.readValue(new File(filePath), objectMapper .getTypeFactory().constructCollectionType(List.class, Class.forName(target.getName())));
}

Usage:

List<TaskBean> list =  Util.<List<TaskBean>>convertJsonToPOJO("E:/J2eeWorkspaces/az_workspace_svn/az-client-service/dir1/dir2/filename.json", TaskBean.class);

Jackson with JSON: Unrecognized field, not marked as ignorable

You can use Jackson's class-level annotation:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties

@JsonIgnoreProperties
class { ... }

It will ignore every property you haven't defined in your POJO. Very useful when you are just looking for a couple of properties in the JSON and don't want to write the whole mapping. More info at Jackson's website. If you want to ignore any non declared property, you should write:

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)

JsonParseException: Unrecognized token 'http': was expecting ('true', 'false' or 'null')

We have the following string which is a valid JSON ...

Clearly the JSON parser disagrees!

However, the exception says that the error is at "line 1: column 9", and there is no "http" token near the beginning of the JSON. So I suspect that the parser is trying to parse something different than this string when the error occurs.

You need to find what JSON is actually being parsed. Run the application within a debugger, set a breakpoint on the relevant constructor for JsonParseException ... then find out what is in the ByteArrayInputStream that it is attempting to parse.

How to convert a JSON string to a Map<String, String> with Jackson JSON

[Update Sept 2020] Although my original answer here, from many years ago, seems to be helpful and is still getting upvotes, I now use the GSON library from Google, which I find to be more intuitive.

I've got the following code:

public void testJackson() throws IOException {  
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); 
    File from = new File("albumnList.txt"); 
    TypeReference<HashMap<String,Object>> typeRef 
            = new TypeReference<HashMap<String,Object>>() {};

    HashMap<String,Object> o = mapper.readValue(from, typeRef); 
    System.out.println("Got " + o); 
}   

It's reading from a file, but mapper.readValue() will also accept an InputStream and you can obtain an InputStream from a string by using the following:

new ByteArrayInputStream(astring.getBytes("UTF-8")); 

There's a bit more explanation about the mapper on my blog.

Required request body content is missing: org.springframework.web.method.HandlerMethod$HandlerMethodParameter

If it's working from Postman, try new Spring version, becouse the 'org.springframework.boot' 2.2.2.RELEASE version can throw "Required request body content is missing" exception.
Try 2.2.6.RELEASE version.

Configuring ObjectMapper in Spring

SOLUTION 1

First working solution (tested) useful especially when using @EnableWebMvc:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
    @Autowired
    private ObjectMapper objectMapper;// created elsewhere
    @Override
    public void extendMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        // this won't add a 2nd MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter 
        // as the SOLUTION 2 is doing but also might seem complicated
        converters.stream().filter(c -> c instanceof MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter).forEach(c -> {
            // check default included objectMapper._registeredModuleTypes,
            // e.g. Jdk8Module, JavaTimeModule when creating the ObjectMapper
            // without Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder
            ((MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter) c).setObjectMapper(this.objectMapper);
        });
    }

SOLUTION 2

Of course the common approach below works too (also working with @EnableWebMvc):

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
    @Autowired
    private ObjectMapper objectMapper;// created elsewhere
    @Override
    public void extendMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        // this will add a 2nd MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter 
        // (additional to the default one) but will work and you 
        // won't lose the default converters as you'll do when overwriting
        // configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters)
        // 
        // you still have to check default included
        // objectMapper._registeredModuleTypes, e.g.
        // Jdk8Module, JavaTimeModule when creating the ObjectMapper
        // without Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder
        converters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(this.objectMapper));
    }

Why @EnableWebMvc usage is a problem?

@EnableWebMvc is using DelegatingWebMvcConfiguration which extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport which does this:

if (jackson2Present) {
    Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder = Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json();
    if (this.applicationContext != null) {
        builder.applicationContext(this.applicationContext);
    }
    messageConverters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(builder.build()));
}

which means that there's no way of injecting your own ObjectMapper with the purpose of preparing it to be used for creating the default MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter when using @EnableWebMvc.

Can not deserialize instance of java.util.ArrayList out of START_OBJECT token

After struggling with this thing for WAY too long, here is the super easy solution.

My controller was looking for

@RequestBody List<String> ids

and I had the request body as

{
    "ids": [
        "1234",
        "5678"
     ]
}

and the solution was to change the body simply to

["1234", "5678"]

Yup. Just that easy.

receiving json and deserializing as List of object at spring mvc controller

Solution works very well,

public List<String> savePerson(@RequestBody Person[] personArray)  

For this signature you can pass Person array from postman like

[
{
  "empId": "10001",
  "tier": "Single",
  "someting": 6,
  "anything": 0,
  "frequency": "Quaterly"
}, {
  "empId": "10001",
  "tier": "Single",
  "someting": 6,
  "anything": 0,
  "frequency": "Quaterly"
}
]

Don't forget to add consumes tag:

@RequestMapping(value = "/getEmployeeList", method = RequestMethod.POST, consumes="application/json", produces = "application/json")
public List<Employee> getEmployeeDataList(@RequestBody Employee[] employeearray) { ... }

Convert JsonNode into POJO

String jsonInput = "{ \"hi\": \"Assume this is the JSON\"} ";
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper mapper =
    new com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper();
MyClass myObject = objectMapper.readValue(jsonInput, MyClass.class);

If your JSON input in has more properties than your POJO has and you just want to ignore the extras in Jackson 2.4, you can configure your ObjectMapper as follows. This syntax is different from older Jackson versions. (If you use the wrong syntax, it will silently do nothing.)

mapper.disable(com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNK??NOWN_PROPERTIES);

Spring configure @ResponseBody JSON format

I needeed to solve very similar problem, which is configuring Jackson Mapper to "Do not serialize null values for Christ's sake!!!".

I didn't want to leave fancy mvc:annotation-driven tag, so I found, how to configure Jackson's ObjectMapper without removing mvc:annotation-driven and adding not really fancy ContentNegotiatingViewResolver.

The beautiful thing is that you don't have to write any Java code yourself!

And here is the XML configuration (don't be confused with different namespaces of Jackson classes, I simply used new Jakson 2.x library ... the same should also work with Jackson 1.x libraries):

<mvc:annotation-driven>
    <mvc:message-converters register-defaults="true">
        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
            <property name="objectMapper">
                <bean class="com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper">
                    <property name="serializationInclusion">
                        <value type="com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include">NON_NULL</value>
                    </property>
                </bean>
            </property>
        </bean>
    </mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>

serialize/deserialize java 8 java.time with Jackson JSON mapper

If you're having this issue because of GraphQL Java Tools and trying to marshal an Java Instant from a date string, you need to setup your SchemaParser to use an ObjectMapper with certain configurations:

In your GraphQLSchemaBuilder class, inject ObjectMapper and add this modules:

        ObjectMapper objectMapper = 
    new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new JavaTimeModule())
            .configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);

and add it to the options:

final SchemaParserOptions options = SchemaParserOptions.newOptions()
            .objectMapperProvider(fieldDefinition -> objectMapper)
            .typeDefinitionFactory(new YourTypeDefinitionFactory())
            .build();

See https://github.com/graphql-java-kickstart/graphql-spring-boot/issues/32

How to pass boolean parameter value in pipeline to downstream jobs?

Things are much easier nowadays: the builtin Snippet Generator supports the 'build' step (I don't know since when though).

How to read .pem file to get private and public key

One option is to use bouncycastle's PEMParser:

Class for parsing OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X509 certificates, PKCS8 encoded keys and PKCS7 objects.

In the case of PKCS7 objects the reader will return a CMS ContentInfo object. Public keys will be returned as well formed SubjectPublicKeyInfo objects, private keys will be returned as well formed PrivateKeyInfo objects. In the case of a private key a PEMKeyPair will normally be returned if the encoding contains both the private and public key definition. CRLs, Certificates, PKCS#10 requests, and Attribute Certificates will generate the appropriate BC holder class.

Here is an example of using the Parser test code:

package org.bouncycastle.openssl.test;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.KeyPair;
import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;
import java.security.PrivateKey;
import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.Security;
import java.security.Signature;
import java.security.interfaces.DSAPrivateKey;
import java.security.interfaces.RSAPrivateCrtKey;
import java.security.interfaces.RSAPrivateKey;

import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1ObjectIdentifier;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.cms.CMSObjectIdentifiers;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.cms.ContentInfo;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs.PrivateKeyInfo;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.SubjectPublicKeyInfo;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x9.ECNamedCurveTable;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x9.X9ECParameters;
import org.bouncycastle.cert.X509CertificateHolder;
import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMDecryptorProvider;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMEncryptedKeyPair;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMKeyPair;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMWriter;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.PasswordFinder;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.jcajce.JcaPEMKeyConverter;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.jcajce.JceOpenSSLPKCS8DecryptorProviderBuilder;
import org.bouncycastle.openssl.jcajce.JcePEMDecryptorProviderBuilder;
import org.bouncycastle.operator.InputDecryptorProvider;
import org.bouncycastle.pkcs.PKCS8EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo;
import org.bouncycastle.util.test.SimpleTest;

/**
 * basic class for reading test.pem - the password is "secret"
 */
public class ParserTest
    extends SimpleTest
{
    private static class Password
        implements PasswordFinder
    {
        char[]  password;

        Password(
            char[] word)
        {
            this.password = word;
        }

        public char[] getPassword()
        {
            return password;
        }
    }

    public String getName()
    {
        return "PEMParserTest";
    }

    private PEMParser openPEMResource(
        String          fileName)
    {
        InputStream res = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName);
        Reader fRd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(res));
        return new PEMParser(fRd);
    }

    public void performTest()
        throws Exception
    {
        PEMParser       pemRd = openPEMResource("test.pem");
        Object          o;
        PEMKeyPair      pemPair;
        KeyPair         pair;

        while ((o = pemRd.readObject()) != null)
        {
            if (o instanceof KeyPair)
            {
                //pair = (KeyPair)o;

                //System.out.println(pair.getPublic());
                //System.out.println(pair.getPrivate());
            }
            else
            {
                //System.out.println(o.toString());
            }
        }

        // test bogus lines before begin are ignored.
        pemRd = openPEMResource("extratest.pem");

        while ((o = pemRd.readObject()) != null)
        {
            if (!(o instanceof X509CertificateHolder))
            {
                fail("wrong object found");
            }
        }

        //
        // pkcs 7 data
        //
        pemRd = openPEMResource("pkcs7.pem");
        ContentInfo d = (ContentInfo)pemRd.readObject();

        if (!d.getContentType().equals(CMSObjectIdentifiers.envelopedData))
        {
            fail("failed envelopedData check");
        }

        //
        // ECKey
        //
        pemRd = openPEMResource("eckey.pem");
        ASN1ObjectIdentifier ecOID = (ASN1ObjectIdentifier)pemRd.readObject();
        X9ECParameters ecSpec = ECNamedCurveTable.getByOID(ecOID);

        if (ecSpec == null)
        {
            fail("ecSpec not found for named curve");
        }

        pemPair = (PEMKeyPair)pemRd.readObject();

        pair = new JcaPEMKeyConverter().setProvider("BC").getKeyPair(pemPair);

        Signature sgr = Signature.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");

        sgr.initSign(pair.getPrivate());

        byte[] message = new byte[] { (byte)'a', (byte)'b', (byte)'c' };

        sgr.update(message);

        byte[]  sigBytes = sgr.sign();

        sgr.initVerify(pair.getPublic());

        sgr.update(message);

        if (!sgr.verify(sigBytes))
        {
            fail("EC verification failed");
        }

        if (!pair.getPublic().getAlgorithm().equals("ECDSA"))
        {
            fail("wrong algorithm name on public got: " + pair.getPublic().getAlgorithm());
        }

        if (!pair.getPrivate().getAlgorithm().equals("ECDSA"))
        {
            fail("wrong algorithm name on private");
        }

        //
        // ECKey -- explicit parameters
        //
        pemRd = openPEMResource("ecexpparam.pem");
        ecSpec = (X9ECParameters)pemRd.readObject();

        pemPair = (PEMKeyPair)pemRd.readObject();

        pair = new JcaPEMKeyConverter().setProvider("BC").getKeyPair(pemPair);

        sgr = Signature.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");

        sgr.initSign(pair.getPrivate());

        message = new byte[] { (byte)'a', (byte)'b', (byte)'c' };

        sgr.update(message);

        sigBytes = sgr.sign();

        sgr.initVerify(pair.getPublic());

        sgr.update(message);

        if (!sgr.verify(sigBytes))
        {
            fail("EC verification failed");
        }

        if (!pair.getPublic().getAlgorithm().equals("ECDSA"))
        {
            fail("wrong algorithm name on public got: " + pair.getPublic().getAlgorithm());
        }

        if (!pair.getPrivate().getAlgorithm().equals("ECDSA"))
        {
            fail("wrong algorithm name on private");
        }

        //
        // writer/parser test
        //
        KeyPairGenerator      kpGen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA", "BC");

        pair = kpGen.generateKeyPair();

        keyPairTest("RSA", pair);

        kpGen = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("DSA", "BC");
        kpGen.initialize(512, new SecureRandom());
        pair = kpGen.generateKeyPair();

        keyPairTest("DSA", pair);

        //
        // PKCS7
        //
        ByteArrayOutputStream bOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        PEMWriter             pWrt = new PEMWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(bOut));

        pWrt.writeObject(d);

        pWrt.close();

        pemRd = new PEMParser(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(bOut.toByteArray())));
        d = (ContentInfo)pemRd.readObject();

        if (!d.getContentType().equals(CMSObjectIdentifiers.envelopedData))
        {
            fail("failed envelopedData recode check");
        }


        // OpenSSL test cases (as embedded resources)
        doOpenSslDsaTest("unencrypted");
        doOpenSslRsaTest("unencrypted");

        doOpenSslTests("aes128");
        doOpenSslTests("aes192");
        doOpenSslTests("aes256");
        doOpenSslTests("blowfish");
        doOpenSslTests("des1");
        doOpenSslTests("des2");
        doOpenSslTests("des3");
        doOpenSslTests("rc2_128");

        doOpenSslDsaTest("rc2_40_cbc");
        doOpenSslRsaTest("rc2_40_cbc");
        doOpenSslDsaTest("rc2_64_cbc");
        doOpenSslRsaTest("rc2_64_cbc");

        doDudPasswordTest("7fd98", 0, "corrupted stream - out of bounds length found");
        doDudPasswordTest("ef677", 1, "corrupted stream - out of bounds length found");
        doDudPasswordTest("800ce", 2, "unknown tag 26 encountered");
        doDudPasswordTest("b6cd8", 3, "DEF length 81 object truncated by 56");
        doDudPasswordTest("28ce09", 4, "DEF length 110 object truncated by 28");
        doDudPasswordTest("2ac3b9", 5, "DER length more than 4 bytes: 11");
        doDudPasswordTest("2cba96", 6, "DEF length 100 object truncated by 35");
        doDudPasswordTest("2e3354", 7, "DEF length 42 object truncated by 9");
        doDudPasswordTest("2f4142", 8, "DER length more than 4 bytes: 14");
        doDudPasswordTest("2fe9bb", 9, "DER length more than 4 bytes: 65");
        doDudPasswordTest("3ee7a8", 10, "DER length more than 4 bytes: 57");
        doDudPasswordTest("41af75", 11, "unknown tag 16 encountered");
        doDudPasswordTest("1704a5", 12, "corrupted stream detected");
        doDudPasswordTest("1c5822", 13, "unknown object in getInstance: org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERUTF8String");
        doDudPasswordTest("5a3d16", 14, "corrupted stream detected");
        doDudPasswordTest("8d0c97", 15, "corrupted stream detected");
        doDudPasswordTest("bc0daf", 16, "corrupted stream detected");
        doDudPasswordTest("aaf9c4d",17, "corrupted stream - out of bounds length found");

        doNoPasswordTest();

        // encrypted private key test
        InputDecryptorProvider pkcs8Prov = new JceOpenSSLPKCS8DecryptorProviderBuilder().build("password".toCharArray());
        pemRd = openPEMResource("enckey.pem");

        PKCS8EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo encPrivKeyInfo = (PKCS8EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo)pemRd.readObject();
        JcaPEMKeyConverter   converter = new JcaPEMKeyConverter().setProvider("BC");

        RSAPrivateCrtKey privKey = (RSAPrivateCrtKey)converter.getPrivateKey(encPrivKeyInfo.decryptPrivateKeyInfo(pkcs8Prov));

        if (!privKey.getPublicExponent().equals(new BigInteger("10001", 16)))
        {
            fail("decryption of private key data check failed");
        }

        // general PKCS8 test

        pemRd = openPEMResource("pkcs8test.pem");

        Object privInfo;

        while ((privInfo = pemRd.readObject()) != null)
        {
            if (privInfo instanceof PrivateKeyInfo)
            {
                privKey = (RSAPrivateCrtKey)converter.getPrivateKey(PrivateKeyInfo.getInstance(privInfo));
            }
            else
            {
                privKey = (RSAPrivateCrtKey)converter.getPrivateKey(((PKCS8EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo)privInfo).decryptPrivateKeyInfo(pkcs8Prov));
            }
            if (!privKey.getPublicExponent().equals(new BigInteger("10001", 16)))
            {
                fail("decryption of private key data check failed");
            }
        }
    }

    private void keyPairTest(
        String   name,
        KeyPair pair) 
        throws IOException
    {
        PEMParser pemRd;
        ByteArrayOutputStream bOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        PEMWriter             pWrt = new PEMWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(bOut));

        pWrt.writeObject(pair.getPublic());

        pWrt.close();

        pemRd = new PEMParser(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(bOut.toByteArray())));

