Programs & Examples On #Xml serialization

This tag refers to serialization technologies which use XML as a data format.

JAXB: How to ignore namespace during unmarshalling XML document?

This is just a modification of lunicon's answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/24387115/3519572) if you want to replace one namespace for another during parsing. And if you want to see what exactly is going on, just uncomment the output lines and set a breakpoint.

public class XMLReaderWithNamespaceCorrection extends StreamReaderDelegate {

    private final String wrongNamespace;
    private final String correctNamespace;

    public XMLReaderWithNamespaceCorrection(XMLStreamReader reader, String wrongNamespace, String correctNamespace) {
        super(reader);

        this.wrongNamespace = wrongNamespace;
        this.correctNamespace = correctNamespace;
    }

    @Override
    public String getAttributeNamespace(int arg0) {
//        System.out.println("--------------------------\n");
//        System.out.println("arg0: " + arg0);
//        System.out.println("getAttributeName: " + getAttributeName(arg0));
//        System.out.println("super.getAttributeNamespace: " + super.getAttributeNamespace(arg0));
//        System.out.println("getAttributeLocalName: " + getAttributeLocalName(arg0));
//        System.out.println("getAttributeType: " + getAttributeType(arg0));
//        System.out.println("getAttributeValue: " + getAttributeValue(arg0));
//        System.out.println("getAttributeValue(correctNamespace, LN):"
//                + getAttributeValue(correctNamespace, getAttributeLocalName(arg0)));
//        System.out.println("getAttributeValue(wrongNamespace, LN):"
//                + getAttributeValue(wrongNamespace, getAttributeLocalName(arg0)));

        String origNamespace = super.getAttributeNamespace(arg0);

        boolean replace = (((wrongNamespace == null) && (origNamespace == null))
                || ((wrongNamespace != null) && wrongNamespace.equals(origNamespace)));
        return replace ? correctNamespace : origNamespace;
    }

    @Override
    public String getNamespaceURI() {
//        System.out.println("getNamespaceCount(): " + getNamespaceCount());
//        for (int i = 0; i < getNamespaceCount(); i++) {
//            System.out.println(i + ": " + getNamespacePrefix(i));
//        }
//
//        System.out.println("super.getNamespaceURI: " + super.getNamespaceURI());

        String origNamespace = super.getNamespaceURI();

        boolean replace = (((wrongNamespace == null) && (origNamespace == null))
                || ((wrongNamespace != null) && wrongNamespace.equals(origNamespace)));
        return replace ? correctNamespace : origNamespace;
    }
}

usage:

InputStream is = new FileInputStream(xmlFile);
XMLStreamReader xsr = XMLInputFactory.newFactory().createXMLStreamReader(is);
XMLReaderWithNamespaceCorrection xr =
    new XMLReaderWithNamespaceCorrection(xsr, "http://wrong.namespace.uri", "http://correct.namespace.uri");
rootJaxbElem = (JAXBElement<SqgRootType>) um.unmarshal(xr);
handleSchemaError(rootJaxbElem, pmRes);

Using StringWriter for XML Serialization

First of all, beware of finding old examples. You've found one that uses XmlTextWriter, which is deprecated as of .NET 2.0. XmlWriter.Create should be used instead.

Here's an example of serializing an object into an XML column:

public void SerializeToXmlColumn(object obj)
{
    using (var outputStream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(outputStream))
        {
            var serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType());
            serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);
        }

        outputStream.Position = 0;
        using (var conn = new SqlConnection(Settings.Default.ConnectionString))
        {
            conn.Open();

            const string INSERT_COMMAND = @"INSERT INTO XmlStore (Data) VALUES (@Data)";
            using (var cmd = new SqlCommand(INSERT_COMMAND, conn))
            {
                using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(outputStream))
                {
                    var xml = new SqlXml(reader);

                    cmd.Parameters.Clear();
                    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Data", xml);
                    cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Serialize an object to XML

my work code. Returns utf8 xml enable empty namespace.

// override StringWriter
public class Utf8StringWriter : StringWriter
{
    public override Encoding Encoding => Encoding.UTF8;
}

private string GenerateXmlResponse(Object obj)
{    
    Type t = obj.GetType();

    var xml = "";

    using (StringWriter sww = new Utf8StringWriter())
    {
        using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sww))
        {
            var ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
            // add empty namespace
            ns.Add("", "");
            XmlSerializer xsSubmit = new XmlSerializer(t);
            xsSubmit.Serialize(writer, obj, ns);
            xml = sww.ToString(); // Your XML
        }
    }
    return xml;
}

Example returns response Yandex api payment Aviso url:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><paymentAvisoResponse xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" performedDatetime="2017-09-01T16:22:08.9747654+07:00" code="0" shopId="54321" invoiceId="12345" orderSumAmount="10643" />

Convert XML String to Object

Another way with an Advanced xsd to c# classes generation Tools : xsd2code.com. This tool is very handy and powerfull. It has a lot more customisation than the xsd.exe tool from Visual Studio. Xsd2Code++ can be customised to use Lists or Arrays and supports large schemas with a lot of Import statements.

Note of some features,

  • Generates business objects from XSD Schema or XML file to flexible C# or Visual Basic code.
  • Support Framework 2.0 to 4.x
  • Support strong typed collection (List, ObservableCollection, MyCustomCollection).
  • Support automatic properties.
  • Generate XML read and write methods (serialization/deserialization).
  • Databinding support (WPF, Xamarin).
  • WCF (DataMember attribute).
  • XML Encoding support (UTF-8/32, ASCII, Unicode, Custom).
  • Camel case / Pascal Case support.
  • restriction support ([StringLengthAttribute=true/false], [RegularExpressionAttribute=true/false], [RangeAttribute=true/false]).
  • Support large and complex XSD file.
  • Support of DotNet Core & standard

Serializing an object as UTF-8 XML in .NET

Your code doesn't get the UTF-8 into memory as you read it back into a string again, so its no longer in UTF-8, but back in UTF-16 (though ideally its best to consider strings at a higher level than any encoding, except when forced to do so).

To get the actual UTF-8 octets you could use:

var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SomeSerializableObject));

var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(memoryStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

serializer.Serialize(streamWriter, entry);

byte[] utf8EncodedXml = memoryStream.ToArray();

I've left out the same disposal you've left. I slightly favour the following (with normal disposal left in):

var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SomeSerializableObject));
using(var memStm = new MemoryStream())
using(var  xw = XmlWriter.Create(memStm))
{
  serializer.Serialize(xw, entry);
  var utf8 = memStm.ToArray();
}

Which is much the same amount of complexity, but does show that at every stage there is a reasonable choice to do something else, the most pressing of which is to serialise to somewhere other than to memory, such as to a file, TCP/IP stream, database, etc. All in all, it's not really that verbose.

Checking if an object is a number in C#

Assuming your input is a string...