        SubjectPublicKeyInfo pub = SubjectPublicKeyInfo.getInstance(pemRd.readObject());
        JcaPEMKeyConverter   converter = new JcaPEMKeyConverter().setProvider("BC");

        PublicKey k = converter.getPublicKey(pub);

        if (!k.equals(pair.getPublic()))
        {
            fail("Failed public key read: " + name);
        }

        bOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        pWrt = new PEMWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(bOut));

        pWrt.writeObject(pair.getPrivate());

        pWrt.close();

        pemRd = new PEMParser(new InputStreamReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(bOut.toByteArray())));

        KeyPair kPair = converter.getKeyPair((PEMKeyPair)pemRd.readObject());
        if (!kPair.getPrivate().equals(pair.getPrivate()))
        {
            fail("Failed private key read: " + name);
        }

        if (!kPair.getPublic().equals(pair.getPublic()))
        {
            fail("Failed private key public read: " + name);
        }
    }

    private void doOpenSslTests(
        String baseName)
        throws IOException
    {
        doOpenSslDsaModesTest(baseName);
        doOpenSslRsaModesTest(baseName);
    }

    private void doOpenSslDsaModesTest(
        String baseName)
        throws IOException
    {
        doOpenSslDsaTest(baseName + "_cbc");
        doOpenSslDsaTest(baseName + "_cfb");
        doOpenSslDsaTest(baseName + "_ecb");
        doOpenSslDsaTest(baseName + "_ofb");
    }

    private void doOpenSslRsaModesTest(
        String baseName)
        throws IOException
    {
        doOpenSslRsaTest(baseName + "_cbc");
        doOpenSslRsaTest(baseName + "_cfb");
        doOpenSslRsaTest(baseName + "_ecb");
        doOpenSslRsaTest(baseName + "_ofb");
    }

    private void doOpenSslDsaTest(
        String name)
        throws IOException
    {
        String fileName = "dsa/openssl_dsa_" + name + ".pem";

        doOpenSslTestFile(fileName, DSAPrivateKey.class);
    }

    private void doOpenSslRsaTest(
        String name)
        throws IOException
    {
        String fileName = "rsa/openssl_rsa_" + name + ".pem";

        doOpenSslTestFile(fileName, RSAPrivateKey.class);
    }

    private void doOpenSslTestFile(
        String  fileName,
        Class   expectedPrivKeyClass)
        throws IOException
    {
        JcaPEMKeyConverter   converter = new JcaPEMKeyConverter().setProvider("BC");
        PEMDecryptorProvider decProv = new JcePEMDecryptorProviderBuilder().setProvider("BC").build("changeit".toCharArray());
        PEMParser pr = openPEMResource("data/" + fileName);
        Object o = pr.readObject();

        if (o == null || !((o instanceof PEMKeyPair) || (o instanceof PEMEncryptedKeyPair)))
        {
            fail("Didn't find OpenSSL key");
        }

        KeyPair kp = (o instanceof PEMEncryptedKeyPair) ?
            converter.getKeyPair(((PEMEncryptedKeyPair)o).decryptKeyPair(decProv)) : converter.getKeyPair((PEMKeyPair)o);

        PrivateKey privKey = kp.getPrivate();

        if (!expectedPrivKeyClass.isInstance(privKey))
        {
            fail("Returned key not of correct type");
        }
    }

    private void doDudPasswordTest(String password, int index, String message)
    {
        // illegal state exception check - in this case the wrong password will
        // cause an underlying class cast exception.
        try
        {
            PEMDecryptorProvider decProv = new JcePEMDecryptorProviderBuilder().setProvider("BC").build(password.toCharArray());

            PEMParser pemRd = openPEMResource("test.pem");
            Object o;

            while ((o = pemRd.readObject()) != null)
            {
                if (o instanceof PEMEncryptedKeyPair)
                {
                    ((PEMEncryptedKeyPair)o).decryptKeyPair(decProv);
                }
            }

            fail("issue not detected: " + index);
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            if (e.getCause() != null && !e.getCause().getMessage().endsWith(message))
            {
               fail("issue " + index + " exception thrown, but wrong message");
            }
            else if (e.getCause() == null && !e.getMessage().equals(message))
            {
                               e.printStackTrace();
               fail("issue " + index + " exception thrown, but wrong message");
            }
        }
    }

    private void doNoPasswordTest()
        throws IOException
    {
        PEMDecryptorProvider decProv = new JcePEMDecryptorProviderBuilder().setProvider("BC").build("".toCharArray());

        PEMParser pemRd = openPEMResource("smimenopw.pem");
        Object o;
        PrivateKeyInfo key = null;

        while ((o = pemRd.readObject()) != null)
        {
             key = (PrivateKeyInfo)o;
        }

        if (key == null)
        {
            fail("private key not detected");
        }
    }

    public static void main(
        String[]    args)
    {
        Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());

        runTest(new ParserTest());
    }
}

How to make the overflow CSS property work with hidden as value

Actually...

To hide an absolute positioned element, the container position must be anything except for static. It can be relative or fixed in addition to absolute.

Passing base64 encoded strings in URL

There are additional base64 specs. (See the table here for specifics ). But essentially you need 65 chars to encode: 26 lowercase + 26 uppercase + 10 digits = 62.

You need two more ['+', '/'] and a padding char '='. But none of them are url friendly, so just use different chars for them and you're set. The standard ones from the chart above are ['-', '_'], but you could use other chars as long as you decoded them the same, and didn't need to share with others.

I'd recommend just writing your own helpers. Like these from the comments on the php manual page for base64_encode:

function base64_url_encode($input) {
 return strtr(base64_encode($input), '+/=', '._-');
}

function base64_url_decode($input) {
 return base64_decode(strtr($input, '._-', '+/='));
}

How to access full source of old commit in BitBucket?

Search it for a long time, and finally, I found how to do it:)

Please check this image which illustrates steps. enter image description here

How to get commit history for just one branch?

You can use only git log --oneline

Eclipse "cannot find the tag library descriptor" for custom tags (not JSTL!)

replace jstl.jar to jstl1.2.jar resolved the issue for tomcat 7.0

How to paste into a terminal?

Gnome terminal defaults to ControlShiftv

OSX terminal defaults to Commandv. You can also use CommandControlv to paste the text in escaped form.

Windows 7 terminal defaults to CtrlShiftInsert

Java Pass Method as Parameter

I appreciate the answers above but I was able to achieve the same behavior using the method below; an idea borrowed from Javascript callbacks. I'm open to correction though so far so good (in production).

The idea is to use the return type of the function in the signature, meaning that the yield has to be static.

Below is a function that runs a process with a timeout.

public static void timeoutFunction(String fnReturnVal) {

    Object p = null; // whatever object you need here

    String threadSleeptime = null;

    Config config;

    try {
        config = ConfigReader.getConfigProperties();
        threadSleeptime = config.getThreadSleepTime();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        log.error(e);
        log.error("");
        log.error("Defaulting thread sleep time to 105000 miliseconds.");
        log.error("");
        threadSleeptime = "100000";
    }

    ExecutorService executor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
    Callable<Object> task = new Callable<Object>() {
        public Object call() {
            // Do job here using --- fnReturnVal --- and return appropriate value
            return null;
        }
    };
    Future<Object> future = executor.submit(task);

    try {
        p = future.get(Integer.parseInt(threadSleeptime), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        log.error(e + ". The function timed out after [" + threadSleeptime
                + "] miliseconds before a response was received.");
    } finally {
        // if task has started then don't stop it
        future.cancel(false);
    }
}

private static String returnString() {
    return "hello";
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    timeoutFunction(returnString());
}

Node Sass couldn't find a binding for your current environment

I had the same issue. I couldn't find any proper working solution in here, so I found mine:

Inspired by @Rob-Scott solution and other pointing that we could have 2 versions of Node.js installed, I went to C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs and realized that I had a node.js version installed in addition to the VS default installation.

My solution was quite simple:

  • Go to Tools > Options > Projects & solutions > Web package management > External web tools
  • Click on add an entry (most left of the top-right block of buttons)
  • Enter C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs, validate by pressing enter
  • Bring it at the top of the list
  • Enjoy

Probably Node.js is not set well in the PATH variable, but this is my working very quick solution, my 2 cents :)

Storing Images in PostgreSQL

If your images are small, consider storing them as base64 in a plain text field.

The reason is that while base64 has an overhead of 33%, with compression that mostly goes away. (See What is the space overhead of Base64 encoding?) Your database will be bigger, but the packets your webserver sends to the client won't be. In html, you can inline base64 in an <img src=""> tag, which can possibly simplify your app because you won't have to serve up the images as binary in a separate browser fetch. Handling images as text also simplifies things when you have to send/receive json, which doesn't handle binary very well.

Yes, I understand you could store the binary in the database and convert it to/from text on the way in and out of the database, but sometimes ORMs make that a hassle. It can be simpler just to treat it as straight text just like all your other fields.

This is definitely the right way to handle thumbnails.

(OP's images are not small, so this is not really an answer to his question.)

move column in pandas dataframe

Simple solution:

old_cols = df.columns.values 
new_cols= ['a', 'y', 'b', 'x']
df = df.reindex(columns=new_cols)

Convert Existing Eclipse Project to Maven Project

If you just want to create a default POM and enable m2eclipse features: so I'm assuming you do not currently have an alternative automated build setup you're trying to import, and I'm assuming you're talking about the m2eclipse plugin.

The m2eclipse plugin provides a right-click option on a project to add this default pom.xml:

Newer M2E versions

Right click on Project -> submenu Configure -> Convert to Maven Project

Older M2E versions

Right click on Project -> submenu Maven -> Enable Dependency Management.

That'll do the necessary to enable the plugin for that project.


To answer 'is there an automatic importer or wizard?': not that I know of. Using the option above will allow you to enable the m2eclipse plugin for your existing project avoiding the manual copying. You will still need to actually set up the dependencies and other stuff you need to build yourself.

How to Detect cause of 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error and handle it?

There is of course some apache log files. Search in your apache configuration files for 'Log' keyword, you'll certainly find plenty of them. Depending on your OS and installation places may vary (in a Typical Linux server it would be /var/log/apache2/[access|error].log).

Having a 503 error in Apache usually means the proxied page/service is not available. I assume you're using tomcat and that means tomcat is either not responding to apache (timeout?) or not even available (down? crashed?). So chances are that it's a configuration error in the way to connect apache and tomcat or an application inside tomcat that is not even sending a response for apache.

Sometimes, in production servers, it can as well be that you get too much traffic for the tomcat server, apache handle more request than the proxyied service (tomcat) can accept so the backend became unavailable.

what is reverse() in Django

The existing answers are quite clear. Just in case you do not know why it is called reverse: It takes an input of a url name and gives the actual url, which is reverse to having a url first and then give it a name.

How can I print variable and string on same line in Python?

Just use , (comma) in between.

See this code for better understanding:

# Weight converter pounds to kg

weight_lbs = input("Enter your weight in pounds: ")

weight_kg = 0.45 * int(weight_lbs)

print("You are ", weight_kg, " kg")

SQL - IF EXISTS UPDATE ELSE INSERT Syntax Error

INSERT INTO component_psar (tbl_id, row_nr, col_1, col_2, col_3, col_4, col_5, col_6, unit, add_info, fsar_lock)
VALUES('2', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', 'N')
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col_1 = VALUES(col_1), col_2 = VALUES(col_2), col_3 = VALUES(col_3), col_4 = VALUES(col_4), col_5 = VALUES(col_5), col_6 = VALUES(col_6), unit = VALUES(unit), add_info = VALUES(add_info), fsar_lock = VALUES(fsar_lock)

Would work with tbl_id and row_nr having UNIQUE key.

This is the method DocJonas linked to with an example.

Add space between two particular <td>s

you have to set cellpadding and cellspacing that's it.

<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tr> 
<td>One</td> 
<td>Two</td> 
<td>Three</td> 
<td>Four</td> 
</tr>
</table>

Split function in oracle to comma separated values with automatic sequence

Best Query For comma separated in This Query we Convert Rows To Column ...

SELECT listagg(BL_PRODUCT_DESC, ', ') within
   group(   order by BL_PRODUCT_DESC) PROD
  FROM GET_PRODUCT
--  WHERE BL_PRODUCT_DESC LIKE ('%WASH%')
  WHERE Get_Product_Type_Id = 6000000000007

List all of the possible goals in Maven 2?

The goal you indicate in the command line is linked to the lifecycle of Maven. For example, the build lifecycle (you also have the clean and site lifecycles which are different) is composed of the following phases:

  • validate: validate the project is correct and all necessary information is available.
  • compile: compile the source code of the project.
  • test: test the compiled source code using a suitable unit testing framework. These tests should not require the code be packaged or deployed.
  • package: take the compiled code and package it in its distributable format, such as a JAR.
  • integration-test: process and deploy the package if necessary into an environment where integration tests can be run.
  • verify: run any checks to verify the package is valid and meets quality criteria
  • install: install the package into the local repository, for use as a dependency in other projects locally.
  • deploy: done in an integration or release environment, copies the final package to the remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects.

You can find the list of "core" plugins here, but there are plenty of others plugins, such as the codehaus ones, here.

How to concat a string to xsl:value-of select="...?

You can use the rather sensibly named xpath function called concat here

<a>
   <xsl:attribute name="href">
      <xsl:value-of select="concat('myText:', /*/properties/property[@name='report']/@value)" />
   </xsl:attribute>
</a>  

Of course, it doesn't have to be text here, it can be another xpath expression to select an element or attribute. And you can have any number of arguments in the concat expression.

Do note, you can make use of Attribute Value Templates (represented by the curly braces) here to simplify your expression

<a href="{concat('myText:', /*/properties/property[@name='report']/@value)}"></a>

Best data type to store money values in MySQL

Since money needs an exact representation don't use data types that are only approximate like float. You can use a fixed-point numeric data type for that like

decimal(15,2)
  • 15 is the precision (total length of value including decimal places)
  • 2 is the number of digits after decimal point

See MySQL Numeric Types:

These types are used when it is important to preserve exact precision, for example with monetary data.

Use CSS to automatically add 'required field' asterisk to form inputs

Here is a simple "CSS only" trick I created and am using to dynamically add a red asterisk on the labels of required form elements without losing browsers' default form validation.

The following code works perfectly on all the browsers and for all the main form elements.

_x000D_
_x000D_
.form-group {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

label {
  order: 1;
  text-transform: capitalize;
  margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}

input,
select,
textarea {
  padding: 0.5em;
  order: 2;
}

input:required+label::after,
select:required+label::after,
textarea:required+label::after {
  content: " *";
  color: #e32;
}
_x000D_
<div class="form-group">
  <input class="form-control" name="first_name" id="first_name" type="text" placeholder="First Name" required>
  <label class="small mb-1" for="first_name">First Name</label>
</div>

<br>

<div class="form-group">
  <input class="form-control" name="last_name" id="last_name" type="text" placeholder="Last Name">
  <label class="small mb-1" for="last_name">Last Name</label>
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Important: You must preserve the order of elements that is the input element first and label element second. CSS is gonna handle it and transform it in the traditional way, that is the label first and input second.

SQL Server - How to lock a table until a stored procedure finishes

BEGIN TRANSACTION

select top 1 *
from table1
with (tablock, holdlock)

-- You do lots of things here

COMMIT

This will hold the 'table lock' until the end of your current "transaction".

How to pass arguments from command line to gradle

There's a great example here:

https://kb.novaordis.com/index.php/Gradle_Pass_Configuration_on_Command_Line

Which details that you can pass parameters and then provide a default in an ext variable like so:

gradle -Dmy_app.color=blue

and then reference in Gradle as:

ext {
   color = System.getProperty("my_app.color", "red");
}

And then anywhere in your build script you can reference it as course anywhere you can reference it as project.ext.color

More tips here: https://kb.novaordis.com/index.php/Gradle_Variables_and_Properties

How do I get my page title to have an icon?

This code will defiantly work. In a comment I saw they are using ejs syntex that is not for everyone only for those who are working with express.js

<link rel="icon" href="demo_icon.gif" sizes="16x16">
<title> Reddit</title>

you can also add png and jpg

How to Merge Two Eloquent Collections?

The merge() method on the Collection does not modify the collection on which it was called. It returns a new collection with the new data merged in. You would need:

$related = $related->merge($tag->questions);

However, I think you're tackling the problem from the wrong angle.

Since you're looking for questions that meet a certain criteria, it would probably be easier to query in that manner. The has() and whereHas() methods are used to generate a query based on the existence of a related record.

If you were just looking for questions that have any tag, you would use the has() method. Since you're looking for questions with a specific tag, you would use the whereHas() to add the condition.

So, if you want all the questions that have at least one tag with either 'Travel', 'Trains', or 'Culture', your query would look like:

$questions = Question::whereHas('tags', function($q) {
    $q->whereIn('name', ['Travel', 'Trains', 'Culture']);
})->get();

If you wanted all questions that had all three of those tags, your query would look like:

$questions = Question::whereHas('tags', function($q) {
    $q->where('name', 'Travel');
})->whereHas('tags', function($q) {
    $q->where('name', 'Trains');
})->whereHas('tags', function($q) {
    $q->where('name', 'Culture');
})->get();

Where is body in a nodejs http.get response?

A portion of Coffee here:

# My little helper
read_buffer = (buffer, callback) ->
  data = ''
  buffer.on 'readable', -> data += buffer.read().toString()
  buffer.on 'end', -> callback data

# So request looks like
http.get 'http://i.want.some/stuff', (res) ->
  read_buffer res, (response) ->
    # Do some things with your response
    # but don't do that exactly :D
    eval(CoffeeScript.compile response, bare: true)

And compiled

var read_buffer;

read_buffer = function(buffer, callback) {
  var data;
  data = '';
  buffer.on('readable', function() {
    return data += buffer.read().toString();
  });
  return buffer.on('end', function() {
    return callback(data);
  });
};

http.get('http://i.want.some/stuff', function(res) {
  return read_buffer(res, function(response) {
    return eval(CoffeeScript.compile(response, {
      bare: true
    }));
  });
});

CSS property to pad text inside of div

The CSS property you are looking for is padding. The problem with padding is that it adds to the width of the original element, so if you have a div with a width of 300px, and add 10px of padding to it, the width will now be 320px (10px on the left and 10px on the right).

To prevent this you can add box-sizing: border-box; to the div, this makes it maintain the designated width, even if you add padding. So your CSS would look like this:

div {
    box-sizing: border-box;
    padding: 10px;
}

you can read more about box-sizing and it's overall browser support here:

http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/

How to display HTML in TextView?

If you are trying to show HTML from a string resource id, the formatting may not show up on screen. If that is happening to you, try using CDATA tags instead:

strings.xml:
<string name="sample_string"><![CDATA[<h2>Title</h2><br><p>Description here</p>]]></string>

...

MainActivity.java:
text.setText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.sample_string));

See this post for further details.

Does java.util.List.isEmpty() check if the list itself is null?

Invoking any method on any null reference will always result in an exception. Test if the object is null first:

List<Object> test = null;
if (test != null && !test.isEmpty()) {
    // ...
}

Alternatively, write a method to encapsulate this logic:

public static <T> boolean IsNullOrEmpty(Collection<T> list) {
    return list == null || list.isEmpty();
}

Then you can do:

List<Object> test = null;
if (!IsNullOrEmpty(test)) {
    // ...
}

PHP Multidimensional Array Searching (Find key by specific value)

function search($array, $key, $value) 
{ 
    $results = array(); 

    if (is_array($array)) 
    { 
        if (isset($array[$key]) && $array[$key] == $value) 
            $results[] = $array; 

        foreach ($array as $subarray) 
            $results = array_merge($results, search($subarray, $key, $value)); 
    } 

    return $results; 
} 

Fastest way to duplicate an array in JavaScript - slice vs. 'for' loop

If you want a REAL cloned object/array in JS with cloned references of all attributes and sub-objects:

export function clone(arr) {
    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(arr))
}

ALL other operations do not create clones, because they just change the base address of the root element, not of the included objects.

Except you traverse recursive through the object-tree.

For a simple copy, these are OK. For storage address relevant operations I suggest (and in most all other cases, because this is fast!) to type convert into string and back in a complete new object.

Generating (pseudo)random alpha-numeric strings

Simple guys .... but remember each byte is random between 0 and 255 which for a random string will be fine. Also remember you'll have two characters to represent each byte.

$str = bin2hex(random_bytes(32));  // 64 character string returned

How do I check in SQLite whether a table exists?

If you're using fmdb, I think you can just import FMDatabaseAdditions and use the bool function:

[yourfmdbDatabase tableExists:tableName].

How to auto adjust the <div> height according to content in it?

Most of these are great answers, but I feel that they are leaving out one inevitable aspect of web-development which is the on-going page update. What if you want to come and add content to this div? Should you always come to adjust the div min-height? Well, whilst trying to answer these two questions, I tried out the following code instead:

.box-centerside {
  background: url("../images/greybox-center-bg1.jpg") repeat-x scroll center top transparent;
  float: left;
  height: auto; /* adjusts height container element according to content */
  width: 260px;
}

furthermore, just for a sort of bonus , if you have elements around this div with properties like position: relative; , they would consequently stack on top of this div, because it has property float: left; To avoid such stacking, I tried the following code:

.parent {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr); /* number depends on how many columns you want for a particular screen width. */
  height: auto; /* adjusts height container element according to content */
}

.box-centerside {
  background: url("../images/greybox-center-bg1.jpg") repeat-x scroll center top transparent;
  height: auto; /* adjusts height container element according to content */
  width: 100%;
}

.sibling 1 {
  /* Code here */
}

.sibling 2 {
  /* Code here */
}

My opinion is that, I find this grid method of displaying more fitting for a responsive website. Otherwise, there are many ways of achieving the same goals; But some of the important goals of programming are to make coding simpler and more readable as well as easier to understand.

Find records with a date field in the last 24 hours

To get records from the last 24 hours:

SELECT * from [table_name] WHERE date > (NOW() - INTERVAL 24 HOUR)

Why are my PowerShell scripts not running?

We can bypass execution policy in a nice way (inside command prompt):

type file.ps1 | powershell -command -

Or inside powershell:

gc file.ps1|powershell -c -

Rebuild Docker container on file changes

After some research and testing, I found that I had some misunderstandings about the lifetime of Docker containers. Simply restarting a container doesn't make Docker use a new image, when the image was rebuilt in the meantime. Instead, Docker is fetching the image only before creating the container. So the state after running a container is persistent.

Why removing is required

Therefore, rebuilding and restarting isn't enough. I thought containers works like a service: Stopping the service, do your changes, restart it and they would apply. That was my biggest mistake.

Because containers are permanent, you have to remove them using docker rm <ContainerName> first. After a container is removed, you can't simply start it by docker start. This has to be done using docker run, which itself uses the latest image for creating a new container-instance.

Containers should be as independent as possible

With this knowledge, it's comprehensible why storing data in containers is qualified as bad practice and Docker recommends data volumes/mounting host directorys instead: Since a container has to be destroyed to update applications, the stored data inside would be lost too. This cause extra work to shutdown services, backup data and so on.

So it's a smart solution to exclude those data completely from the container: We don't have to worry about our data, when its stored safely on the host and the container only holds the application itself.

Why -rf may not really help you

The docker run command, has a Clean up switch called -rf. It will stop the behavior of keeping docker containers permanently. Using -rf, Docker will destroy the container after it has been exited. But this switch has two problems:

  1. Docker also remove the volumes without a name associated with the container, which may kill your data
  2. Using this option, its not possible to run containers in the background using -d switch

While the -rf switch is a good option to save work during development for quick tests, it's less suitable in production. Especially because of the missing option to run a container in the background, which would mostly be required.

How to remove a container

We can bypass those limitations by simply removing the container:

docker rm --force <ContainerName>

The --force (or -f) switch which use SIGKILL on running containers. Instead, you could also stop the container before:

docker stop <ContainerName>
docker rm <ContainerName>

Both are equal. docker stop is also using SIGTERM. But using --force switch will shorten your script, especially when using CI servers: docker stop throws an error if the container is not running. This would cause Jenkins and many other CI servers to consider the build wrongly as failed. To fix this, you have to check first if the container is running as I did in the question (see containerRunning variable).

Full script for rebuilding a Docker container

According to this new knowledge, I fixed my script in the following way:

#!/bin/bash
imageName=xx:my-image
containerName=my-container

docker build -t $imageName -f Dockerfile  .

echo Delete old container...
docker rm -f $containerName

echo Run new container...
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --name $containerName $imageName

This works perfectly :)

Working Copy Locked

I fixed it by deleting the hidden .svn folder and replaced it with the fresh checkout .svn and it worked. Probably this hidden folder got messed up!

How much does it cost to develop an iPhone application?

I am an account exec at a web and mobile development company and hear this question everyday. Unfortunately, iPhone apps are not cheap. You can expect around $100 per hour if you are staying on US soil. I have seen some offshore Indian developers out there for as low as $20 per hour. It all depends on the number and complexity of the functions you wish the app to perform. Simple one function apps are normally around 4-5k. They are so expensive because you are paying a team of people a healthy hourly wage and any type of raw prototyping, development, and coding takes time. Apps can exceed 60-100k pretty easily. Southwest Airlines making an app with a full ecommerce platform that allows you to buy tickets over your phone is an example. All of that porting into their IT is a big job.

And offshoring the project is definitely not always a better option. If you do so you better know who you are dealing with. Do not get me wrong there folks over there who do a bad ass job for a way better deal, but they are not that easy to find. Those guys could fuck around for 5 months on a simple project that would take 6 weeks here, or just not complete it at all and hand it over half finished. I have seen this scenario many times where we finish the work. The project management becomes a challenge. It can be difficult to communicate exactly what you want the app to do.

Importing images from a directory (Python) to list or dictionary

from PIL import Image
import os, os.path

imgs = []
path = "/home/tony/pictures"
valid_images = [".jpg",".gif",".png",".tga"]
for f in os.listdir(path):
    ext = os.path.splitext(f)[1]
    if ext.lower() not in valid_images:
        continue
    imgs.append(Image.open(os.path.join(path,f)))
   

CSS Font Border?

To elaborate more on some answers that have mentioned -webkit-text-stroke, here's is the code to make it work:

div {
  -webkit-text-fill-color: black;
  -webkit-text-stroke-color: red;
  -webkit-text-stroke-width: 2.00px; 
}

An in-depth article about using text stroke is here and a list of browsers that support text stroke is here.

How to convert a Hibernate proxy to a real entity object

Since Hibernate ORM 5.2.10, you can do it likee this:

Object unproxiedEntity = Hibernate.unproxy(proxy);

Before Hibernate 5.2.10. the simplest way to do that was to use the unproxy method offered by Hibernate internal PersistenceContext implementation:

Object unproxiedEntity = ((SessionImplementor) session)
                         .getPersistenceContext()
                         .unproxy(proxy);

Bundling data files with PyInstaller (--onefile)

I have been dealing with this issue for a long(well, very long) time. I've searched almost every source but things were not getting in a pattern in my head.

Finally, I think I have figured out exact steps to follow, I wanted to share.

Note that, my answer uses informations on the answers of others on this question.

How to create a standalone executable of a python project.

Assume, we have a project_folder and the file tree is as follows:

project_folder/
    main.py
    xxx.py # modules
    xxx.py # modules
    sound/ # directory containing the sound files
    img/ # directory containing the image files
    venv/ # if using a venv

First of all, let's say you have defined your paths to sound/ and img/ folders into variables sound_dir and img_dir as follows:

img_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "img")
sound_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "sound")

You have to change them, as follows:

img_dir = resource_path("img")
sound_dir = resource_path("sound")

Where, resource_path() is defined in the top of your script as:

def resource_path(relative_path):
    """ Get absolute path to resource, works for dev and for PyInstaller """
    base_path = getattr(sys, '_MEIPASS', os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
    return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)

Activate virtual env if using a venv,

Install pyinstaller if you didn't yet, by: pip3 install pyinstaller.

Run: pyi-makespec --onefile main.py to create the spec file for the compile and build process.

This will change file hierarchy to:

project_folder/
    main.py
    xxx.py # modules
    xxx.py # modules
    sound/ # directory containing the sound files
    img/ # directory containing the image files
    venv/ # if using a venv
    main.spec

Open(with an edior) main.spec:

At top of it, insert:

added_files = [

("sound", "sound"),
("img", "img")

]

Then, change the line of datas=[], to datas=added_files,

For the details of the operations done on main.spec see here.

Run pyinstaller --onefile main.spec

And that is all, you can run main in project_folder/dist from anywhere, without having anything else in its folder. You can distribute only that main file. It is now, a true standalone.

Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined error in jQuery

Include the jQuery file first:

 <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript" src="./javascript.js"></script>
    <script
        src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=AIzaSyCJnj2nWoM86eU8Bq2G4lSNz3udIkZT4YY&sensor=false">
    </script>

Single quotes vs. double quotes in C or C++

Some compilers also implement an extension, that allows multi-character constants. The C99 standard says:

6.4.4.4p10: "The value of an integer character constant containing more than one character (e.g., 'ab'), or containing a character or escape sequence that does not map to a single-byte execution character, is implementation-defined."

This could look like this, for instance:

const uint32_t png_ihdr = 'IHDR';

The resulting constant (in GCC, which implements this) has the value you get by taking each character and shifting it up, so that 'I' ends up in the most significant bits of the 32-bit value. Obviously, you shouldn't rely on this if you are writing platform independent code.

Usage of $broadcast(), $emit() And $on() in AngularJS

$emit

It dispatches an event name upwards through the scope hierarchy and notify to the registered $rootScope.Scope listeners. The event life cycle starts at the scope on which $emit was called. The event traverses upwards toward the root scope and calls all registered listeners along the way. The event will stop propagating if one of the listeners cancels it.

$broadcast

It dispatches an event name downwards to all child scopes (and their children) and notify to the registered $rootScope.Scope listeners. The event life cycle starts at the scope on which $broadcast was called. All listeners for the event on this scope get notified. Afterwards, the event traverses downwards toward the child scopes and calls all registered listeners along the way. The event cannot be canceled.

$on

It listen on events of a given type. It can catch the event dispatched by $broadcast and $emit.


Visual demo:

Demo working code, visually showing scope tree (parent/child relationship):
http://plnkr.co/edit/am6IDw?p=preview

Demonstrates the method calls:

  $scope.$on('eventEmitedName', function(event, data) ...
  $scope.broadcastEvent
  $scope.emitEvent

How to write the Fibonacci Sequence?

Why not simply do the following?

x = [1,1]
for i in range(2, 10):  
    x.append(x[-1] + x[-2]) 
print(', '.join(str(y) for y in x))

Overcoming "Display forbidden by X-Frame-Options"

I came across this issue when running a wordpress web site. I tried all sorts of things to fix it and wasn't sure how, ultimately the issue was because I was using DNS forwarding with masking, and the links to external sites were not being addressed properly. i.e. my site was hosted at http://123.456.789/index.html but was masked to run at http://somewebSite.com/index.html. When i entered http://123.456.789/index.html in the browser clicking on those same links resulted in no X-frame-origins issues in the JS console, but running http://somewebSite.com/index.html did. In order to properly mask you must add your host's DNS name servers to your domain service, i.e. godaddy.com should have name servers of example, ns1.digitalocean.com, ns2.digitalocean.com, ns3.digitalocean.com, if you were using digitalocean.com as your hosting service.

Chmod 777 to a folder and all contents

If by all permissions you mean 777

Navigate to folder and

chmod -R 777 .

SSH SCP Local file to Remote in Terminal Mac Os X

At first, you need to add : after the IP address to indicate the path is following:

scp magento.tar.gz [email protected]:/var/www

I don't think you need to sudo the scp. In this case it doesn't affect the remote machine, only the local command.

Then if your user@xx.x.x.xx doesn't have write access to /var/www then you need to do it in 2 times:

Copy to remote server in your home folder (: represents your remote home folder, use :subfolder/ if needed, or :/home/user/ for full path):

scp magento.tar.gz [email protected]:

Then SSH and move the file:

ssh [email protected]
sudo mv magento.tar.gz /var/www

#ifdef in C#

#if DEBUG
bool bypassCheck=TRUE_OR_FALSE;//i will decide depending on what i am debugging
#else
bool bypassCheck = false; //NEVER bypass it
#endif

Make sure you have the checkbox to define DEBUG checked in your build properties.

MongoDB: How to find out if an array field contains an element?

[edit based on this now being possible in recent versions]

[Updated Answer] You can query the following way to get back the name of class and the student id only if they are already enrolled.

db.student.find({},
 {_id:0, name:1, students:{$elemMatch:{$eq:ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015cf")}}})

and you will get back what you expected:

{ "name" : "CS 101", "students" : [ ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015cf") ] }
{ "name" : "Literature" }
{ "name" : "Physics", "students" : [ ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015cf") ] }

[Original Answer] It's not possible to do what you want to do currently. This is unfortunate because you would be able to do this if the student was stored in the array as an object. In fact, I'm a little surprised you are using just ObjectId() as that will always require you to look up the students if you want to display a list of students enrolled in a particular course (look up list of Id's first then look up names in the students collection - two queries instead of one!)

If you were storing (as an example) an Id and name in the course array like this:

{
        "_id" : ObjectId("51780fb5c9c41825e3e21fc6"),
        "name" : "Physics",
        "students" : [
                {id: ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015cf"), name: "John"},
                {id: ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015d0"), name: "Sam"}
        ]
}

Your query then would simply be:

db.course.find( { }, 
                { students : 
                    { $elemMatch : 
                       { id : ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015d0"), 
                         name : "Sam" 
                       } 
                    } 
                } 
);

If that student was only enrolled in CS 101 you'd get back:

{ "name" : "Literature" }
{ "name" : "Physics" }
{
    "name" : "CS 101",
    "students" : [
        {
            "id" : ObjectId("51780f796ec4051a536015cf"),
            "name" : "John"
        }
    ]
}

Attach the Java Source Code

issue resolved here :

"Windows/Preferences": Java > Installed JREs:

then set/update JRE HOME : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221\jre

should try this.