There are 2 ways:

use Double.TryParse()

double temp;
bool isNumber = Double.TryParse(input, out temp);

use Regex

 bool isNumber = Regex.IsMatch(input,@"-?\d+(\.\d+)?");

Serialize an object to string

[VB]

Public Function XmlSerializeObject(ByVal obj As Object) As String

    Dim xmlStr As String = String.Empty

    Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
    settings.Indent = False
    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True
    settings.NewLineChars = String.Empty
    settings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.None

    Using stringWriter As New StringWriter()
        Using xmlWriter__1 As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, settings)

            Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer(obj.[GetType]())
            serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter__1, obj)

            xmlStr = stringWriter.ToString()
            xmlWriter__1.Close()
        End Using

        stringWriter.Close()
    End Using

    Return xmlStr.ToString
End Function

Public Function XmlDeserializeObject(ByVal data As [String], ByVal objType As Type) As Object

    Dim xmlSer As New System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(objType)
    Dim reader As TextReader = New StringReader(data)

    Dim obj As New Object
    obj = DirectCast(xmlSer.Deserialize(reader), Object)
    Return obj
End Function

[C#]

public string XmlSerializeObject(object obj)
{
    string xmlStr = String.Empty;
    XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
    settings.Indent = false;
    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
    settings.NewLineChars = String.Empty;
    settings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.None;

    using (StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter())
    {
        using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, settings))
        {
            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer( obj.GetType());
            serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, obj);
            xmlStr = stringWriter.ToString();
            xmlWriter.Close();
        }
    }
    return xmlStr.ToString(); 
}

public object XmlDeserializeObject(string data, Type objType)
{
    XmlSerializer xmlSer = new XmlSerializer(objType);
    StringReader reader = new StringReader(data);

    object obj = new object();
    obj = (object)(xmlSer.Deserialize(reader));
    return obj;
}

XML Serialize generic list of serializable objects

knowTypeList parameter let serialize with DataContractSerializer several known types:

private static void WriteObject(
        string fileName, IEnumerable<Vehichle> reflectedInstances, List<Type> knownTypeList)
    {
        using (FileStream writer = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Append))
        {
            foreach (var item in reflectedInstances)
            {
                var serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(Vehichle), knownTypeList);
                serializer.WriteObject(writer, item);
            }
        }
    }

Reading from memory stream to string

In case of a very large stream length there is the hazard of memory leak due to Large Object Heap. i.e. The byte buffer created by stream.ToArray creates a copy of memory stream in Heap memory leading to duplication of reserved memory. I would suggest to use a StreamReader, a TextWriter and read the stream in chunks of char buffers.

In netstandard2.0 System.IO.StreamReader has a method ReadBlock

you can use this method in order to read the instance of a Stream (a MemoryStream instance as well since Stream is the super of MemoryStream):

private static string ReadStreamInChunks(Stream stream, int chunkLength)
{
    stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    string result;
    using(var textWriter = new StringWriter())
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
    {
        var readChunk = new char[chunkLength];
        int readChunkLength;
        //do while: is useful for the last iteration in case readChunkLength < chunkLength
        do
        {
            readChunkLength = reader.ReadBlock(readChunk, 0, chunkLength);
            textWriter.Write(readChunk,0,readChunkLength);
        } while (readChunkLength > 0);

        result = textWriter.ToString();
    }

    return result;
}

NB. The hazard of memory leak is not fully eradicated, due to the usage of MemoryStream, that can lead to memory leak for large memory stream instance (memoryStreamInstance.Size >85000 bytes). You can use Recyclable Memory stream, in order to avoid LOH. This is the relevant library

{"<user xmlns=''> was not expected.} Deserializing Twitter XML

In my case, my xml had multiple namespaces and attributes. So I used this site to generate the objects - https://xmltocsharp.azurewebsites.net/

And used the below code to deserialize

 XmlDocument doc =  new XmlDocument();
        doc.Load("PathTo.xml");
        User obj;
        using (TextReader textReader = new StringReader(doc.OuterXml))
        {
            using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(textReader))
            {
                XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(User));
                obj = (User)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
            }
        }

Using DataContractSerializer to serialize, but can't deserialize back

This best for XML Deserialize

 public static object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType)
    {

        using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml)))
        {
            System.IO.StreamReader str = new System.IO.StreamReader(memoryStream);
            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xSerializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(toType);
            return xSerializer.Deserialize(str);
        }

    }

Why XML-Serializable class need a parameterless constructor

First of all, this what is written in documentation. I think it is one of your class fields, not the main one - and how you want deserialiser to construct it back w/o parameterless construction ?

I think there is a workaround to make constructor private.

Serialize Property as Xml Attribute in Element

Kind of, use the XmlAttribute instead of XmlElement, but it won't look like what you want. It will look like the following:

<SomeModel SomeStringElementName="testData"> 
</SomeModel> 

The only way I can think of to achieve what you want (natively) would be to have properties pointing to objects named SomeStringElementName and SomeInfoElementName where the class contained a single getter named "value". You could take this one step further and use DataContractSerializer so that the wrapper classes can be private. XmlSerializer won't read private properties.

// TODO: make the class generic so that an int or string can be used.
[Serializable]  
public class SerializationClass
{
    public SerializationClass(string value)
    {
        this.Value = value;
    }

    [XmlAttribute("value")]
    public string Value { get; }
}


[Serializable]                     
public class SomeModel                     
{                     
    [XmlIgnore]                     
    public string SomeString { get; set; }                     

    [XmlIgnore]                      
    public int SomeInfo { get; set; }  

    [XmlElement]
    public SerializationClass SomeStringElementName
    {
        get { return new SerializationClass(this.SomeString); }
    }               
}

There is an error in XML document (1, 41)

First check the variables declared using proper Datatypes. I had a same problem then I have checked, by mistake I declared SAPUser as int datatype so that the error occurred. One more thing XML file stores its data using concept like array but its first index starts having +1. e.g. if error is in(7,2) then check for 6th line always.....

XmlSerializer giving FileNotFoundException at constructor

Just as reference. Taking from D-B answer and comments, I came with this solution which is close to D-B solution. It works fine in all of my cases and it is thread safe. I don't think that using a ConcurrentDictionary would have been ok.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace HQ.Util.General
{
    public class XmlSerializerHelper
    {
        private static readonly Dictionary<Type, XmlSerializer> _dictTypeToSerializer = new Dictionary<Type, XmlSerializer>();

        public static XmlSerializer GetSerializer(Type type)
        {
            lock (_dictTypeToSerializer)
            {
                XmlSerializer serializer;
                if (! _dictTypeToSerializer.TryGetValue(type, out serializer))
                {
                    var importer = new XmlReflectionImporter();
                    var mapping = importer.ImportTypeMapping(type, null, null);
                    serializer = new XmlSerializer(mapping);
                    return _dictTypeToSerializer[type] = serializer;
                }

                return serializer;
            }
        }
    }
}

Usage:

        if (File.Exists(Path))
        {
            using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Path))
            {
                // XmlSerializer x  = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
                var x = XmlSerializerHelper.GetSerializer(typeof(T));

                try
                {
                    options = (OptionsBase<T>)x.Deserialize(reader);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Log.Instance.AddEntry(LogType.LogException, "Unable to open Options file: " + Path, ex);
                }
            }
        }

XmlSerializer: remove unnecessary xsi and xsd namespaces

I'm using:

public class Person
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        const string DEFAULT_NAMESPACE = "http://www.something.org/schema";
        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Person), DEFAULT_NAMESPACE);
        var namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
        namespaces.Add("", DEFAULT_NAMESPACE);

        using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            var someone = new Person
            {
                FirstName = "Donald",
                LastName = "Duck"
            };
            serializer.Serialize(stream, someone, namespaces);
            stream.Position = 0;
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
            }
        }
    }
}

To get the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Person xmlns="http://www.something.org/schema">
  <FirstName>Donald</FirstName>
  <LastName>Duck</LastName>
</Person>

If you don't want the namespace, just set DEFAULT_NAMESPACE to "".

Omitting all xsi and xsd namespaces when serializing an object in .NET?

After reading Microsoft's documentation and several solutions online, I have discovered the solution to this problem. It works with both the built-in XmlSerializer and custom XML serialization via IXmlSerialiazble.

To wit, I'll use the same MyTypeWithNamespaces XML sample that's been used in the answers to this question so far.

[XmlRoot("MyTypeWithNamespaces", Namespace="urn:Abracadabra", IsNullable=false)]
public class MyTypeWithNamespaces
{
    // As noted below, per Microsoft's documentation, if the class exposes a public
    // member of type XmlSerializerNamespaces decorated with the 
    // XmlNamespacesDeclarationAttribute, then the XmlSerializer will utilize those
    // namespaces during serialization.
    public MyTypeWithNamespaces( )
    {
        this._namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new XmlQualifiedName[] {
            // Don't do this!! Microsoft's documentation explicitly says it's not supported.
            // It doesn't throw any exceptions, but in my testing, it didn't always work.

            // new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, string.Empty),  // And don't do this:
            // new XmlQualifiedName("", "")

            // DO THIS:
            new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, "urn:Abracadabra") // Default Namespace
            // Add any other namespaces, with prefixes, here.
        });
    }

    // If you have other constructors, make sure to call the default constructor.
    public MyTypeWithNamespaces(string label, int epoch) : this( )
    {
        this._label = label;
        this._epoch = epoch;
    }

    // An element with a declared namespace different than the namespace
    // of the enclosing type.
    [XmlElement(Namespace="urn:Whoohoo")]
    public string Label
    {
        get { return this._label; }
        set { this._label = value; }
    }
    private string _label;

    // An element whose tag will be the same name as the property name.
    // Also, this element will inherit the namespace of the enclosing type.
    public int Epoch
    {
        get { return this._epoch; }
        set { this._epoch = value; }
    }
    private int _epoch;

    // Per Microsoft's documentation, you can add some public member that
    // returns a XmlSerializerNamespaces object. They use a public field,
    // but that's sloppy. So I'll use a private backed-field with a public
    // getter property. Also, per the documentation, for this to work with
    // the XmlSerializer, decorate it with the XmlNamespaceDeclarations
    // attribute.
    [XmlNamespaceDeclarations]
    public XmlSerializerNamespaces Namespaces
    {
        get { return this._namespaces; }
    }
    private XmlSerializerNamespaces _namespaces;
}

That's all to this class. Now, some objected to having an XmlSerializerNamespaces object somewhere within their classes; but as you can see, I neatly tucked it away in the default constructor and exposed a public property to return the namespaces.

Now, when it comes time to serialize the class, you would use the following code:

MyTypeWithNamespaces myType = new MyTypeWithNamespaces("myLabel", 42);

/******
   OK, I just figured I could do this to make the code shorter, so I commented out the
   below and replaced it with what follows:

// You have to use this constructor in order for the root element to have the right namespaces.
// If you need to do custom serialization of inner objects, you can use a shortened constructor.
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyTypeWithNamespaces), new XmlAttributeOverrides(),
    new Type[]{}, new XmlRootAttribute("MyTypeWithNamespaces"), "urn:Abracadabra");

******/
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyTypeWithNamespaces),
    new XmlRootAttribute("MyTypeWithNamespaces") { Namespace="urn:Abracadabra" });

// I'll use a MemoryStream as my backing store.
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

// This is extra! If you want to change the settings for the XmlSerializer, you have to create
// a separate XmlWriterSettings object and use the XmlTextWriter.Create(...) factory method.
// So, in this case, I want to omit the XML declaration.
XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings();
xws.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
xws.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; // This is probably the default
// You could use the XmlWriterSetting to set indenting and new line options, but the
// XmlTextWriter class has a much easier method to accomplish that.

// The factory method returns a XmlWriter, not a XmlTextWriter, so cast it.
XmlTextWriter xtw = (XmlTextWriter)XmlTextWriter.Create(ms, xws);
// Then we can set our indenting options (this is, of course, optional).
xtw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;

// Now serialize our object.
xs.Serialize(xtw, myType, myType.Namespaces);

Once you have done this, you should get the following output:

<MyTypeWithNamespaces>
    <Label xmlns="urn:Whoohoo">myLabel</Label>
    <Epoch>42</Epoch>
</MyTypeWithNamespaces>

I have successfully used this method in a recent project with a deep hierachy of classes that are serialized to XML for web service calls. Microsoft's documentation is not very clear about what to do with the publicly accesible XmlSerializerNamespaces member once you've created it, and so many think it's useless. But by following their documentation and using it in the manner shown above, you can customize how the XmlSerializer generates XML for your classes without resorting to unsupported behavior or "rolling your own" serialization by implementing IXmlSerializable.

It is my hope that this answer will put to rest, once and for all, how to get rid of the standard xsi and xsd namespaces generated by the XmlSerializer.

UPDATE: I just want to make sure I answered the OP's question about removing all namespaces. My code above will work for this; let me show you how. Now, in the example above, you really can't get rid of all namespaces (because there are two namespaces in use). Somewhere in your XML document, you're going to need to have something like xmlns="urn:Abracadabra" xmlns:w="urn:Whoohoo. If the class in the example is part of a larger document, then somewhere above a namespace must be declared for either one of (or both) Abracadbra and Whoohoo. If not, then the element in one or both of the namespaces must be decorated with a prefix of some sort (you can't have two default namespaces, right?). So, for this example, Abracadabra is the defalt namespace. I could inside my MyTypeWithNamespaces class add a namespace prefix for the Whoohoo namespace like so:

public MyTypeWithNamespaces
{
    this._namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new XmlQualifiedName[] {
        new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, "urn:Abracadabra"), // Default Namespace
        new XmlQualifiedName("w", "urn:Whoohoo")
    });
}

Now, in my class definition, I indicated that the <Label/> element is in the namespace "urn:Whoohoo", so I don't need to do anything further. When I now serialize the class using my above serialization code unchanged, this is the output:

<MyTypeWithNamespaces xmlns:w="urn:Whoohoo">
    <w:Label>myLabel</w:Label>
    <Epoch>42</Epoch>
</MyTypeWithNamespaces>

Because <Label> is in a different namespace from the rest of the document, it must, in someway, be "decorated" with a namespace. Notice that there are still no xsi and xsd namespaces.