What is base 64 encoding used for?

It's basically a way of encoding arbitrary binary data in ASCII text. It takes 4 characters per 3 bytes of data, plus potentially a bit of padding at the end.

Essentially each 6 bits of the input is encoded in a 64-character alphabet. The "standard" alphabet uses A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and + and /, with = as a padding character. There are URL-safe variants.

Wikipedia is a reasonably good source of more information.

Ellipsis for overflow text in dropdown boxes

I used this approach in a recent project and I was pretty happy with the result:

.select-wrapper {
    position: relative;
    &::after {
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        right: 0;
        width: 100px;
        height: 100%;
        content: "";
        background: linear-gradient(to right, transparent, white);
        pointer-events: none;
    }
}

Basically, wrap the select in a div and insert a pseudo element to overlay the end of the text to create the appearance that the text fades out.

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Django Forms: if not valid, show form with error message

If you render the same view when the form is not valid then in template you can access the form errors using form.errors.

{% if form.errors %}
    {% for field in form %}
        {% for error in field.errors %}
            <div class="alert alert-danger">
                <strong>{{ error|escape }}</strong>
            </div>
        {% endfor %}
    {% endfor %}
    {% for error in form.non_field_errors %}
        <div class="alert alert-danger">
            <strong>{{ error|escape }}</strong>
        </div>
    {% endfor %}
{% endif %}

An example:

def myView(request):
    form = myForm(request.POST or None, request.FILES or None)
    if request.method == 'POST':
        if form.is_valid():
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/')
    return render(request, 'my_template.html', {'form': form})

Bash syntax error: unexpected end of file

This was happening for me when I was trying to call a function using parens, e.g.

run() {
  echo hello
}

run()

should be:

run() {
  echo hello
}

run

'Must Override a Superclass Method' Errors after importing a project into Eclipse

Fixing must override a super class method error is not difficult, You just need to change Java source version to 1.6 because from Java 1.6 @Override annotation can be used along with interface method. In order to change source version to 1.6 follow below steps :

  1. Select Project , Right click , Properties
  2. Select Java Compiler and check the check box "Enable project specific settings"
  3. Now make Compiler compliance level to 1.6
  4. Apply changes

Eloquent ->first() if ->exists()

An answer has already been accepted, but in these situations, a more elegant solution in my opinion would be to use error handling.

    try {
        $user = User::where('mobile', Input::get('mobile'))->first();
    } catch (ErrorException $e) {
        // Do stuff here that you need to do if it doesn't exist.
        return View::make('some.view')->with('msg', $e->getMessage());
    }

Pointers in C: when to use the ampersand and the asterisk?

Put simply

  • & means the address-of, you will see that in placeholders for functions to modify the parameter variable as in C, parameter variables are passed by value, using the ampersand means to pass by reference.
  • * means the dereference of a pointer variable, meaning to get the value of that pointer variable.
int foo(int *x){
   *x++;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv){
   int y = 5;
   foo(&y);  // Now y is incremented and in scope here
   printf("value of y = %d\n", y); // output is 6
   /* ... */
}

The above example illustrates how to call a function foo by using pass-by-reference, compare with this

int foo(int x){
   x++;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv){
   int y = 5;
   foo(y);  // Now y is still 5
   printf("value of y = %d\n", y); // output is 5
   /* ... */
}

Here's an illustration of using a dereference

int main(int argc, char **argv){
   int y = 5;
   int *p = NULL;
   p = &y;
   printf("value of *p = %d\n", *p); // output is 5
}

The above illustrates how we got the address-of y and assigned it to the pointer variable p. Then we dereference p by attaching the * to the front of it to obtain the value of p, i.e. *p.

how to display toolbox on the left side of window of Visual Studio Express for windows phone 7 development?

I had this problem with Blend for Visual Studio 2015. The Toolbox would just not appear anymore. This turns out to be because Blend is not Visual Studio!

(You can edit your code in Blend and build and run it... It certainly seems like Visual Studio, but it isn't. I'm not sure what the purpose of Blend is...)

You can tell you are in Blend if the task bar icon has big "B" in it. To switch from Blend to Visual Studio, go to View-> Edit in Visual Studio.... It will open up another application that looks just like Blend, except the Solution Explorer is on the right instead of the left, and now you have a toolbox...

Show message box in case of exception

If you want just the summary of the exception use:

    try
    {
        test();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }

If you want to see the whole stack trace (usually better for debugging) use:

    try
    {
        test();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
    }

Another method I sometime use is:

    private DoSomthing(int arg1, int arg2, out string errorMessage)
    {
         int result ;
        errorMessage = String.Empty;
        try 
        {           
            //do stuff
            int result = 42;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {

            errorMessage = ex.Message;//OR ex.ToString(); OR Free text OR an custom object
            result = -1;
        }
        return result;
    }

And In your form you will have something like:

    string ErrorMessage;
    int result = DoSomthing(1, 2, out ErrorMessage);
    if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ErrorMessage))
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ErrorMessage);
    }

Javascript document.getElementById("id").value returning null instead of empty string when the element is an empty text box

It seems that you've omitted the value attribute in HTML markup.

Add it there as <input value="" ... >.

What is hashCode used for? Is it unique?

It's not unique to WP7--it's present on all .Net objects. It sort of does what you describe, but I would not recommend it as a unique identifier in your apps, as it is not guaranteed to be unique.

Object.GetHashCode Method

Create Django model or update if exists

It's unclear whether your question is asking for the get_or_create method (available from at least Django 1.3) or the update_or_create method (new in Django 1.7). It depends on how you want to update the user object.

Sample use is as follows:

# In both cases, the call will get a person object with matching
# identifier or create one if none exists; if a person is created,
# it will be created with name equal to the value in `name`.

# In this case, if the Person already exists, its existing name is preserved
person, created = Person.objects.get_or_create(
        identifier=identifier, defaults={"name": name}
)

# In this case, if the Person already exists, its name is updated
person, created = Person.objects.update_or_create(
        identifier=identifier, defaults={"name": name}
)

Android Studio SDK location

I found this a couple of minutes back.

What renders the location unuseful is the fact that it is neither empty nor has the sdk. One of the conditions needs to be met for the folder.

So, try this:

  1. On Windows, go to Control Panel and search for 'show hidden folders and files'. You will find a "Folders" option. On the submenu, you will see "Show hidden files and folders". [The options look like this.][1]

  2. Refer this image. [Click the option shown in the picture][2]

  3. Click apply and ok.

  4. Go to the location i.e. some location in appdata, or the location your android sdk was about to be installed in. The location should be visible now. Go to it and delete everything inside. (Don't delete the sdk folder, just the contents inside it )

  5. Go to android sdk manager and select the same location again. The error should vanish. Happy installation!

In other words, this error only pops up if you had a previous failed installation.

If you're unable to do it still, hit me up at twitter @Vishma Pratim Das and I will be happy to assist you. Thanks. [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6P8S.png [2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/PeRUZ.png

Bootstrap Accordion button toggle "data-parent" not working

If found this alteration to Krzysztof answer helped my issue

$('#' + parentId + ' .collapse').on('show.bs.collapse', function (e) {            
    var all = $('#' + parentId).find('.collapse');
    var actives = $('#' + parentId).find('.in, .collapsing');
    all.each(function (index, element) {
      $(element).collapse('hide');
    })
    actives.each(function (index, element) {                
      $(element).collapse('show');                
    })
})    

if you have nested panels then you may also need to specify which ones by adding another class name to distinguish between them and add this to the a selector in the above JavaScript

Android - how to make a scrollable constraintlayout?

It seems that it is working, I don't know what dependency you were working with but in this one

compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'

Is working, this is what I did

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
            android:id="@+id/til_input"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:hint="Escriba el contenido del archivo"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btn_save"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@id/btn_save"
            app:layout_constraintVertical_chainStyle="spread">

            <EditText
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent" />
        </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_save"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:onClick="onClickButtonSave"
            android:text="Guardar"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/til_input"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/txt_content"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/til_input"
            app:layout_constraintVertical_chainStyle="spread"
            app:layout_constraintVertical_weight="1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_delete"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:onClick="onClickButtonDelete"
            android:text="Eliminar"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/txt_content"
            app:layout_constraintVertical_chainStyle="spread" />

    </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

</ScrollView>

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Split array into chunks

Nowadays you can use lodash' chunk function to split the array into smaller arrays https://lodash.com/docs#chunk No need to fiddle with the loops anymore!

How to negate specific word in regex?

I had a list of file names, and I wanted to exclude certain ones, with this sort of behavior (Ruby):

files = [
  'mydir/states.rb',      # don't match these
  'countries.rb',
  'mydir/states_bkp.rb',  # match these
  'mydir/city_states.rb' 
]
excluded = ['states', 'countries']

# set my_rgx here

result = WankyAPI.filter(files, my_rgx)  # I didn't write WankyAPI...
assert result == ['mydir/city_states.rb', 'mydir/states_bkp.rb']

Here's my solution:

excluded_rgx = excluded.map{|e| e+'\.'}.join('|')
my_rgx = /(^|\/)((?!#{excluded_rgx})[^\.\/]*)\.rb$/

My assumptions for this application:

  • The string to be excluded is at the beginning of the input, or immediately following a slash.
  • The permitted strings end with .rb.
  • Permitted filenames don't have a . character before the .rb.

"Notice: Undefined variable", "Notice: Undefined index", and "Notice: Undefined offset" using PHP

If working with classes you need to make sure you reference member variables using $this:

class Person
{
    protected $firstName;
    protected $lastName;

    public function setFullName($first, $last)
    {
        // Correct
        $this->firstName = $first;

        // Incorrect
        $lastName = $last;

        // Incorrect
        $this->$lastName = $last;
    }
}

How to manage exceptions thrown in filters in Spring?

When you want to test a state of application and in case of a problem return HTTP error I would suggest a filter. The filter below handles all HTTP requests. The shortest solution in Spring Boot with a javax filter.

In the implementation can be various conditions. In my case the applicationManager testing if the application is ready.

import ...ApplicationManager;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

@Component
public class SystemIsReadyFilter implements Filter {

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationManager applicationManager;

    @Override
    public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {}

    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        if (!applicationManager.isApplicationReady()) {
            ((HttpServletResponse) response).sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, "The service is booting.");
        } else {
            chain.doFilter(request, response);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void destroy() {}
}

Why are iframes considered dangerous and a security risk?

As soon as you're displaying content from another domain, you're basically trusting that domain not to serve-up malware.

There's nothing wrong with iframes per se. If you control the content of the iframe, they're perfectly safe.

Addition for BigDecimal

BigDecimal no = new BigDecimal(10); //you can add like this also
no = no.add(new BigDecimal(10));
System.out.println(no);

20

How to find memory leak in a C++ code/project?

MTuner is a free multi platform memory profiling, leak detection and analysis tool supporting MSVC, GCC and Clang compilers. Features include:

  • timeline based history of memory usage and live memory blocks
  • powerful memory operation filtering based on heap, memory tag, time range, etc.
  • SDK for manual instrumentation with full source code
  • continuous integration support through command line usage
  • call stack tree and tree map navigation
  • much more.

Users can profile any software targeting platforms with GCC or Clang cross compilers. MTuner comes with built in support for Windows, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 platforms.

git is not installed or not in the PATH

In my case the issue was not resolved because i did not restart my system. Please make sure you do restart your system.

How to convert a timezone aware string to datetime in Python without dateutil?

There are two issues with the code in the original question: there should not be a : in the timezone and the format string for "timezone as an offset" is lower case %z not upper %Z.

This works for me in Python v3.6

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> t = datetime.strptime("2012-11-01T04:16:13-0400", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")
>>> print(t)
2012-11-01 04:16:13-04:00

Replace spaces with dashes and make all letters lower-case

@CMS's answer is just fine, but I want to note that you can use this package: https://github.com/sindresorhus/slugify, which does it for you and covers many edge cases (i.e., German umlauts, Vietnamese, Arabic, Russian, Romanian, Turkish, etc.).

How to create user for a db in postgresql?

Create the user with a password :

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createuser.html

CREATE USER name [ [ WITH ] option [ ... ] ]

where option can be:

      SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER
    | CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB
    | CREATEROLE | NOCREATEROLE
    | CREATEUSER | NOCREATEUSER
    | INHERIT | NOINHERIT
    | LOGIN | NOLOGIN
    | REPLICATION | NOREPLICATION
    | CONNECTION LIMIT connlimit
    | [ ENCRYPTED | UNENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD 'password'
    | VALID UNTIL 'timestamp'
    | IN ROLE role_name [, ...]
    | IN GROUP role_name [, ...]
    | ROLE role_name [, ...]
    | ADMIN role_name [, ...]
    | USER role_name [, ...]
    | SYSID uid

Then grant the user rights on a specific database :

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-grant.html

Example :

grant all privileges on database db_name to someuser;

MS SQL compare dates?

I am always used DateDiff(day,date1,date2) to compare two date.

Checkout following example. Just copy that and run in Ms sql server. Also, try with change date by 31 dec to 30 dec and check result

BEGIN

declare @firstDate datetime
declare @secondDate datetime


declare @chkDay int

set @firstDate ='2010-12-31 15:13:48.593'
set @secondDate ='2010-12-31 00:00:00.000'

set @chkDay=Datediff(day,@firstDate ,@secondDate )

if @chkDay=0
    Begin
        Print 'Date is Same'
    end
else
    Begin
        Print 'Date is not Same'
    end
End

Remove Select arrow on IE

I would suggest mine solution that you can find in this GitHub repo. This works also for IE8 and IE9 with a custom arrow that comes from an icon font.

Examples of Custom Cross Browser Drop-down in action: check them with all your browsers to see the cross-browser feature.

Anyway, let's start with the modern browsers and then we will see the solution for the older ones.

Drop-down Arrow for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+

For these browser, it is easy to set the same background image for the drop-down in order to have the same arrow.

To do so, you have to reset the browser's default style for the select tag and set new background rules (like suggested before).

select {
    /* you should keep these firsts rules in place to maintain cross-browser behaviour */
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    -o-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;
    background-image: url('<custom_arrow_image_url_here>');
    background-position: 98% center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    outline: none;
    ...
}

The appearance rules are set to none to reset browsers default ones, if you want to have the same aspect for each arrow, you should keep them in place.

The background rules in the examples are set with SVG inline images that represent different arrows. They are positioned 98% from left to keep some margin to the right border (you can easily modify the position as you wish).

In order to maintain the correct cross-browser behavior, the only other rule that have to be left in place is the outline. This rule resets the default border that appears (in some browsers) when the element is clicked. All the others rules can be easily modified if needed.

Drop-down Arrow for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) using Icon Font

This is the harder part... Or maybe not.

There is no standard rule to hide the default arrows for these browsers (like the select::-ms-expand for IE10+). The solution is to hide the part of the drop-down that contains the default arrow and insert an arrow icon font (or a SVG, if you prefer) similar to the SVG that is used in the other browsers (see the select CSS rule for more details about the inline SVG used).

The very first step is to set a class that can recognize the browser: this is the reason why I have used the conditional IE IFs at the beginning of the code. These IFs are used to attach specific classes to the html tag to recognize the older IE browser.

After that, every select in the HTML have to be wrapped by a div (or whatever tag that can wraps an element). At this wrapper just add the class that contains the icon font.

<div class="selectTagWrapper prefix-icon-arrow-down-fill">
    ...
</div>

In easy words, this wrapper is used to simulate the select tag.

To act like a drop-down, the wrapper must have a border, because we hide the one that comes from the select.

Notice that we cannot use the select border because we have to hide the default arrow lengthening it 25% more than the wrapper. Consequently its right border should not be visible because we hide this 25% more by the overflow: hidden rule applied to the select itself.

The custom arrow icon-font is placed in the pseudo class :before where the rule content contains the reference for the arrow (in this case it is a right parenthesis).

We also place this arrow in an absolute position to center it as much as possible (if you use different icon fonts, remember to adjust them opportunely by changing top and left values and the font size).

.ie8 .prefix-icon-arrow-down-fill:before,
.ie9 .prefix-icon-arrow-down-fill:before {
    content: ")";
    position: absolute;
    top: 43%;
    left: 93%;
    font-size: 6px;
    ...
}

You can easily create and substitute the background arrow or the icon font arrow, with every one that you want simply changing it in the background-image rule or making a new icon font file by yourself.

How to count the number of occurrences of a character in an Oracle varchar value?

Here you go:

select length('123-345-566') - length(replace('123-345-566','-',null)) 
from dual;

Technically, if the string you want to check contains only the character you want to count, the above query will return NULL; the following query will give the correct answer in all cases:

select coalesce(length('123-345-566') - length(replace('123-345-566','-',null)), length('123-345-566'), 0) 
from dual;

The final 0 in coalesce catches the case where you're counting in an empty string (i.e. NULL, because length(NULL) = NULL in ORACLE).

Why I've got no crontab entry on OS X when using vim?

Difference between cron and launchd

As has been mentioned cron is deprecated (but supported), and launchd is recommended for OS X.

This is taken from developer.apple.com

Effects of Sleeping and Powering Off

If the system is turned off or asleep, cron jobs do not execute; they will not run until the next designated time occurs.