How to serialize an object to XML without getting xmlns="..."?

Ahh... nevermind. It's always the search after the question is posed that yields the answer. My object that is being serialized is obj and has already been defined. Adding an XMLSerializerNamespace with a single empty namespace to the collection does the trick.

In VB like this:

Dim xs As New XmlSerializer(GetType(cEmploymentDetail))
Dim ns As New XmlSerializerNamespaces()
ns.Add("", "")

Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = True

Using ms As New MemoryStream(), _
    sw As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(ms, settings), _
    sr As New StreamReader(ms)
xs.Serialize(sw, obj, ns)
ms.Position = 0
Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd())
End Using

in C# like this:

//Create our own namespaces for the output
XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

//Add an empty namespace and empty value
ns.Add("", "");

//Create the serializer
XmlSerializer slz = new XmlSerializer(someType);

//Serialize the object with our own namespaces (notice the overload)
slz.Serialize(myXmlTextWriter, someObject, ns);

Xml serialization - Hide null values

Additionally to what Chris Taylor wrote: if you have something serialized as an attribute, you can have a property on your class named {PropertyName}Specified to control if it should be serialized. In code:

public class MyClass
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public int MyValue;

    [XmlIgnore]
    public bool MyValueSpecified;
}

Is it possible to deserialize XML into List<T>?

Not sure about List<T> but Arrays are certainly do-able. And a little bit of magic makes it really easy to get to a List again.

public class UserHolder {
   [XmlElement("list")]
   public User[] Users { get; set; }

   [XmlIgnore]
   public List<User> UserList { get { return new List<User>(Users); } }
}

How do I change the font color in an html table?

table td{
  color:#0000ff;
}

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
    <td>
      <select name="test">
        <option value="Basic">Basic : $30.00 USD - yearly</option>
        <option value="Sustaining">Sustaining : $60.00 USD - yearly</option>
        <option value="Supporting">Supporting : $120.00 USD - yearly</option>
      </select>
    </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Find document with array that contains a specific value

For Loopback3 all the examples given did not work for me, or as fast as using REST API anyway. But it helped me to figure out the exact answer I needed.

{"where":{"arrayAttribute":{ "all" :[String]}}}

Linq with group by having count

For anyone looking to do this in vb (as I was and couldn't find anything)

From c In db.Company 
Select c.Name Group By Name Into Group 
Where Group.Count > 1

Windows batch script to unhide files hidden by virus

Try this one. Hope this is working fine.. :)

@ECHO off

cls

ECHO.

set drvltr=

set /p drvltr=Enter Drive letter: 

attrib -s -h -a /s /d  %drvltr%:\*.*

ECHO Unhide Completed

pause

fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'

copying Superfly Jon's comment into an answer:

To create a new branch without committing on master, you can use:

git checkout -b <branchname>

How to have a transparent ImageButton: Android

I believe the accepted answer should be: android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground"

This is the same as @lory105's answer but it uses the support library for maximum compatibility (the android: equivalent is only available for API >= 11)

How can I show and hide elements based on selected option with jQuery?

<script>  
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#colorselector').on('change', function() {
      if ( this.value == 'red')
      {
        $("#divid").show();
      }
      else
      {
        $("#divid").hide();
      }
    });
});
</script>

Do like this for every value

Regex for quoted string with escaping quotes

A more extensive version of https://stackoverflow.com/a/10786066/1794894

/"([^"\\]{50,}(\\.[^"\\]*)*)"|\'[^\'\\]{50,}(\\.[^\'\\]*)*\'|“[^”\\]{50,}(\\.[^“\\]*)*”/   

This version also contains

  1. Minimum quote length of 50
  2. Extra type of quotes (open and close )

Xcode5 "No matching provisioning profiles found issue" (but good at xcode4)

I get the same question as you you can click here :

About the question in xcode5 "no matching provisioning profiles found"

(About xcode5 ?no matching provisioning profiles found )

When I was fitting with iOS7,I get the warning like this:no matching provisioning profiles found. the reason may be that your project is in other group.

Do like this:find the file named *.xcodeproj in your protect,show the content of it.

You will see three files:

  1. project.pbxproj
  2. project.xcworkspace
  3. xcuserdata

open the first, search the uuid and delete the row.

Java Generate Random Number Between Two Given Values

Use Random.nextInt(int).

In your case it would look something like this:

a[i][j] = r.nextInt(101);

How to get RegistrationID using GCM in android

Here I have written a few steps for How to Get RegID and Notification starting from scratch

  1. Create/Register App on Google Cloud
  2. Setup Cloud SDK with Development
  3. Configure project for GCM
  4. Get Device Registration ID
  5. Send Push Notifications
  6. Receive Push Notifications

You can find a complete tutorial here:

Getting Started with Android Push Notification : Latest Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) - step by step complete tutorial

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Code snippet to get Registration ID (Device Token for Push Notification).

Configure project for GCM


Update AndroidManifest file

To enable GCM in our project we need to add a few permissions to our manifest file. Go to AndroidManifest.xml and add this code: Add Permissions

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET”/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />

<uses-permission android:name=“.permission.RECEIVE" />
<uses-permission android:name=“<your_package_name_here>.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" />
<permission android:name=“<your_package_name_here>.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"
        android:protectionLevel="signature" />

Add GCM Broadcast Receiver declaration in your application tag:

<application
        <receiver
            android:name=".GcmBroadcastReceiver"
            android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND" ]]>
            <intent-filter]]>
                <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
                <category android:name="" />
            </intent-filter]]>

        </receiver]]>
     
<application/>

Add GCM Service declaration

<application
     <service android:name=".GcmIntentService" />
<application/>

Get Registration ID (Device Token for Push Notification)

Now Go to your Launch/Splash Activity

Add Constants and Class Variables

private final static int PLAY_SERVICES_RESOLUTION_REQUEST = 9000;
public static final String EXTRA_MESSAGE = "message";
public static final String PROPERTY_REG_ID = "registration_id";
private static final String PROPERTY_APP_VERSION = "appVersion";
private final static String TAG = "LaunchActivity";
protected String SENDER_ID = "Your_sender_id";
private GoogleCloudMessaging gcm =null;
private String regid = null;
private Context context= null;

Update OnCreate and OnResume methods

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_launch);
    context = getApplicationContext();
    if (checkPlayServices()) {
        gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(this);
        regid = getRegistrationId(context);

        if (regid.isEmpty()) {
            registerInBackground();
        } else {
            Log.d(TAG, "No valid Google Play Services APK found.");
        }
    }
}

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    checkPlayServices();
}


// # Implement GCM Required methods(Add below methods in LaunchActivity)

private boolean checkPlayServices() {
    int resultCode = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(this);
    if (resultCode != ConnectionResult.SUCCESS) {
        if (GooglePlayServicesUtil.isUserRecoverableError(resultCode)) {
            GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(resultCode, this,
                PLAY_SERVICES_RESOLUTION_REQUEST).show();
        } else {
            Log.d(TAG, "This device is not supported - Google Play Services.");
            finish();
        }
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

private String getRegistrationId(Context context) {
    final SharedPreferences prefs = getGCMPreferences(context);
    String registrationId = prefs.getString(PROPERTY_REG_ID, "");
    if (registrationId.isEmpty()) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Registration ID not found.");
        return "";
    }
    int registeredVersion = prefs.getInt(PROPERTY_APP_VERSION, Integer.MIN_VALUE);
    int currentVersion = getAppVersion(context);
    if (registeredVersion != currentVersion) {
        Log.d(TAG, "App version changed.");
        return "";
    }
    return registrationId;
}

private SharedPreferences getGCMPreferences(Context context) {
    return getSharedPreferences(LaunchActivity.class.getSimpleName(),
        Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
}

private static int getAppVersion(Context context) {
    try {
        PackageInfo packageInfo = context.getPackageManager()
            .getPackageInfo(context.getPackageName(), 0);
        return packageInfo.versionCode;
    } catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Could not get package name: " + e);
    }
}


private void registerInBackground() {
    new AsyncTask() {
        @Override
        protected Object doInBackground(Object...params) {
            String msg = "";
            try {
                if (gcm == null) {
                    gcm = GoogleCloudMessaging.getInstance(context);
                }
                regid = gcm.register(SENDER_ID);
                Log.d(TAG, "########################################");
                Log.d(TAG, "Current Device's Registration ID is: " + msg);
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                msg = "Error :" + ex.getMessage();
            }
            return null;
        }
        protected void onPostExecute(Object result) {
            //to do here
        };
    }.execute(null, null, null);
}

Note : please store REGISTRATION_KEY, it is important for sending PN Message to GCM. Also keep in mind: this key will be unique for all devices and GCM will send Push Notifications by REGISTRATION_KEY only.

jQuery get content between <div> tags

This is probably what you need:

$('div').html();

demo

This says get the div and return all the contents inside it. See more here: http://api.jquery.com/html/

If you had many divs on the page and needed to target just one, you could set an id on the div and call it like so

$('#whatever').html();

where whatever is the id

EDIT

Now that you have clarified your question re this being a string, here is a way to do it with vanilla js:

var l = x.length;
var y = x.indexOf('<div>');
var s = x.slice(y,l);
alert(s);

Demo Here

  1. get the length of the string.
  2. find out where the first div occurs
  3. slice the content there.

Best Java obfuscator?

If a computer can run it, a suitably motivated human can reverse-engineer it.

Pipe to/from the clipboard in Bash script

  xsel -b

Does the job for X Window, and it is mostly already installed. A look in the man page of xsel is worth the effort.

React native ERROR Packager can't listen on port 8081

That picture indeed shows that your 8081 is not in use. If suggestions above haven't helped, and your mobile device is connected to your computer via usb (and you have Android 5.0 (Lollipop) or above) you could try:

$ adb reconnect

This is not necessary in most cases, but just in case, let's reset your connection with your mobile and restart adb server. Finally:

$ adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081

So, whenever your mobile device tries to access any port 8081 on itself it will be routed to the 8081 port on your PC.

Or, one could try

$ killall node

Starting a shell in the Docker Alpine container

ole@T:~$ docker run -it --rm alpine /bin/ash
(inside container) / # 

Options used above:

  • /bin/ash is Ash (Almquist Shell) provided by BusyBox
  • --rm Automatically remove the container when it exits (docker run --help)
  • -i Interactive mode (Keep STDIN open even if not attached)
  • -t Allocate a pseudo-TTY

AngularJs directive not updating another directive's scope

Just wondering why you are using 2 directives?

It seems like, in this case it would be more straightforward to have a controller as the parent - handle adding the data from your service to its $scope, and pass the model you need from there into your warrantyDirective.

Or for that matter, you could use 0 directives to achieve the same result. (ie. move all functionality out of the separate directives and into a single controller).

It doesn't look like you're doing any explicit DOM transformation here, so in this case, perhaps using 2 directives is overcomplicating things.

Alternatively, have a look at the Angular documentation for directives: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive The very last example at the bottom of the page explains how to wire up dependent directives.

Making a UITableView scroll when text field is selected

I think there is no "right" way to do this. You have to choose the best fit solution for your use case. In my iPad App I have a UIViewController that is presented modal as UIModalPresentationFormSheet and consists of an UITableView. This table contains two UITextFields per cell. Just calling scrollToRowAtIndexPath:atScrollPosition:animated: in the textFieldDidBeginEditing: method doesn't work for me. Therefore I have created a tableFooterView:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    m_footerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, m_tableView.frame.size.width, 300.0f)];
    [m_footerView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
    [m_tableView setTableFooterView:m_footerView];
    [m_footerView release];
}

The idea is that keyboard hides the tableFooterView and not the UITextFields. So the tableFooterView must be high enough. After that you can use scrollToRowAtIndexPath:atScrollPosition:animated: in the textFieldDidBeginEditing: method.

I think it's also possible to show and hide the tableFooterView dynamically by adding the observers for the keyboard notifications but I haven't tried it yet:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
                                             selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:) 
                                                 name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification 
                                               object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
                                             selector:@selector(keyboardWillHide:) 
                                                 name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification 
                                               object:nil];
}

- (void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification *)notification 
{
     [m_tableView setTableFooterView:m_footerView];
}

- (void)keyboardWillHide:(NSNotification *)notification 
{
     [m_tableView setTableFooterView:nil];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];
}

Where does Git store files?

In the root directory of the project there is a hidden .git directory that contains configuration, the repository etc.

ASP.NET Web Api: The requested resource does not support http method 'GET'

Same problem as above, but vastly different root. For me, it was that I was hitting an endpoint with an https rewrite rule. Hitting it on http caused the error, worked as expected with https.

Display loading image while post with ajax

<div id="load" style="display:none"><img src="ajax-loader.gif"/></div>

function getData(p){
        var page=p;
        document.getElementById("load").style.display = "block";  // show the loading message.
        $.ajax({
            url: "loadData.php?id=<? echo $id; ?>",
            type: "POST",
            cache: false,
            data: "&page="+ page,
            success : function(html){
                $(".content").html(html);
        document.getElementById("load").style.display = "none";
            }
        });

How do I turn off Oracle password expiration?