If you schedule a launchd job by setting the StartCalendarInterval key and the computer is asleep when the job should have run, your job will run when the computer wakes up. However, if the machine is off when the job should have run, the job does not execute until the next designated time occurs.

All other launchd jobs are skipped when the computer is turned off or asleep; they will not run until the next designated time occurs.

Consequently, if the computer is always off at the job’s scheduled time, both cron jobs and launchd jobs never run. For example, if you always turn your computer off at night, a job scheduled to run at 1 A.M. will never be run.

Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server, Failed to register URL, Access is denied

In my case, I had the setting Override application root URL checked, on the Properties->Web tab. I was using that previously when I was running VS as an administrator, but now that I'm running it in a non-admin account, it causes the error.

Can you create nested WITH clauses for Common Table Expressions?

I was trying to measure the time between events with the exception of what one entry that has multiple processes between the start and end. I needed this in the context of other single line processes.

I used a select with an inner join as my select statement within the Nth cte. The second cte I needed to extract the start date on X and end date on Y and used 1 as an id value to left join to put them on a single line.

Works for me, hope this helps.

cte_extract
as 
(
    select ps.Process as ProcessEvent
        , ps.ProcessStartDate 
        , ps.ProcessEndDate 
        -- select strt.*
    from dbo.tbl_some_table ps 
    inner join (select max(ProcessStatusId) ProcessStatusId 
                    from dbo.tbl_some_table 
                where Process = 'some_extract_tbl' 
                and convert(varchar(10), ProcessStartDate, 112) < '29991231'
                ) strt on strt.ProcessStatusId = ps.ProcessStatusID
), 
cte_rls
as 
(
    select 'Sample' as ProcessEvent, 
     x.ProcessStartDate, y.ProcessEndDate  from (
    select 1 as Id, ps.Process as ProcessEvent
        , ps.ProcessStartDate 
        , ps.ProcessEndDate
        -- select strt.*
    from dbo.tbl_some_table ps 
    inner join (select max(ProcessStatusId) ProcessStatusId 
                    from dbo.tbl_some_table 
                where Process = 'XX Prcss' 
                and convert(varchar(10), ProcessStartDate, 112) < '29991231'
                ) strt on strt.ProcessStatusId = ps.ProcessStatusID
    ) x
    left join (
        select 1 as Id, ps.Process as ProcessEvent
            , ps.ProcessStartDate 
            , ps.ProcessEndDate
            -- select strt.*
        from dbo.tbl_some_table ps 
        inner join (select max(ProcessStatusId) ProcessStatusId
                    from dbo.tbl_some_table 
                    where Process = 'YY Prcss Cmpltd' 
                    and convert(varchar(10), ProcessEndDate, 112) < '29991231'
                    ) enddt on enddt.ProcessStatusId = ps.ProcessStatusID
            ) y on y.Id = x.Id 
),

.... other ctes

cannot resolve symbol javafx.application in IntelliJ Idea IDE

You might have a lower project language level than your JDK.

Check if: "Projeckt structure/project/Project-> language level" is lower than your JDK. I had the same problem with JDK 9 and the language level was per default set to 6.

I set the Project Language Level to 9 and everything worked fine after that.

You might have the same issue.

CSS selector based on element text?

I know it's not exactly what you are looking for, but maybe it'll help you.

You can try use a jQuery selector :contains(), add a class and then do a normal style for a class.

iOS - UIImageView - how to handle UIImage image orientation

If I understand, what you want to do is disregard the orientation of the UIImage? If so then you could do this:

UIImage *originalImage = [... whatever ...];

UIImage *imageToDisplay =
     [UIImage imageWithCGImage:[originalImage CGImage]
              scale:[originalImage scale]
              orientation: UIImageOrientationUp];

So you're creating a new UIImage with the same pixel data as the original (referenced via its CGImage property) but you're specifying an orientation that doesn't rotate the data.

Switch statement for string matching in JavaScript

Just use the location.host property

switch (location.host) {
    case "xxx.local":
        settings = ...
        break;
    case "xxx.dev.yyy.com":
        settings = ...
        break;
}

vagrant login as root by default

This is useful:

sudo passwd root

for anyone who's been caught out by the need to set a root password in vagrant first

JavaScript: Collision detection

Here's a very simple bounding rectangle routine. It expects both a and b to be objects with x, y, width and height properties:

function isCollide(a, b) {
    return !(
        ((a.y + a.height) < (b.y)) ||
        (a.y > (b.y + b.height)) ||
        ((a.x + a.width) < b.x) ||
        (a.x > (b.x + b.width))
    );
}

To see this function in action, here's a codepen graciously made by @MixerOID.

Insert line after first match using sed

Sed command that works on MacOS (at least, OS 10) and Unix alike (ie. doesn't require gnu sed like Gilles' (currently accepted) one does):

sed -e '/CLIENTSCRIPT="foo"/a\'$'\n''CLIENTSCRIPT2="hello"' file

This works in bash and maybe other shells too that know the $'\n' evaluation quote style. Everything can be on one line and work in older/POSIX sed commands. If there might be multiple lines matching the CLIENTSCRIPT="foo" (or your equivalent) and you wish to only add the extra line the first time, you can rework it as follows:

sed -e '/^ *CLIENTSCRIPT="foo"/b ins' -e b -e ':ins' -e 'a\'$'\n''CLIENTSCRIPT2="hello"' -e ': done' -e 'n;b done' file

(this creates a loop after the line insertion code that just cycles through the rest of the file, never getting back to the first sed command again).

You might notice I added a '^ *' to the matching pattern in case that line shows up in a comment, say, or is indented. Its not 100% perfect but covers some other situations likely to be common. Adjust as required...

These two solutions also get round the problem (for the generic solution to adding a line) that if your new inserted line contains unescaped backslashes or ampersands they will be interpreted by sed and likely not come out the same, just like the \n is - eg. \0 would be the first line matched. Especially handy if you're adding a line that comes from a variable where you'd otherwise have to escape everything first using ${var//} before, or another sed statement etc.

This solution is a little less messy in scripts (that quoting and \n is not easy to read though), when you don't want to put the replacement text for the a command at the start of a line if say, in a function with indented lines. I've taken advantage that $'\n' is evaluated to a newline by the shell, its not in regular '\n' single-quoted values.

Its getting long enough though that I think perl/even awk might win due to being more readable.

Chart creating dynamically. in .net, c#

Try to include these lines on your code, after mych.Visible = true;:

ChartArea chA = new ChartArea();
mych.ChartAreas.Add(chA);

How do I release memory used by a pandas dataframe?

It seems there is an issue with glibc that affects the memory allocation in Pandas: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/2659

The monkey patch detailed on this issue has resolved the problem for me:

# monkeypatches.py

# Solving memory leak problem in pandas
# https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/2659#issuecomment-12021083
import pandas as pd
from ctypes import cdll, CDLL
try:
    cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6")
    libc = CDLL("libc.so.6")
    libc.malloc_trim(0)
except (OSError, AttributeError):
    libc = None

__old_del = getattr(pd.DataFrame, '__del__', None)

def __new_del(self):
    if __old_del:
        __old_del(self)
    libc.malloc_trim(0)

if libc:
    print('Applying monkeypatch for pd.DataFrame.__del__', file=sys.stderr)
    pd.DataFrame.__del__ = __new_del
else:
    print('Skipping monkeypatch for pd.DataFrame.__del__: libc or malloc_trim() not found', file=sys.stderr)

How can I add shadow to the widget in flutter?

Use Material with shadowColor inside Container like this:

Container(
  decoration: BoxDecoration(
      borderRadius: BorderRadius.only(
          bottomLeft: Radius.circular(10),
          bottomRight: Radius.circular(10)),
      boxShadow: [
        BoxShadow(
            color: Color(0xffA22447).withOpacity(.05),
            offset: Offset(0, 0),
            blurRadius: 20,
            spreadRadius: 3)
      ]),
  child: Material(
    borderRadius: BorderRadius.only(
        bottomLeft: Radius.circular(10),
        bottomRight: Radius.circular(10)),
    elevation: 5,
    shadowColor: Color(0xffA22447).withOpacity(.05),
    color: Color(0xFFF7F7F7),
    child: SizedBox(
      height: MediaQuery.of(context).size.height / 3,
    ),
  ),
)

How to place and center text in an SVG rectangle

alignment-baseline is not the right attribute to use here. The correct answer is to use a combination of dominant-baseline="central" and text-anchor="middle":

_x000D_
_x000D_
<svg width="200" height="100">_x000D_
    <g>_x000D_
        <rect x="0" y="0" width="200" height="100" style="stroke:red; stroke-width:3px; fill:white;"/>_x000D_
        <text x="50%" y="50%" style="dominant-baseline:central; text-anchor:middle; font-size:40px;">TEXT</text>_x000D_
    </g>_x000D_
</svg>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Partly JSON unmarshal into a map in Go

This can be accomplished by Unmarshaling into a map[string]json.RawMessage.

var objmap map[string]json.RawMessage
err := json.Unmarshal(data, &objmap)

To further parse sendMsg, you could then do something like:

var s sendMsg
err = json.Unmarshal(objmap["sendMsg"], &s)

For say, you can do the same thing and unmarshal into a string:

var str string
err = json.Unmarshal(objmap["say"], &str)

EDIT: Keep in mind you will also need to export the variables in your sendMsg struct to unmarshal correctly. So your struct definition would be:

type sendMsg struct {
    User string
    Msg  string
}

Example: https://play.golang.org/p/OrIjvqIsi4-

use Lodash to sort array of object by value

You can use lodash sortBy (https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.4#sortBy).

Your code could be like:

const myArray = [  
   {  
      "id":25,
      "name":"Anakin Skywalker",
      "createdAt":"2017-04-12T12:48:55.000Z",
      "updatedAt":"2017-04-12T12:48:55.000Z"
   },
   {  
      "id":1,
      "name":"Luke Skywalker",
      "createdAt":"2017-04-12T11:25:03.000Z",
      "updatedAt":"2017-04-12T11:25:03.000Z"
   }
]

const myOrderedArray = _.sortBy(myArray, o => o.name)

How to efficiently change image attribute "src" from relative URL to absolute using jQuery?

change image captcha refresh

html:

 <img id="captcha_img" src="http://localhost/captcha.php" /> 

jquery:

$("#captcha_img").click(function()
    {
        var capt_rand=Math.floor((Math.random() * 9999) + 1);
        $("#captcha_img").attr("src","http://localhost/captcha.php?" + capt_rand);
    });

Programmatically Install Certificate into Mozilla

Here is an alternative way that doesn't override the existing certificates: [bash fragment for linux systems]

certificateFile="MyCa.cert.pem"
certificateName="MyCA Name" 
for certDB in $(find  ~/.mozilla* ~/.thunderbird -name "cert8.db")
do
  certDir=$(dirname ${certDB});
  #log "mozilla certificate" "install '${certificateName}' in ${certDir}"
  certutil -A -n "${certificateName}" -t "TCu,Cuw,Tuw" -i ${certificateFile} -d ${certDir}
done

You may find certutil in the libnss3-tools package (debian/ubuntu).

Source:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150622023251/http://www.computer42.org:80/xwiki-static/exported/DevNotes/xwiki.DevNotes.Firefox.html

See also:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/tools/NSS_Tools_certutil

Text editor to open big (giant, huge, large) text files

Free read-only viewers:

  • Large Text File Viewer (Windows) – Fully customizable theming (colors, fonts, word wrap, tab size). Supports horizontal and vertical split view. Also support file following and regex search. Very fast, simple, and has small executable size.
  • klogg (Windows, macOS, Linux) – A maintained fork of glogg, its main feature is regular expression search. It can also watch files, allows the user to mark lines, and has serious optimizations built in. But from a UI standpoint, it's ugly and clunky.
  • LogExpert (Windows) – "A GUI replacement for tail." It's really a log file analyzer, not a large file viewer, and in one test it required 10 seconds and 700 MB of RAM to load a 250 MB file. But its killer features are the columnizer (parse logs that are in CSV, JSONL, etc. and display in a spreadsheet format) and the highlighter (show lines with certain words in certain colors). Also supports file following, tabs, multifiles, bookmarks, search, plugins, and external tools.
  • Lister (Windows) – Very small and minimalist. It's one executable, barely 500 KB, but it still supports searching (with regexes), printing, a hex editor mode, and settings.
  • loxx (Windows) – Supports file following, highlighting, line numbers, huge files, regex, multiple files and views, and much more. The free version can not: process regex, filter files, synchronize timestamps, and save changed files.

Free editors:

  • Your regular editor or IDE. Modern editors can handle surprisingly large files. In particular, Vim (Windows, macOS, Linux), Emacs (Windows, macOS, Linux), Notepad++ (Windows), Sublime Text (Windows, macOS, Linux), and VS Code (Windows, macOS, Linux) support large (~4 GB) files, assuming you have the RAM.
  • Large File Editor (Windows) – Opens and edits TB+ files, supports Unicode, uses little memory, has XML-specific features, and includes a binary mode.
  • GigaEdit (Windows) – Supports searching, character statistics, and font customization. But it's buggy – with large files, it only allows overwriting characters, not inserting them; it doesn't respect LF as a line terminator, only CRLF; and it's slow.

Builtin programs (no installation required):

  • less (macOS, Linux) – The traditional Unix command-line pager tool. Lets you view text files of practically any size. Can be installed on Windows, too.
  • Notepad (Windows) – Decent with large files, especially with word wrap turned off.
  • MORE (Windows) – This refers to the Windows MORE, not the Unix more. A console program that allows you to view a file, one screen at a time.

Web viewers:

Paid editors:

  • 010 Editor (Windows, macOS, Linux) – Opens giant (as large as 50 GB) files.
  • SlickEdit (Windows, macOS, Linux) – Opens large files.
  • UltraEdit (Windows, macOS, Linux) – Opens files of more than 6 GB, but the configuration must be changed for this to be practical: Menu » Advanced » Configuration » File Handling » Temporary Files » Open file without temp file...
  • EmEditor (Windows) – Handles very large text files nicely (officially up to 248 GB, but as much as 900 GB according to one report).
  • BssEditor (Windows) – Handles large files and very long lines. Don’t require an installation. Free for non commercial use.

Best practice for partial updates in a RESTful service

You should use PATCH for partial updates - either using json-patch documents (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-08 or http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/09/05/patch) or the XML patch framework (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5261). In my opinion though, json-patch is the best fit for your kind of business data.

PATCH with JSON/XML patch documents has very strait forward semantics for partial updates. If you start using POST, with modified copies of the original document, for partial updates you soon run into problems where you want missing values (or, rather, null values) to represent either "ignore this property" or "set this property to the empty value" - and that leads down a rabbit hole of hacked solutions that in the end will result in your own kind of patch format.

You can find a more in-depth answer here: http://soabits.blogspot.dk/2013/01/http-put-patch-or-post-partial-updates.html.

What is key=lambda

A lambda is an anonymous function:

>>> f = lambda: 'foo'
>>> print f()
foo

It is often used in functions such as sorted() that take a callable as a parameter (often the key keyword parameter). You could provide an existing function instead of a lambda there too, as long as it is a callable object.

Take the sorted() function as an example. It'll return the given iterable in sorted order:

>>> sorted(['Some', 'words', 'sort', 'differently'])
['Some', 'differently', 'sort', 'words']

but that sorts uppercased words before words that are lowercased. Using the key keyword you can change each entry so it'll be sorted differently. We could lowercase all the words before sorting, for example:

>>> def lowercased(word): return word.lower()
...
>>> lowercased('Some')
'some'
>>> sorted(['Some', 'words', 'sort', 'differently'], key=lowercased)
['differently', 'Some', 'sort', 'words']

We had to create a separate function for that, we could not inline the def lowercased() line into the sorted() expression:

>>> sorted(['Some', 'words', 'sort', 'differently'], key=def lowercased(word): return word.lower())
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    sorted(['Some', 'words', 'sort', 'differently'], key=def lowercased(word): return word.lower())
                                                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

A lambda on the other hand, can be specified directly, inline in the sorted() expression:

 >>> sorted(['Some', 'words', 'sort', 'differently'], key=lambda word: word.lower())
['differently', 'Some', 'sort', 'words']

Lambdas are limited to one expression only, the result of which is the return value.

There are loads of places in the Python library, including built-in functions, that take a callable as keyword or positional argument. There are too many to name here, and they often play a different role.

SVG fill color transparency / alpha?

To change transparency on an svg code the simplest way is to open it on any text editor and look for the style attributes. It depends on the svg creator the way the styles are displayed. As i am an Inkscape user the usual way it set the style values is through a style tag just as if it were html but using svg native attributes like fill, stroke, stroke-width, opacity and so on. opacity affects the whole svg object, or path or group in which its stated and fill-opacity, stroke-opacity will affect just the fill and the stroke transparency. That said, I have also used and tasted to just use fill and instead of using#fff use instead the rgba standard like this rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) just as in css. This works fine for must modern browsers.

Keep in mind that if you intend to further reedit your svg the best practice, in my experience, is to always keep an untouched version at hand. Inkscape is more flexible with hand changed svgs but Illustrator and CorelDraw may have issues importing and edited svg.

Example

<path style="fill:#ff0000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:#1a1a1a;stroke-width:2px;stroke-opacity:1" d="m 144.44226,461.14425 q 16.3125,-15.05769 37.64423,-15.05769 21.33173,0 36.38942,15.05769 15.0577,15.05769 15.0577,36.38942 0,21.33173 -15.0577,36.38943 -15.05769,16.3125 -36.38942,16.3125 -21.33173,0 -37.64423,-16.3125 -15.05769,-15.0577 -15.05769,-36.38943 0,-21.33173 15.05769,-36.38942 z M 28.99995,35.764435 l 85.32692,0 23.84135,52.701923 386.48078,0 q 10.03846,0 17.5673,7.528847 8.78366,7.528845 8.78366,17.567305 0,7.52885 -2.50962,12.54808 l -94.11058,161.87019 q -13.80288,27.60577 -45.17307,27.60577 l -194.4952,0 -26.35096,40.15385 q -2.50962,6.27404 -2.50962,7.52885 0,6.27404 6.27404,6.27404 l 298.64424,0 0,50.1923 -304.91828,0 q -25.09615,0 -41.40865,-13.80288 -15.05769,-13.80289 -15.05769,-38.89904 0,-15.05769 6.27404,-25.09615 l 38.89903,-63.9952 -92.855766,-189.475962 -52.701924,0 0,-52.701923 z M 401.67784,461.14425 q 15.05769,-15.05769 36.38942,-15.05769 21.33174,0 36.38943,15.05769 16.3125,15.05769 16.3125,36.38942 0,21.33173 -16.3125,36.38943 -15.05769,16.3125 -36.38943,16.3125 -21.33173,0 -36.38942,-16.3125 -15.05769,-15.0577 -15.05769,-36.38943 0,-21.33173 15.05769,-36.38942 z"/>

Example 2

<path style="fill:#ff0000;fill-opacity:.5;stroke:#1a1a1a;stroke-width:2px;stroke-opacity:1" d="m 144.44226,461.14425 q 16.3125,-15.05769 37.64423,-15.05769 21.33173,0 36.38942,15.05769 15.0577,15.05769 15.0577,36.38942 0,21.33173 -15.0577,36.38943 -15.05769,16.3125 -36.38942,16.3125 -21.33173,0 -37.64423,-16.3125 -15.05769,-15.0577 -15.05769,-36.38943 0,-21.33173 15.05769,-36.38942 z M 28.99995,35.764435 l 85.32692,0 23.84135,52.701923 386.48078,0 q 10.03846,0 17.5673,7.528847 8.78366,7.528845 8.78366,17.567305 0,7.52885 -2.50962,12.54808 l -94.11058,161.87019 q -13.80288,27.60577 -45.17307,27.60577 l -194.4952,0 -26.35096,40.15385 q -2.50962,6.27404 -2.50962,7.52885 0,6.27404 6.27404,6.27404 l 298.64424,0 0,50.1923 -304.91828,0 q -25.09615,0 -41.40865,-13.80288 -15.05769,-13.80289 -15.05769,-38.89904 0,-15.05769 6.27404,-25.09615 l 38.89903,-63.9952 -92.855766,-189.475962 -52.701924,0 0,-52.701923 z M 401.67784,461.14425 q 15.05769,-15.05769 36.38942,-15.05769 21.33174,0 36.38943,15.05769 16.3125,15.05769 16.3125,36.38942 0,21.33173 -16.3125,36.38943 -15.05769,16.3125 -36.38943,16.3125 -21.33173,0 -36.38942,-16.3125 -15.05769,-15.0577 -15.05769,-36.38943 0,-21.33173 15.05769,-36.38942 z"/>

Example 3

<path style="fill:rgba(255, 0, 0, .5;stroke:#1a1a1a;stroke-width:2px;stroke-opacity:1" d="m 144.44226,461.14425 q 16.3125,-15.05769 37.64423,-15.05769 21.33173,0 36.38942,15.05769 15.0577,15.05769 15.0577,36.38942 0,21.33173 -15.0577,36.38943 -15.05769,16.3125 -36.38942,16.3125 -21.33173,0 -37.64423,-16.3125 -15.05769,-15.0577 -15.05769,-36.38943 0,-21.33173 15.05769,-36.38942 z M 28.99995,35.764435 l 85.32692,0 23.84135,52.701923 386.48078,0 q 10.03846,0 17.5673,7.528847 8.78366,7.528845 8.78366,17.567305 0,7.52885 -2.50962,12.54808 l -94.11058,161.87019 q -13.80288,27.60577 -45.17307,27.60577 l -194.4952,0 -26.35096,40.15385 q -2.50962,6.27404 -2.50962,7.52885 0,6.27404 6.27404,6.27404 l 298.64424,0 0,50.1923 -304.91828,0 q -25.09615,0 -41.40865,-13.80288 -15.05769,-13.80289 -15.05769,-38.89904 0,-15.05769 6.27404,-25.09615 l 38.89903,-63.9952 -92.855766,-189.475962 -52.701924,0 0,-52.701923 z M 401.67784,461.14425 q 15.05769,-15.05769 36.38942,-15.05769 21.33174,0 36.38943,15.05769 16.3125,15.05769 16.3125,36.38942 0,21.33173 -16.3125,36.38943 -15.05769,16.3125 -36.38943,16.3125 -21.33173,0 -36.38942,-16.3125 -15.05769,-15.0577 -15.05769,-36.38943 0,-21.33173 15.05769,-36.38942 z"/>

Notice that in the last example the fill-opacity has been removed as rgba standard covers both color and alpha channel.

how to run command "mysqladmin flush-hosts" on Amazon RDS database Server instance?

Since the hosts is blocked. try connect it from other host and execute the mysqladmin flush-hosts command.

mysqladmin -h <RDS ENDPOINT URL> -P <PORT> -u <USER> -p flush-hosts

Forcing anti-aliasing using css: Is this a myth?

Oh yes you can:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
font-smoothing: antialiased;

Source for Firefox, thanks Justin for the heads up.

Regex not operator

You could capture the (2001) part and replace the rest with nothing.

public static string extractYearString(string input) {
    return input.replaceAll(".*\(([0-9]{4})\).*", "$1");
}

var subject = "(2001) (asdf) (dasd1123_asd 21.01.2011 zqge)(dzqge) name (20019)";
var result = extractYearString(subject);
System.out.println(result); // <-- "2001"

.*\(([0-9]{4})\).* means

  • .* match anything
  • \( match a ( character
  • ( begin capture
  • [0-9]{4} any single digit four times
  • ) end capture
  • \) match a ) character
  • .* anything (rest of string)

Comment shortcut Android Studio

I use this sequence (not a 'linear' shortcut but useful anyway):

  • alt+c then alt+b (holding alt) for block comment
  • alt+c then alt+l (holding alt) for line comment

(they use the android studio menu)

Where can I find Android source code online?

Everything is mirrored on omapzoom.org. Some of the code is also mirrored on github.

Contacts is here for example.

Since December 2019, you can use the new official public code search tool for AOSP: cs.android.com. There's also the Android official source browser (based on Gitiles) has a web view of many of the different parts that make up android. Some of the projects (such as Kernel) have been removed and it now only points you to clonable git repositories.

To get all the code locally, you can use the repo helper program, or you can just clone individual repositories.

And others:

Get the year from specified date php

You can achieve your goal by using php date() & explode() functions:

$date = date("2068-06-15");

$date_arr = explode("-", $date);

$yr = $date_arr[0];

echo $yr;

That is it. Happy coding :)

Only numbers. Input number in React

I tried to mimic your code and noticed that there's an issue on React with <input type='number' />. For workaround, check this example and try it yourself: https://codepen.io/zvona/pen/WjpKJX?editors=0010

You need to define it as normal input (type='text') with pattern for numbers only:

    <input type="text" pattern="[0-9]*"
     onInput={this.handleChange.bind(this)} value={this.state.financialGoal} />

And then to compare the validity of input:

const financialGoal = (evt.target.validity.valid) ? 
  evt.target.value : this.state.financialGoal;

The biggest caveat on this approach is when it comes to mobile --> where keyboard isn't in numeric but in normal alphabetic format.

How do I exit a while loop in Java?

To exit a while loop, use Break; This will not allow to loop to process any conditions that are placed inside, make sure to have this inside the loop, as you cannot place it outside the loop

How to create a DataTable in C# and how to add rows?

DataTable dt=new DataTable();
Datacolumn Name = new DataColumn("Name");
Name.DataType= typeoff(string);
Name.AllowDBNull=false; //set as null or not the default is true i.e null
Name.MaxLength=20; //sets the length the default is -1 which is max(no limit)
dt.Columns.Add(Name);
Datacolumn Age = new DataColumn("Age", typeoff(int));`

dt.Columns.Add(Age);

DataRow dr=dt.NewRow();

dr["Name"]="Mohammad Adem"; // or dr[0]="Mohammad Adem";
dr["Age"]=33; // or dr[1]=33;
dt.add.rows(dr);
dr=dt.NewRow();

dr["Name"]="Zahara"; // or dr[0]="Zahara";
dr["Age"]=22; // or dr[1]=22;
dt.rows.add(dr);
Gv.DataSource=dt;
Gv.DataBind();

Chrome says my extension's manifest file is missing or unreadable

Mine also was funny. While copypasting " manifest.json" from the tutorial, i also managed to copy a leading space. Couldn't get why it's not finding it.

How to filter input type="file" dialog by specific file type?

See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_accept.asp:

The accept attribute is supported in all major browsers, except Internet Explorer and Safari. Definition and Usage

The accept attribute specifies the types of files that the server accepts (that can be submitted through a file upload).

Note: The accept attribute can only be used with <input type="file">.

Tip: Do not use this attribute as a validation tool. File uploads should be validated on the server.

Syntax <input accept="audio/*|video/*|image/*|MIME_type" />

Tip: To specify more than one value, separate the values with a comma (e.g. <input accept="audio/*,video/*,image/*" />.

Pretty-print an entire Pandas Series / DataFrame

You can also use the option_context, with one or more options:

with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', None):  # more options can be specified also
    print(df)

This will automatically return the options to their previous values.

If you are working on jupyter-notebook, using display(df) instead of print(df) will use jupyter rich display logic (like so).

How to detect when cancel is clicked on file input?

We achieved in angular like below.

    1. bind click event on input type file.
      1. Attach focus event with window and add condition if uploadPanel is true then show console.
      2. when click on input type file the boolean uploadPanel value is true. and dialogue box appear.
      3. when cancel OR Esc button click then dialogue box dispensary and console appear.

HTML

 <input type="file" formControlName="FileUpload" click)="handleFileInput($event.target.files)" />
          />

TS

this.uploadPanel = false;
handleFileInput(files: FileList) {
    this.fileToUpload = files.item(0);
    console.log("ggg" + files);
    this.uploadPanel = true;
  }



@HostListener("window:focus", ["$event"])
  onFocus(event: FocusEvent): void {
    if (this.uploadPanel == true) {
        console.log("cancel clicked")
        this.addSlot
        .get("FileUpload")
        .setValidators([
          Validators.required,
          FileValidator.validate,
          requiredFileType("png")
        ]);
      this.addSlot.get("FileUpload").updateValueAndValidity();
    }
  }

On npm install: Unhandled rejection Error: EACCES: permission denied

sudo npm install --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

This was the one that worked for me

Get all Attributes from a HTML element with Javascript/jQuery

Use .slice to convert the attributes property to Array

The attributes property of DOM nodes is a NamedNodeMap, which is an Array-like object.

An Array-like object is an object which has a length property and whose property names are enumerated, but otherwise has its own methods and does not inherit from Array.prototype

The slice method can be used to convert Array-like objects to a new Array.

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    attrs = Array.prototype.slice.call(elem.attributes);_x000D_
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console.log(attrs);
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<span name="test" message="test2">See console.</span>
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Abstract methods in Java

Abstract methods means there is no default implementation for it and an implementing class will provide the details.

Essentially, you would have

abstract class AbstractObject {
   public abstract void method();
}

class ImplementingObject extends AbstractObject {
  public void method() {
    doSomething();
  }
}

So, it's exactly as the error states: your abstract method can not have a body.

There's a full tutorial on Oracle's site at: http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/abstract.html

The reason you would do something like this is if multiple objects can share some behavior, but not all behavior.

A very simple example would be shapes:

You can have a generic graphic object, which knows how to reposition itself, but the implementing classes will actually draw themselves.

(This is taken from the site I linked above)

abstract class GraphicObject {
    int x, y;
    ...
    void moveTo(int newX, int newY) {
        ...
    }
    abstract void draw();
    abstract void resize();
}

class Circle extends GraphicObject {
    void draw() {
        ...
    }
    void resize() {
        ...
    }
}
class Rectangle extends GraphicObject {
    void draw() {
        ...
    }
    void resize() {
        ...
    }
}

Using JQuery to check if no radio button in a group has been checked

if (!$("input[name='html_elements']:checked").val()) {
   alert('Nothing is checked!');
}
else {
  alert('One of the radio buttons is checked!');
}

Understanding the Gemfile.lock file

It looks to me like PATH lists the first-generation dependencies directly from your gemspec, whereas GEM lists second-generation dependencies (i.e. what your dependencies depend on) and those from your Gemfile. PATH::remote is . because it relied on a local gemspec in the current directory to find out what belongs in PATH::spec, whereas GEM::remote is rubygems.org, since that's where it had to go to find out what belongs in GEM::spec.

In a Rails plugin, you'll see a PATH section, but not in a Rails app. Since the app doesn't have a gemspec file, there would be nothing to put in PATH.

As for DEPENDENCIES, gembundler.com states:

Runtime dependencies in your gemspec are treated like base dependencies, 
and development dependencies are added by default to the group, :development

The Gemfile generated by rails plugin new my_plugin says something similar:

# Bundler will treat runtime dependencies like base dependencies, and
# development dependencies will be added by default to the :development group.

What this means is that the difference between

s.add_development_dependency "july" # (1)

and

s.add_dependency "july" # (2)

is that (1) will only include "july" in Gemfile.lock (and therefore in the application) in a development environment. So when you run bundle install, you'll see "july" not only under PATH but also under DEPENDENCIES, but only in development. In production, it won't be there at all. However, when you use (2), you'll see "july" only in PATH, not in DEPENDENCIES, but it will show up when you bundle install from a production environment (i.e. in some other gem that includes yours as a dependency), not only development.

These are just my observations and I can't fully explain why any of this is the way it is but I welcome further comments.

What is Shelving in TFS?

If you're using Gated builds, when a build is triggered, it creates a shelveset of your workspace that is submitted for build. If the build fails, the shelveset is rejected. If the build is successful, a changeset is created and committed to TFS. In either event, the person doing that check-in/build will have to reconcile the workspace, which is as simple as performing a Get Latest.

What is a NoReverseMatch error, and how do I fix it?

The NoReverseMatch error is saying that Django cannot find a matching url pattern for the url you've provided in any of your installed app's urls.

The NoReverseMatch exception is raised by django.core.urlresolvers when a matching URL in your URLconf cannot be identified based on the parameters supplied.

To start debugging it, you need to start by disecting the error message given to you.

  • NoReverseMatch at /my_url/

    This is the url that is currently being rendered, it is this url that your application is currently trying to access but it contains a url that cannot be matched

  • Reverse for 'my_url_name'

    This is the name of the url that it cannot find

  • with arguments '()' and

    These are the non-keyword arguments its providing to the url

  • keyword arguments '{}' not found.

    These are the keyword arguments its providing to the url

  • n pattern(s) tried: []

    These are the patterns that it was able to find in your urls.py files that it tried to match against

Start by locating the code in your source relevant to the url that is currently being rendered - the url, the view, and any templates involved. In most cases, this will be the part of the code you're currently developing.

Once you've done this, read through the code in the order that django would be following until you reach the line of code that is trying to construct a url for your my_url_name. Again, this is probably in a place you've recently changed.

Now that you've discovered where the error is occuring, use the other parts of the error message to work out the issue.

The url name

  • Are there any typos?
  • Have you provided the url you're trying to access the given name?
  • If you have set app_name in the app's urls.py (e.g. app_name = 'my_app') or if you included the app with a namespace (e.g. include('myapp.urls', namespace='myapp'), then you need to include the namespace when reversing, e.g. {% url 'myapp:my_url_name' %} or reverse('myapp:my_url_name').

Arguments and Keyword Arguments

The arguments and keyword arguments are used to match against any capture groups that are present within the given url which can be identified by the surrounding () brackets in the url pattern.

Assuming the url you're matching requires additional arguments, take a look in the error message and first take a look if the value for the given arguments look to be correct.

If they aren't correct:

  • The value is missing or an empty string

    This generally means that the value you're passing in doesn't contain the value you expect it to be. Take a look where you assign the value for it, set breakpoints, and you'll need to figure out why this value doesn't get passed through correctly.

  • The keyword argument has a typo

    Correct this either in the url pattern, or in the url you're constructing.

If they are correct:

  • Debug the regex

    You can use a website such as regexr to quickly test whether your pattern matches the url you think you're creating, Copy the url pattern into the regex field at the top, and then use the text area to include any urls that you think it should match against.

    Common Mistakes:

    • Matching against the . wild card character or any other regex characters

      Remember to escape the specific characters with a \ prefix

    • Only matching against lower/upper case characters

      Try using either a-Z or \w instead of a-z or A-Z

  • Check that pattern you're matching is included within the patterns tried

    If it isn't here then its possible that you have forgotten to include your app within the INSTALLED_APPS setting (or the ordering of the apps within INSTALLED_APPS may need looking at)

Django Version

In Django 1.10, the ability to reverse a url by its python path was removed. The named path should be used instead.