For development you can disable password policy if no other profile was set (i.e. disable password expiration in default one):

ALTER PROFILE "DEFAULT" LIMIT PASSWORD_VERIFY_FUNCTION NULL;

Then, reset password and unlock user account. It should never expire again:

alter user user_name identified by new_password account unlock;

Copy files without overwrite

Here it is in batch file form:

@echo off
set source=%1
set dest=%2
for %%f in (%source%\*) do if not exist "%dest%\%%~nxf" copy "%%f" "%dest%\%%~nxf"

"You tried to execute a query that does not include the specified aggregate function"

I had a similar problem in a MS-Access query, and I solved it by changing my equivalent fName to an "Expression" (as opposed to "Group By" or "Sum"). So long as all of my fields were "Expression", the Access query builder did not require any Group By clause at the end.enter image description here

In Django, how do I check if a user is in a certain group?

If a user belongs to a certain group or not, can be checked in django templates using:

{% if group in request.user.groups.all %} "some action" {% endif %}

Spring security CORS Filter

With Spring Security in Spring Boot 2 to configure CORS globally (e.g. enabled all request for development) you can do:

@Bean
protected CorsConfigurationSource corsConfigurationSource() {
    UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource source = new UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource();
    source.registerCorsConfiguration("/**", new CorsConfiguration().applyPermitDefaultValues());
    return source;
}

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http.cors()
            .and().authorizeRequests()
            .anyRequest().permitAll()
            .and().csrf().disable();
}

SQL Server convert string to datetime

UPDATE MyTable SET MyDate = CONVERT(datetime, '2009/07/16 08:28:01', 120)

For a full discussion of CAST and CONVERT, including the different date formatting options, see the MSDN Library Link below:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/cast-and-convert-transact-sql

How to test valid UUID/GUID?

If you are using Node.js for development, it is recommended to use a package called Validator. It includes all the regexes required to validate different versions of UUID's plus you get various other functions for validation.

Here is the npm link: Validator

var a = 'd3aa88e2-c754-41e0-8ba6-4198a34aa0a2'
v.isUUID(a)
true
v.isUUID('abc')
false
v.isNull(a)
false

Center text output from Graphics.DrawString()

Here's some code. This assumes you are doing this on a form, or a UserControl.

Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics();
SizeF size = g.MeasureString("string to measure");

int nLeft = Convert.ToInt32((this.ClientRectangle.Width / 2) - (size.Width / 2));
int nTop = Convert.ToInt32((this.ClientRectangle.Height / 2) - (size.Height / 2));

From your post, it sounds like the ClientRectangle part (as in, you're not using it) is what's giving you difficulty.

Creating csv file with php

Its blank because you are writing to file. you should write to output using php://output instead and also send header information to indicate that it's csv.

Example

header('Content-Type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="sample.csv"');
$data = array(
        'aaa,bbb,ccc,dddd',
        '123,456,789',
        '"aaa","bbb"'
);

$fp = fopen('php://output', 'wb');
foreach ( $data as $line ) {
    $val = explode(",", $line);
    fputcsv($fp, $val);
}
fclose($fp);

UL or DIV vertical scrollbar

You need to define height of ul or your div and set overflow equals to auto as below:

<ul style="width: 300px; height: 200px; overflow: auto">
  <li>text</li>
  <li>text</li>

Why is ZoneOffset.UTC != ZoneId.of("UTC")?

The answer comes from the javadoc of ZoneId (emphasis mine) ...

A ZoneId is used to identify the rules used to convert between an Instant and a LocalDateTime. There are two distinct types of ID:

  • Fixed offsets - a fully resolved offset from UTC/Greenwich, that uses the same offset for all local date-times
  • Geographical regions - an area where a specific set of rules for finding the offset from UTC/Greenwich apply

Most fixed offsets are represented by ZoneOffset. Calling normalized() on any ZoneId will ensure that a fixed offset ID will be represented as a ZoneOffset.

... and from the javadoc of ZoneId#of (emphasis mine):

This method parses the ID producing a ZoneId or ZoneOffset. A ZoneOffset is returned if the ID is 'Z', or starts with '+' or '-'.

The argument id is specified as "UTC", therefore it will return a ZoneId with an offset, which also presented in the string form:

System.out.println(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC));
System.out.println(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("UTC")));

Outputs:

2017-03-10T08:06:28.045Z
2017-03-10T08:06:28.045Z[UTC]

As you use the equals method for comparison, you check for object equivalence. Because of the described difference, the result of the evaluation is false.

When the normalized() method is used as proposed in the documentation, the comparison using equals will return true, as normalized() will return the corresponding ZoneOffset:

Normalizes the time-zone ID, returning a ZoneOffset where possible.

now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC)
    .equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("UTC").normalized())); // true

As the documentation states, if you use "Z" or "+0" as input id, of will return the ZoneOffset directly and there is no need to call normalized():

now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC).equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Z"))); //true
now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC).equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("+0"))); //true

To check if they store the same date time, you can use the isEqual method instead:

now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneOffset.UTC)
    .isEqual(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("UTC"))); // true

Sample

System.out.println("equals - ZoneId.of(\"UTC\"): " + nowZoneOffset
        .equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("UTC"))));
System.out.println("equals - ZoneId.of(\"UTC\").normalized(): " + nowZoneOffset
        .equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("UTC").normalized())));
System.out.println("equals - ZoneId.of(\"Z\"): " + nowZoneOffset
        .equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("Z"))));
System.out.println("equals - ZoneId.of(\"+0\"): " + nowZoneOffset
        .equals(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("+0"))));
System.out.println("isEqual - ZoneId.of(\"UTC\"): "+ nowZoneOffset
        .isEqual(now.withZoneSameInstant(ZoneId.of("UTC"))));

Output:

equals - ZoneId.of("UTC"): false
equals - ZoneId.of("UTC").normalized(): true
equals - ZoneId.of("Z"): true
equals - ZoneId.of("+0"): true
isEqual - ZoneId.of("UTC"): true

Link to Flask static files with url_for

In my case I had special instruction into nginx configuration file:

location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
    }

All clients have received '404' because nginx nothing known about Flask.

I hope it help someone.

Python conversion between coordinates

You can use the cmath module.

If the number is converted to a complex format, then it becomes easier to just call the polar method on the number.

import cmath
input_num = complex(1, 2) # stored as 1+2j
r, phi = cmath.polar(input_num)

Perform an action in every sub-directory using Bash

the accepted answer will break on white spaces if the directory names have them, and the preferred syntax is $() for bash/ksh. Use GNU find -exec option with +; eg

find .... -exec mycommand +; #this is same as passing to xargs

or use a while loop

find .... | while read -r D
do
    # use variable `D` or whatever variable name you defined instead here
done 

How to open maximized window with Javascript?

If I use Firefox then screen.width and screen.height works fine but in IE and Chrome they don't work properly instead it opens with the minimum size.

And yes I tried giving too large numbers too like 10000 for both height and width but not exactly the maximized effect.

How do you completely remove the button border in wpf?

Try this

<Button BorderThickness="0"  
    Style="{StaticResource {x:Static ToolBar.ButtonStyleKey}}" >...

understanding private setters

A private setter is useful if you have a read only property and don't want to explicitly declare the backing variable.

So:

public int MyProperty
{
    get; private set;
}

is the same as:

private int myProperty;
public int MyProperty
{
    get { return myProperty; }
}

For non auto implemented properties it gives you a consistent way of setting the property from within your class so that if you need validation etc. you only have it one place.

To answer your final question the MSDN has this to say on private setters:

However, for small classes or structs that just encapsulate a set of values (data) and have little or no behaviors, it is recommended to make the objects immutable by declaring the set accessor as private.

From the MSDN page on Auto Implemented properties

How do I remove blank pages coming between two chapters in Appendix?

One thing I discovered is that using the \include command will often insert and extra blank page. Riffing on the previous trick with the \let command, I inserted \let\include\input near the beginning of the document, and that got rid of most of the excessive blank pages.

Change font color and background in html on mouseover

You'd better use CSS for this:

td{
    background-color:black;
    color:white;
}
td:hover{
    background-color:white;
    color:black;
}

If you want to use these styles for only a specific set of elements, you should give your td a class (or an ID, if it's the only element which'll have that style).

Example :

HTML

<td class="whiteHover"></td>

CSS

.whiteHover{
    /* Same style as above */
}

Here's a reference on MDN for :hover pseudo class.

Android and setting alpha for (image) view alpha

It's easier than the other response. There is an xml value alpha that takes double values.

android:alpha="0.0" thats invisible

android:alpha="0.5" see-through

android:alpha="1.0" full visible

That's how it works.

jquery Ajax call - data parameters are not being passed to MVC Controller action

You need add -> contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready( function() {
      $('#btnTest').click( function() {
        $.ajax({
          type: "POST", 
          url: "/Login/Test",
          data: { ListID: '1', ItemName: 'test' },
          dataType: "json",
          contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
          success: function(response) { alert(response); },
          error: function(xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) { alert(xhr.responseText); }
        });
      });
    });
</script>

How to get element value in jQuery

Most probably, you want something like this:

$("#list li").click(function() {
        var selected = $(this).html();
        alert(selected);
});

How to break out of the IF statement

I think I know why people would want this. "Run stuff if all conditions are true, otherwise run other stuff". And the conditions are too complicated to put into one if.

Just use a lambda!

if (new Func<bool>(() =>
{
    if (something1)
    {
        if (something2)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
})())
{
    //do stuff
}

How to make pylab.savefig() save image for 'maximized' window instead of default size

I did the same search time ago, it seems that he exact solution depends on the backend.

I have read a bunch of sources and probably the most useful was the answer by Pythonio here How to maximize a plt.show() window using Python I adjusted the code and ended up with the function below. It works decently for me on windows, I mostly use Qt, where I use it quite often, while it is minimally tested with other backends.

Basically it consists in identifying the backend and calling the appropriate function. Note that I added a pause afterwards because I was having issues with some windows getting maximized and others not, it seems this solved for me.

def maximize(backend=None,fullscreen=False):
    """Maximize window independently on backend.
    Fullscreen sets fullscreen mode, that is same as maximized, but it doesn't have title bar (press key F to toggle full screen mode)."""
    if backend is None:
        backend=matplotlib.get_backend()
    mng = plt.get_current_fig_manager()

    if fullscreen:
        mng.full_screen_toggle()
    else:
        if backend == 'wxAgg':
            mng.frame.Maximize(True)
        elif backend == 'Qt4Agg' or backend == 'Qt5Agg':
            mng.window.showMaximized()
        elif backend == 'TkAgg':
            mng.window.state('zoomed') #works fine on Windows!
        else:
            print ("Unrecognized backend: ",backend) #not tested on different backends (only Qt)
    plt.show()

    plt.pause(0.1) #this is needed to make sure following processing gets applied (e.g. tight_layout)

How can I refresh a page with jQuery?

You can write it in two ways. 1st is the standard way of reloading the page also called as simple refresh

location.reload(); //simple refresh

And another is called the hard refresh. Here you pass the boolean expression and set it to true. This will reload the page destroying the older cache and displaying the contents from scratch.

location.reload(true);//hard refresh

How to install sklearn?

You didn't provide us which operating system are you on? If it is a Linux, make sure you have scipy installed as well, after that just do

pip install -U scikit-learn

If you are on windows you might want to check out these pages.

pip: no module named _internal

I tried the following command to solve the issue and it worked for me:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py --force-reinstall

Hadoop cluster setup - java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

Make sure HDFS is online. Start it by $HADOOP_HOME/sbin/start-dfs.sh Once you do that, your test with telnet localhost 9001should work.

Check if all elements in a list are identical

This is a simple way of doing it:

result = mylist and all(mylist[0] == elem for elem in mylist)

This is slightly more complicated, it incurs function call overhead, but the semantics are more clearly spelled out:

def all_identical(seq):
    if not seq:
        # empty list is False.
        return False
    first = seq[0]
    return all(first == elem for elem in seq)

tsql returning a table from a function or store procedure

You can't access Temporary Tables from within a SQL Function. You will need to use table variables so essentially:

ALTER FUNCTION FnGetCompanyIdWithCategories()
RETURNS  @rtnTable TABLE 
(
    -- columns returned by the function
    ID UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL,
    Name nvarchar(255) NOT NULL
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @TempTable table (id uniqueidentifier, name nvarchar(255)....)

insert into @myTable 
select from your stuff

--This select returns data
insert into @rtnTable
SELECT ID, name FROM @mytable 
return
END

Edit

Based on comments to this question here is my recommendation. You want to join the results of either a procedure or table-valued function in another query. I will show you how you can do it then you pick the one you prefer. I am going to be using sample code from one of my schemas, but you should be able to adapt it. Both are viable solutions first with a stored procedure.

declare @table as table (id int, name nvarchar(50),templateid int,account nvarchar(50))

insert into @table
execute industry_getall

select * 
from @table 
inner join [user] 
    on account=[user].loginname

In this case, you have to declare a temporary table or table variable to store the results of the procedure. Now Let's look at how you would do this if you were using a UDF

select *
from fn_Industry_GetAll()
inner join [user] 
    on account=[user].loginname

As you can see the UDF is a lot more concise easier to read, and probably performs a little bit better since you're not using the secondary temporary table (performance is a complete guess on my part).