If you're still unable to track down the problem, then feel free to ask a new question that includes what you've tried, what you've researched (You can link to this question), and then include the relevant code to the issue - the url that you're matching, any relevant url patterns, the part of the error message that shows what django tried to match, and possibly the INSTALLED_APPS setting if applicable.

What does 'git blame' do?

The git blame command annotates lines with information from the revision which last modified the line, and... with Git 2.22 (Q2 2019), will do so faster, because of a performance fix around "git blame", especially in a linear history (which is the norm we should optimize for).

See commit f892014 (02 Apr 2019) by David Kastrup (fedelibre). (Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 4d8c4da, 25 Apr 2019)

blame.c: don't drop origin blobs as eagerly

When a parent blob already has chunks queued up for blaming, dropping the blob at the end of one blame step will cause it to get reloaded right away, doubling the amount of I/O and unpacking when processing a linear history.

Keeping such parent blobs in memory seems like a reasonable optimization that should incur additional memory pressure mostly when processing the merges from old branches.

This view is not constrained vertically. At runtime it will jump to the left unless you add a vertical constraint

If Inferring the Constraints still gives you the error, just use this code:

app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"

How do I change a PictureBox's image?

Assign a new Image object to your PictureBox's Image property. To load an Image from a file, you may use the Image.FromFile method. In your particular case, assuming the current directory is one under bin, this should load the image bin/Pics/image1.jpg, for example:

pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("../Pics/image1.jpg");

Additionally, if these images are static and to be used only as resources in your application, resources would be a much better fit than files.

Extracting numbers from vectors of strings

Update Since extract_numeric is deprecated, we can use parse_number from readr package.

library(readr)
parse_number(years)

Here is another option with extract_numeric

library(tidyr)
extract_numeric(years)
#[1] 20  1

C: printf a float value

Try these to clarify the issue of right alignment in float point printing

printf(" 4|%4.1lf\n", 8.9);
printf("04|%04.1lf\n", 8.9);

the output is

 4| 8.9
04|08.9

Floating Point Exception C++ Why and what is it?

for (i>0; i--;)

is probably wrong and should be

for (; i>0; i--)

instead. Note where I put the semicolons. The condition goes in the middle, not at the start.

SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

This can simply also mean you are missing or have too many parentheses. For example this has too many, and will result in unexpected EOF:

print(9, not (a==7 and b==6)

What is the command for cut copy paste a file from one directory to other directory

use the xclip which is command line interface to X selections

install

apt-get install xclip

usage

echo "test xclip " > /tmp/test.xclip
xclip -i < /tmp/test.xclip
xclip -o > /tmp/test.xclip.out

cat /tmp/test.xclip.out   # "test xclip"

enjoy.

Hibernate Union alternatives

I have to agree with Vladimir. I too looked into using UNION in HQL and couldn't find a way around it. The odd thing was that I could find (in the Hibernate FAQ) that UNION is unsupported, bug reports pertaining to UNION marked 'fixed', newsgroups of people saying that the statements would be truncated at UNION, and other newsgroups of people reporting it works fine... After a day of mucking with it, I ended up porting my HQL back to plain SQL, but doing it in a View in the database would be a good option. In my case, parts of the query were dynamically generated, so I had to build the SQL in the code instead.

How do I check whether a checkbox is checked in jQuery?

$(selector).attr('checked') !== undefined

This returns true if the input is checked and false if it is not.

How to define a circle shape in an Android XML drawable file?

This is a simple circle as a drawable in Android.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="oval">

   <solid 
       android:color="#666666"/>

   <size 
       android:width="120dp"
        android:height="120dp"/>
</shape>

In C#, should I use string.Empty or String.Empty or "" to intitialize a string?

I think the second is "proper," but to be honest I don't think it will matter. The compiler should be smart enough to compile any of those to the exact same bytecode. I use "" myself.

Entity Framework 5 Updating a Record

foreach(PropertyInfo propertyInfo in original.GetType().GetProperties()) {
    if (propertyInfo.GetValue(updatedUser, null) == null)
        propertyInfo.SetValue(updatedUser, propertyInfo.GetValue(original, null), null);
}
db.Entry(original).CurrentValues.SetValues(updatedUser);
db.SaveChanges();

Class method differences in Python: bound, unbound and static

Unbound Methods

Unbound methods are methods that are not bound to any particular class instance yet.

Bound Methods

Bound methods are the ones which are bound to a specific instance of a class.

As its documented here, self can refer to different things depending on the function is bound, unbound or static.

Take a look at the following example:

class MyClass:    
    def some_method(self):
        return self  # For the sake of the example

>>> MyClass().some_method()
<__main__.MyClass object at 0x10e8e43a0># This can also be written as:>>> obj = MyClass()

>>> obj.some_method()
<__main__.MyClass object at 0x10ea12bb0>

# Bound method call:
>>> obj.some_method(10)
TypeError: some_method() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

# WHY IT DIDN'T WORK?
# obj.some_method(10) bound call translated as
# MyClass.some_method(obj, 10) unbound method and it takes 2 
# arguments now instead of 1 

# ----- USING THE UNBOUND METHOD ------
>>> MyClass.some_method(10)
10

Since we did not use the class instance — obj — on the last call, we can kinda say it looks like a static method.

If so, what is the difference between MyClass.some_method(10) call and a call to a static function decorated with a @staticmethod decorator?

By using the decorator, we explicitly make it clear that the method will be used without creating an instance for it first. Normally one would not expect the class member methods to be used without the instance and accesing them can cause possible errors depending on the structure of the method.

Also, by adding the @staticmethod decorator, we are making it possible to be reached through an object as well.

class MyClass:    
    def some_method(self):
        return self    

    @staticmethod
    def some_static_method(number):
        return number

>>> MyClass.some_static_method(10)   # without an instance
10
>>> MyClass().some_static_method(10)   # Calling through an instance
10

You can’t do the above example with the instance methods. You may survive the first one (as we did before) but the second one will be translated into an unbound call MyClass.some_method(obj, 10) which will raise a TypeError since the instance method takes one argument and you unintentionally tried to pass two.

Then, you might say, “if I can call static methods through both an instance and a class, MyClass.some_static_method and MyClass().some_static_method should be the same methods.” Yes!

Git cli: get user info from username

Add my two cents, if you're using windows commnad line:

git config --list | findstr user.name will give username directly.

The findstr here is quite similar to grep in linux.

How to export database schema in Oracle to a dump file

It depends on which version of Oracle? Older versions require exp (export), newer versions use expdp (data pump); exp was deprecated but still works most of the time.

Before starting, note that Data Pump exports to the server-side Oracle "directory", which is an Oracle symbolic location mapped in the database to a physical location. There may be a default directory (DATA_PUMP_DIR), check by querying DBA_DIRECTORIES:

  SQL> select * from dba_directories;

... and if not, create one

  SQL> create directory DATA_PUMP_DIR as '/oracle/dumps';
  SQL> grant all on directory DATA_PUMP_DIR to myuser;    -- DBAs dont need this grant

Assuming you can connect as the SYSTEM user, or another DBA, you can export any schema like so, to the default directory:

 $ expdp system/manager schemas=user1 dumpfile=user1.dpdmp

Or specifying a specific directory, add directory=<directory name>:

 C:\> expdp system/manager schemas=user1 dumpfile=user1.dpdmp directory=DUMPDIR

With older export utility, you can export to your working directory, and even on a client machine that is remote from the server, using:

 $ exp system/manager owner=user1 file=user1.dmp

Make sure the export is done in the correct charset. If you haven't setup your environment, the Oracle client charset may not match the DB charset, and Oracle will do charset conversion, which may not be what you want. You'll see a warning, if so, then you'll want to repeat the export after setting NLS_LANG environment variable so the client charset matches the database charset. This will cause Oracle to skip charset conversion.

Example for American UTF8 (UNIX):

 $ export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8

Windows uses SET, example using Japanese UTF8:

 C:\> set NLS_LANG=Japanese_Japan.AL32UTF8

More info on Data Pump here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28319/dp_export.htm#g1022624

Multidimensional Array [][] vs [,]

One is an array of arrays, and one is a 2d array. The former can be jagged, the latter is uniform.

That is, a double[][] can validly be:

double[][] x = new double[5][];

x[0] = new double[10];
x[1] = new double[5];
x[2] = new double[3];
x[3] = new double[100];
x[4] = new double[1];

Because each entry in the array is a reference to an array of double. With a jagged array, you can do an assignment to an array like you want in your second example:

x[0] = new double[13];

On the second item, because it is a uniform 2d array, you can't assign a 1d array to a row or column, because you must index both the row and column, which gets you down to a single double:

double[,] ServicePoint = new double[10,9];

ServicePoint[0]... // <-- meaningless, a 2d array can't use just one index.

UPDATE:

To clarify based on your question, the reason your #1 had a syntax error is because you had this:

double[][] ServicePoint = new double[10][9];

And you can't specify the second index at the time of construction. The key is that ServicePoint is not a 2d array, but an 1d array (of arrays) and thus since you are creating a 1d array (of arrays), you specify only one index:

double[][] ServicePoint = new double[10][];

Then, when you create each item in the array, each of those are also arrays, so then you can specify their dimensions (which can be different, hence the term jagged array):

ServicePoint[0] = new double[13];
ServicePoint[1] = new double[20];

Hope that helps!

How to set a Postgresql default value datestamp like 'YYYYMM'?

It's a common misconception that you can denormalise like this for performance. Use date_trunc('month', date) for your queries and add an index expression for this if you find it running slow.

Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title'

<style name="Theme.IOSched" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@drawable/window_background</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
</style>

you can not give your own color and backgroud in item windowBackground. give your color in your /color.xml file.

How to compare numbers in bash?

There is also one nice thing some people might not know about:

echo $(( a < b ? a : b ))

This code will print the smallest number out of a and b

Printing newlines with print() in R

You can also use a combination of cat and paste0

cat(paste0("File not supplied.\n", "Usage: ./program F=filename"))

I find this to be more useful when incorporating variables into the printout. For example:

file <- "myfile.txt"
cat(paste0("File not supplied.\n", "Usage: ./program F=", file))

HttpServletRequest to complete URL

I use this method:

public static String getURL(HttpServletRequest req) {

    String scheme = req.getScheme();             // http
    String serverName = req.getServerName();     // hostname.com
    int serverPort = req.getServerPort();        // 80
    String contextPath = req.getContextPath();   // /mywebapp
    String servletPath = req.getServletPath();   // /servlet/MyServlet
    String pathInfo = req.getPathInfo();         // /a/b;c=123
    String queryString = req.getQueryString();          // d=789

    // Reconstruct original requesting URL
    StringBuilder url = new StringBuilder();
    url.append(scheme).append("://").append(serverName);

    if (serverPort != 80 && serverPort != 443) {
        url.append(":").append(serverPort);
    }

    url.append(contextPath).append(servletPath);

    if (pathInfo != null) {
        url.append(pathInfo);
    }
    if (queryString != null) {
        url.append("?").append(queryString);
    }
    return url.toString();
}

Switch case with fallthrough?

If the values are integer then you can use [2-3] or you can use [5,7,8] for non continuous values.

#!/bin/bash
while [ $# -gt 0 ];
do
    case $1 in
    1)
        echo "one"
        ;;
    [2-3])
        echo "two or three"
        ;;
    [4-6])
        echo "four to six"
        ;;
    [7,9])
        echo "seven or nine"
        ;;
    *)
        echo "others"
        ;;
    esac
    shift
done

If the values are string then you can use |.

#!/bin/bash
while [ $# -gt 0 ];
do
    case $1 in
    "one")
        echo "one"
        ;;
    "two" | "three")
        echo "two or three"
        ;;
    *)
        echo "others"
        ;;
    esac
    shift
done

How do I return an int from EditText? (Android)

For now, use an EditText. Use android:inputType="number" to force it to be numeric. Convert the resulting string into an integer (e.g., Integer.parseInt(myEditText.getText().toString())).

In the future, you might consider a NumberPicker widget, once that becomes available (slated to be in Honeycomb).

Escape double quotes for JSON in Python

>>> s = 'my string with \\"double quotes\\" blablabla'
>>> s
'my string with \\"double quotes\\" blablabla'
>>> print s
my string with \"double quotes\" blablabla
>>> 

When you just ask for 's' it escapes the \ for you, when you print it, you see the string a more 'raw' state. So now...

>>> s = """my string with "double quotes" blablabla"""
'my string with "double quotes" blablabla'
>>> print s.replace('"', '\\"')
my string with \"double quotes\" blablabla
>>> 

Can jQuery provide the tag name?

Since I've hit this question once before and it didn't help me in my case (I didn't have a this, but instead had a jQuery selector instance). Calling get() will get you the HTML element, by which you can get the nodeName as mentioned above.

this.nodeName; // In a event handler, 'this' is usually the element the event is called on

or

$('.hello:first-child').get(0).nodeName; // Use 'get' or simply access the jQuery Object like an array
$('.hello:first-child')[0].nodeName;     // will get you the original DOM element object

The simplest possible JavaScript countdown timer?

If you want a real timer you need to use the date object.

Calculate the difference.

Format your string.

window.onload=function(){
      var start=Date.now(),r=document.getElementById('r');
      (function f(){
      var diff=Date.now()-start,ns=(((3e5-diff)/1e3)>>0),m=(ns/60)>>0,s=ns-m*60;
      r.textContent="Registration closes in "+m+':'+((''+s).length>1?'':'0')+s;
      if(diff>3e5){
         start=Date.now()
      }
      setTimeout(f,1e3);
      })();
}

Example

Jsfiddle

not so precise timer

var time=5*60,r=document.getElementById('r'),tmp=time;

setInterval(function(){
    var c=tmp--,m=(c/60)>>0,s=(c-m*60)+'';
    r.textContent='Registration closes in '+m+':'+(s.length>1?'':'0')+s
    tmp!=0||(tmp=time);
},1000);

JsFiddle

Show a div with Fancybox

As far as I know, an input element may not have a href attribute, which is where Fancybox gets its information about the content. The following code uses an a element instead of the input element. Also, this is what I would call the "standard way".

<html>
<head>
  <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/source/jquery.fancybox.pack.js?v=2.0.5"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/source/jquery.fancybox.css?v=2.0.5" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>

<a href="#divForm" id="btnForm">Load Form</a>

<div id="divForm" style="display:none">
  <form action="tbd">
    File: <input type="file" /><br /><br />
    <input type="submit" />
  </form>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function(){
    $("#btnForm").fancybox();
  });
</script>

</body>
</html>

See it in action on JSBin

How to set the java.library.path from Eclipse

None of the solutions above worked for me (Eclipse Juno with JDK 1.7_015). Java could only find the libraries when I moved them from project_folder/lib to project_folder.

Get variable from PHP to JavaScript

It depends on what type of PHP variable you want to use in Javascript. For example, entire PHP objects with class methods cannot be used in Javascript. You can, however, use the built-in PHP JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) functions to convert simple PHP variables into JSON representations. For more information, please read the following links:

You can generate the JSON representation of your PHP variable and then print it into your Javascript code when the page loads. For example:

<script type="text/javascript">
  var foo = <?php echo json_encode($bar); ?>;
</script>

Not able to start Genymotion device

This problem keeps cropping up intermittently on my computer and usually, it happens when my computer is running low on system resources (mostly available RAM) and a sure-fire way to fix this (this at least has always worked for me) is to disable the VirtualBox Host-Only Network adapter and re-enable it.

If you have multiple virtual adapters, you'll have to find out which of those is used by Genymotion's virtual device and disable and re-enable it. You can find that out by starting VirtualBox and looking here: screenshot of VirtualBox running a Genymotion virtual device

You can read about enabling/disabling virtual adapters here

SQL Current month/ year question

DECLARE @CMonth int=null
DECLARE @lCYear int=null

SET @lCYear=(SELECT  DATEPART(YEAR,GETDATE()))
SET @CMonth=(SELECT  DATEPART(MONTH,GETDATE()))

How to Create a Form Dynamically Via Javascript

some thing as follows ::

Add this After the body tag

This is a rough sketch, you will need to modify it according to your needs.

<script>
var f = document.createElement("form");
f.setAttribute('method',"post");
f.setAttribute('action',"submit.php");

var i = document.createElement("input"); //input element, text
i.setAttribute('type',"text");
i.setAttribute('name',"username");

var s = document.createElement("input"); //input element, Submit button
s.setAttribute('type',"submit");
s.setAttribute('value',"Submit");

f.appendChild(i);
f.appendChild(s);

//and some more input elements here
//and dont forget to add a submit button

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(f);

</script>

How to customise the Jackson JSON mapper implicitly used by Spring Boot?

I am answering bit late to this question, but someone, in future, might find this useful. The below approach, besides lots of other approaches, works best, and I personally think would better suit a web application.

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfiguration extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

 ... other configurations

@Override
    public void configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
        builder.serializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL);
        builder.propertyNamingStrategy(PropertyNamingStrategy.CAMEL_CASE_TO_LOWER_CASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES);
        builder.serializationInclusion(Include.NON_EMPTY);
        builder.indentOutput(true).dateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"));
        converters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(builder.build()));
        converters.add(new MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter(builder.createXmlMapper(true).build()));
    }
}

Select records from NOW() -1 Day

when search field is timestamp and you want find records from 0 hours yesterday and 0 hour today use construction

MY_DATE_TIME_FIELD between makedate(year(now()), date_format(now(),'%j')-1) and makedate(year(now()), date_format(now(),'%j'))  

instead

 now() - interval 1 day

How can I remove a specific item from an array?

Removing a particular element/string from an array can be done in a one-liner:

theArray.splice(theArray.indexOf("stringToRemoveFromArray"), 1);

where:

theArray: the array you want to remove something particular from

stringToRemoveFromArray: the string you want to be removed and 1 is the number of elements you want to remove.

NOTE: If "stringToRemoveFromArray" is not located in the array, this will remove the last element of the array.

It's always good practice to check if the element exists in your array first, before removing it.

if (theArray.indexOf("stringToRemoveFromArray") >= 0){
   theArray.splice(theArray.indexOf("stringToRemoveFromArray"), 1);
}

Depending if you have newer or older version of Ecmascript running on your client's computers:

var array=['1','2','3','4','5','6']
var newArray = array.filter((value)=>value!='3');

OR

var array = ['1','2','3','4','5','6'];
var newArray = array.filter(function(item){ return item !== '3' });

Where '3' is the value you want to be removed from the array. The array would then become : ['1','2','4','5','6']

Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536

Remove some jar file from Libs folder and copy to some other folder, And Go to _Project Properties > Select Java Build Path, Select Libraries, Select Add External Jar, Select the Removed jar to your project, Click save, this will be added under Referenced Library instead of Libs folder. Now clean and Run your project. You dont need to add Any code for MultDex. Its simply worked for me.

How can I write output from a unit test?

In VS 2019

  1. in the main VS menu bar click: View -> Test Explorer
  2. Right-click your test method in Test Explorer -> Debug
  3. Click the additional output link as seen in the screenshot below.

enter image description here

You can use:

  • Debug.WriteLine
  • Console.WriteLine
  • TestContext.WriteLine

all will log to the additional output window.

SQL Server Format Date DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM:SS

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx

You can concatenate it:

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 104) + ' ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), GETDATE(), 108)

What is %2C in a URL?

Simple & Easy answer,

The %2C means , comma in URL. when you add the String "abc,defg" in the url as parameter then that comma in the string which is abc , defg is changed to abc%2Cdefg .There is no need to worry about it.

How to get access token from FB.login method in javascript SDK

response.session doesn't work anymore because response.authResponse is the new way to access the response content after the oauth migration.
Check this for details: SDKs & Tools › JavaScript SDK › FB.login

Disabling SSL Certificate Validation in Spring RestTemplate

Security: disable https/TLS certificate hostname check,the following code worked in spring boot rest template

*HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(
        //SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER
        // * @deprecated (4.4) Use {@link org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier}
        new NoopHostnameVerifier()
);*

UITableView - change section header color

iOS 8+

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
        tableView.tableHeaderView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue()
}

How to redirect a url in NGINX

This is the top hit on Google for "nginx redirect". If you got here just wanting to redirect a single location:

location = /content/unique-page-name {
  return 301 /new-name/unique-page-name;
}

How to use boolean 'and' in Python

The correct operator to be used are the keywords 'or' and 'and', which in your example, the correct way to express this would be:

if i == 5 and ii == 10:
    print "i is 5 and ii is 10"

You can refer the details in the "Boolean Operations" section in the language reference.

System.web.mvc missing

I have the same situation: Visual Studio 2010, no NuGet installed, and an ASP.NET application using System.Web.Mvc version 3.

What worked for me, was to set each C# project that uses System.Web.Mvc, to go to References in the Solution Explorer, and set properties on System.Web.Mvc, with Copy Local to true, and Specific Version to false - the last one caused the Version field to show the current version on that machine.

How to get user's high resolution profile picture on Twitter?

for me the "workaround" solution was to remove the "_normal" from the end of the string

Check it out below:

How to make a phone call using intent in Android?

// Java
String mobileNumber = "99XXXXXXXX";
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_DIAL); // Action for what intent called for
intent.setData(Uri.parse("tel: " + mobileNumber)); // Data with intent respective action on intent
startActivity(intent);

// Kotlin
val mobileNumber = "99XXXXXXXX"
val intent = Intent()
intent.action = Intent.ACTION_DIAL // Action for what intent called for
intent.data = Uri.parse("tel: $mobileNumber") // Data with intent respective action on intent
startActivity(intent)

Adding Only Untracked Files

git ls-files -o --exclude-standard gives untracked files, so you can do something like below ( or add an alias to it):

git add $(git ls-files -o --exclude-standard)

jQuery - Trigger event when an element is removed from the DOM

I couldn't get this answer to work with unbinding (despite the update see here), but was able to figure out a way around it. The answer was to create a 'destroy_proxy' special event that triggered a 'destroyed' event. You put the event listener on both 'destroyed_proxy' and 'destroyed', then when you want to unbind, you just unbind the 'destroyed' event:

var count = 1;
(function ($) {
    $.event.special.destroyed_proxy = {
        remove: function (o) {
            $(this).trigger('destroyed');
        }
    }
})(jQuery)

$('.remove').on('click', function () {
    $(this).parent().remove();
});

$('li').on('destroyed_proxy destroyed', function () {
    console.log('Element removed');
    if (count > 2) {
        $('li').off('destroyed');
        console.log('unbinded');
    }
    count++;
});

Here is a fiddle

jQuery event to trigger action when a div is made visible

my solution:

; (function ($) {
$.each([ "toggle", "show", "hide" ], function( i, name ) {
    var cssFn = $.fn[ name ];
    $.fn[ name ] = function( speed, easing, callback ) {
        if(speed == null || typeof speed === "boolean"){
            var ret=cssFn.apply( this, arguments )
            $.fn.triggerVisibleEvent.apply(this,arguments)
            return ret
        }else{
            var that=this
            var new_callback=function(){
                callback.call(this)
                $.fn.triggerVisibleEvent.apply(that,arguments)
            }
            var ret=this.animate( genFx( name, true ), speed, easing, new_callback )
            return ret
        }
    };
});

$.fn.triggerVisibleEvent=function(){
    this.each(function(){
        if($(this).is(':visible')){
            $(this).trigger('visible')
            $(this).find('[data-trigger-visible-event]').triggerVisibleEvent()
        }
    })
}
})(jQuery);

example usage:

if(!$info_center.is(':visible')){
    $info_center.attr('data-trigger-visible-event','true').one('visible',processMoreLessButton)
}else{
    processMoreLessButton()
}

function processMoreLessButton(){
//some logic
}

How to query nested objects?

db.messages.find( { headers : { From: "[email protected]" } } )

This queries for documents where headers equals { From: ... }, i.e. contains no other fields.


db.messages.find( { 'headers.From': "[email protected]" } )

This only looks at the headers.From field, not affected by other fields contained in, or missing from, headers.


Dot-notation docs

changing textbox border colour using javascript

You may try

document.getElementById('name').style.borderColor='#e52213';
document.getElementById('name').style.border='solid';

Reason to Pass a Pointer by Reference in C++?

David's answer is correct, but if it's still a little abstract, here are two examples:

  1. You might want to zero all freed pointers to catch memory problems earlier. C-style you'd do:

    void freeAndZero(void** ptr)
    {
        free(*ptr);
        *ptr = 0;
    }
    
    void* ptr = malloc(...);
    
    ...
    
    freeAndZero(&ptr);
    

    In C++ to do the same, you might do:

    template<class T> void freeAndZero(T* &ptr)
    {
        delete ptr;
        ptr = 0;
    }
    
    int* ptr = new int;
    
    ...
    
    freeAndZero(ptr);
    
  2. When dealing with linked-lists - often simply represented as pointers to a next node:

    struct Node
    {
        value_t value;
        Node* next;
    };
    

    In this case, when you insert to the empty list you necessarily must change the incoming pointer because the result is not the NULL pointer anymore. This is a case where you modify an external pointer from a function, so it would have a reference to pointer in its signature:

    void insert(Node* &list)
    {
        ...
        if(!list) list = new Node(...);
        ...
    }
    

There's an example in this question.

Class has no member named

I know this is a year old but I just came across it with the same problem. My problem was that I didn't have a constructor in my implementation file. I think the problem here could be the comment marks at the end of the header file after the #endif...

Converting rows into columns and columns into rows using R

Simply use the base transpose function t, wrapped with as.data.frame:

final_df <- as.data.frame(t(starting_df))
final_df
     A    B    C    D
a    1    2    3    4
b 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08
c Aaaa Bbbb Cccc Dddd

Above updated. As docendo discimus pointed out, t returns a matrix. As Mark suggested wrapping it with as.data.frame gets back a data frame instead of a matrix. Thanks!

PowerMockito mock single static method and return object

What you want to do is a combination of part of 1 and all of 2.

You need to use the PowerMockito.mockStatic to enable static mocking for all static methods of a class. This means make it possible to stub them using the when-thenReturn syntax.

But the 2-argument overload of mockStatic you are using supplies a default strategy for what Mockito/PowerMock should do when you call a method you haven't explicitly stubbed on the mock instance.

From the javadoc:

Creates class mock with a specified strategy for its answers to interactions. It's quite advanced feature and typically you don't need it to write decent tests. However it can be helpful when working with legacy systems. It is the default answer so it will be used only when you don't stub the method call.

The default default stubbing strategy is to just return null, 0 or false for object, number and boolean valued methods. By using the 2-arg overload, you're saying "No, no, no, by default use this Answer subclass' answer method to get a default value. It returns a Long, so if you have static methods which return something incompatible with Long, there is a problem.

Instead, use the 1-arg version of mockStatic to enable stubbing of static methods, then use when-thenReturn to specify what to do for a particular method. For example:

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.invocation.InvocationOnMock;
import org.mockito.stubbing.Answer;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

class ClassWithStatics {
  public static String getString() {
    return "String";
  }

  public static int getInt() {
    return 1;
  }
}

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(ClassWithStatics.class)
public class StubJustOneStatic {
  @Test
  public void test() {
    PowerMockito.mockStatic(ClassWithStatics.class);

    when(ClassWithStatics.getString()).thenReturn("Hello!");

    System.out.println("String: " + ClassWithStatics.getString());
    System.out.println("Int: " + ClassWithStatics.getInt());
  }
}

The String-valued static method is stubbed to return "Hello!", while the int-valued static method uses the default stubbing, returning 0.

How can I write a heredoc to a file in Bash script?

Note:

The question (how to write a here document (aka heredoc) to a file in a bash script?) has (at least) 3 main independent dimensions or subquestions:

  1. Do you want to overwrite an existing file, append to an existing file, or write to a new file?
  2. Does your user or another user (e.g., root) own the file?
  3. Do you want to write the contents of your heredoc literally, or to have bash interpret variable references inside your heredoc?

(There are other dimensions/subquestions which I don't consider important. Consider editing this answer to add them!) Here are some of the more important combinations of the dimensions of the question listed above, with various different delimiting identifiers--there's nothing sacred about EOF, just make sure that the string you use as your delimiting identifier does not occur inside your heredoc:

  1. To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, substituting variable references inside the heredoc:

    cat << EOF > /path/to/your/file
    This line will write to the file.
    ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted.
    EOF
    
  2. To append an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, substituting variable references inside the heredoc:

    cat << FOE >> /path/to/your/file
    This line will write to the file.
    ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted.
    FOE
    
  3. To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, with the literal contents of the heredoc:

    cat << 'END_OF_FILE' > /path/to/your/file
    This line will write to the file.
    ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted.
    END_OF_FILE
    
  4. To append an existing file (or write to a new file) that you own, with the literal contents of the heredoc:

    cat << 'eof' >> /path/to/your/file
    This line will write to the file.
    ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted.
    eof
    
  5. To overwrite an existing file (or write to a new file) owned by root, substituting variable references inside the heredoc:

    cat << until_it_ends | sudo tee /path/to/your/file
    This line will write to the file.
    ${THIS} will also write to the file, with the variable contents substituted.
    until_it_ends
    
  6. To append an existing file (or write to a new file) owned by user=foo, with the literal contents of the heredoc:

    cat << 'Screw_you_Foo' | sudo -u foo tee -a /path/to/your/file
    This line will write to the file.
    ${THIS} will also write to the file, without the variable contents substituted.
    Screw_you_Foo
    

Is there a way to get a collection of all the Models in your Rails app?

In just one line:

 ActiveRecord::Base.subclasses.map(&:name)

How to add leading zeros for for-loop in shell?

Use the following syntax:

$ for i in {01..05}; do echo "$i"; done
01
02
03
04
05

Disclaimer: Leading zeros only work in >=bash-4.

If you want to use printf, nothing prevents you from putting its result in a variable for further use:

$ foo=$(printf "%02d" 5)
$ echo "${foo}"
05

Connect to Active Directory via LDAP

ldapConnection is the server adres: ldap.example.com Ldap.Connection.Path is the path inside the ADS that you like to use insert in LDAP format.

OU=Your_OU,OU=other_ou,dc=example,dc=com

You start at the deepest OU working back to the root of the AD, then add dc=X for every domain section until you have everything including the top level domain

Now i miss a parameter to authenticate, this works the same as the path for the username

CN=username,OU=users,DC=example,DC=com

Introduction to LDAP

Android Studio - No JVM Installation found

The solution is given in the error itself, Goto My computer(Right click)-->properties-->Advanced system settings-->Environment variables-->Create new variable.

Give the following details to it:

Variable name : JAVA_HOME.

Variable value : (your path to java jdk installation folder).

To find the path for java installation, go to program files in your window installation drive (normally C drive). Find folder named JAVA, in that navigate to JDK folder.

Copy the link address from the top, and paste it in the Variable value .

Now Press Ok and once environment variable gets created restart the android studio.

Hope it helps.

How To have Dynamic SQL in MySQL Stored Procedure

You can pass thru outside the dynamic statement using User-Defined Variables

Server version: 5.6.25-log MySQL Community Server (GPL)

mysql> PREPARE stmt FROM 'select "AAAA" into @a';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Statement prepared

mysql> EXECUTE stmt;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

DEALLOCATE prepare stmt;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select @a;
+------+
| @a   |
+------+
|AAAA  |
+------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

How to handle a lost KeyStore password in Android?

In my case I had upgraded my Android Studio from 2.3 to 3.0.1, When I trying to generate a signed apk for a new update I got "Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect" error. I had my previous Keystore and I was absolutely sure of the password, using them I had updated the app before a couple of times. After searching a lot none of the solutions worked for me. Here is what I did.

  • Opened another project.
  • Imported my project using File/New/Import Project
  • Once Gradle was built I tried to generate a signed apk. Build/Generate signed APK
  • Clicked on "Choose Existing" and provided the path to my Keystore.
  • typed in my key store password
  • selected the key alias
  • typed in my key password (In my case both key store password and key password are the same)
  • Clicked next and provided a path for the new Apk and checked both checkboxes.
  • New APK got generated successfully.

Hope this helps anyone.

Convert Difference between 2 times into Milliseconds?

Try the following:

   DateTime dtStart;
   DateTime dtEnd;

   if (DateTime.TryParse( tb1.Text, out dtStart ) && DateTime.TryParse(tb2.Text, out dtEnd ))
   {
      TimeSpan ts = dtStart - dtEnd;
      double difference = ts.TotalMilliseconds;
   }

TypeError: can't pickle _thread.lock objects

I had the same problem with Pool() in Python 3.6.3.

Error received: TypeError: can't pickle _thread.RLock objects

Let's say we want to add some number num_to_add to each element of some list num_list in parallel. The code is schematically like this:

class DataGenerator:
    def __init__(self, num_list, num_to_add)
        self.num_list = num_list # e.g. [4,2,5,7]
        self.num_to_add = num_to_add # e.g. 1 

        self.run()

    def run(self):
        new_num_list = Manager().list()

        pool = Pool(processes=50)
        results = [pool.apply_async(run_parallel, (num, new_num_list)) 
                      for num in num_list]
        roots = [r.get() for r in results]
        pool.close()
        pool.terminate()
        pool.join()

    def run_parallel(self, num, shared_new_num_list):
        new_num = num + self.num_to_add # uses class parameter
        shared_new_num_list.append(new_num)

The problem here is that self in function run_parallel() can't be pickled as it is a class instance. Moving this parallelized function run_parallel() out of the class helped. But it's not the best solution as this function probably needs to use class parameters like self.num_to_add and then you have to pass it as an argument.

Solution:

def run_parallel(num, shared_new_num_list, to_add): # to_add is passed as an argument
    new_num = num + to_add
    shared_new_num_list.append(new_num)

class DataGenerator:
    def __init__(self, num_list, num_to_add)
        self.num_list = num_list # e.g. [4,2,5,7]
        self.num_to_add = num_to_add # e.g. 1

        self.run()

    def run(self):
        new_num_list = Manager().list()

        pool = Pool(processes=50)
        results = [pool.apply_async(run_parallel, (num, new_num_list, self.num_to_add)) # num_to_add is passed as an argument
                      for num in num_list]
        roots = [r.get() for r in results]
        pool.close()
        pool.terminate()
        pool.join()

Other suggestions above didn't help me.