If you're going to be reusing your function/procedure in lots of other places, I think the UDF is your best choice. The only catch is you will have to stop using #Temp tables and use table variables. Unless you're indexing your temp table, there should be no issue, and you will be using the tempDb less since table variables are kept in memory.

Entity Framework Provider type could not be loaded?

I just had the same error message.

I have a separate project for my data access. Running the Web Project (which referenced the data project) locally worked just fine. But when I deployed the web project to azure the assembly: EntityFramework.SqlServer was not copied. I just added the reference to the web project and redeployed, now it works.

hope this helps others

selected value get from db into dropdown select box option using php mysql error

Just Add an extra hidden option and print selected value from database

<option value="<?php echo $options;?>" hidden><?php echo $options;?></option>
<option value="PHP">PHP</option>
<option value="ASP">ASP</option>

What is a postback?

Postback refers to HTML forms. An HTML form has 2 methods: GET and POST. These methods determine how data is sent from the client via the form, to the server. A Postback is the action of POSTing back to the submitting page. In essence, it forms a complete circuit from the client, to the server, and back again.

How to show progress dialog in Android?

when you call in oncreate()

new LoginAsyncTask ().execute();

Here how to use in flow..

ProgressDialog progressDialog;

  private class LoginAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
  @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        progressDialog= new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
        progressDialog.setMessage("Please wait...");
        progressDialog.show();
        super.onPreExecute();
    }

     protected Void doInBackground(Void... args) {
        // Parsse response data
        return null;
     }

     protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        if (progressDialog.isShowing())
                        progressDialog.dismiss();
        //move activity
        super.onPostExecute(result);
     }
 }

What is the difference between `let` and `var` in swift?

Source: https://thenucleargeeks.com/2019/04/10/swift-let-vs-var/

When you declare a variable with var, it means it can be updated, it is variable, it’s value can be modified.

When you declare a variable with let, it means it cannot be updated, it is non variable, it’s value cannot be modified.

var a = 1 
print (a) // output 1
a = 2
print (a) // output 2

let b = 4
print (b) // output 4
b = 5 // error "Cannot assign to value: 'b' is a 'let' constant"

Let us understand above example: We have created a new variable “a” with “var keyword” and assigned the value “1”. When I print “a” I get output as 1. Then I assign 2 to “var a” i.e I’m modifying value of variable “a”. I can do it without getting compiler error because I declared it as var.

In the second scenario I created a new variable “b” with “let keyword” and assigned the value “4”. When I print “b” I got 4 as output. Then I try to assign 5 to “let b” i.e. I’m trying to modify the “let” variable and I get compile time error “Cannot assign to value: ‘b’ is a ‘let’ constant”.

JAX-RS — How to return JSON and HTTP status code together?

If you like to keep your resource layer clean of Response objects, then I recommend you use @NameBinding and binding to implementations of ContainerResponseFilter.

Here's the meat of the annotation:

package my.webservice.annotations.status;

import javax.ws.rs.NameBinding;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

@NameBinding
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface Status {
  int CREATED = 201;
  int value();
}

Here's the meat of the filter:

package my.webservice.interceptors.status;

import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerResponseContext;
import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerResponseFilter;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
import java.io.IOException;

@Provider
public class StatusFilter implements ContainerResponseFilter {

  @Override
  public void filter(ContainerRequestContext containerRequestContext, ContainerResponseContext containerResponseContext) throws IOException {
    if (containerResponseContext.getStatus() == 200) {
      for (Annotation annotation : containerResponseContext.getEntityAnnotations()) {
        if(annotation instanceof Status){
          containerResponseContext.setStatus(((Status) annotation).value());
          break;
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

And then the implementation on your resource simply becomes:

package my.webservice.resources;

import my.webservice.annotations.status.StatusCreated;
import javax.ws.rs.*;

@Path("/my-resource-path")
public class MyResource{
  @POST
  @Status(Status.CREATED)
  public boolean create(){
    return true;
  }
}

Nested JSON: How to add (push) new items to an object?

If your JSON is without key you can do it like this:

library[library.length] = {"foregrounds" : foregrounds,"backgrounds" : backgrounds};

So, try this:

var library = {[{
    "title"       : "Gold Rush",
        "foregrounds" : ["Slide 1","Slide 2","Slide 3"],
        "backgrounds" : ["1.jpg","","2.jpg"]
    }, {
    "title"       : California",
        "foregrounds" : ["Slide 1","Slide 2","Slide 3"],
        "backgrounds" : ["3.jpg","4.jpg","5.jpg"]
    }]
}

Then:

library[library.length] = {"title" : "Gold Rush", "foregrounds" : ["Howdy","Slide 2"], "backgrounds" : ["1.jpg",""]};

PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream

Experienced the same error, for me it was caused because on my Mac I have changed the DocumentRoot to my users Sites directory.

To fix it, I ran the recursive command to ensure that the Apache service has read permissions.

sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Sites

Catch multiple exceptions at once?

With C# 7 the answer from Michael Stum can be improved while keeping the readability of a switch statement:

catch (Exception ex)
{
    switch (ex)
    {
        case FormatException _:
        case OverflowException _:
            WebId = Guid.Empty;
            break;
        default:
            throw;
    }
}

And with C# 8 as switch expression:

catch (Exception ex)
{
    WebId = ex switch
    {
        _ when ex is FormatException || ex is OverflowException => Guid.Empty,
        _ => throw ex
    };
}

How to change the value of ${user} variable used in Eclipse templates

It seems that your best bet is to redefine the java user.name variable either at your command line, or using the eclipse.ini file in your eclipse install root directory.

This seems to work fine for me:

-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Duser.name=Davide Inglima
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m    

Update:

http://morlhon.net/blog/2005/09/07/eclipse-username/ is a dead link...

Here's a new one: https://web.archive.org/web/20111225025454/http://morlhon.net:80/blog/2005/09/07/eclipse-username/

how do you filter pandas dataframes by multiple columns

You can create your own filter function using query in pandas. Here you have filtering of df results by all the kwargs parameters. Dont' forgot to add some validators(kwargs filtering) to get filter function for your own df.

def filter(df, **kwargs):
    query_list = []
    for key in kwargs.keys():
        query_list.append(f'{key}=="{kwargs[key]}"')
    query = ' & '.join(query_list)
    return df.query(query)

Selecting the last value of a column

In a column with blanks, you can get the last value with

=+sort(G:G,row(G:G)*(G:G<>""),)

JavaScript check if variable exists (is defined/initialized)

The most robust 'is it defined' check is with typeof

if (typeof elem === 'undefined')

If you are just checking for a defined variable to assign a default, for an easy to read one liner you can often do this:

elem = elem || defaultElem;

It's often fine to use, see: Idiomatic way to set default value in javascript

There is also this one liner using the typeof keyword:

elem = (typeof elem === 'undefined') ? defaultElem : elem;

Listing information about all database files in SQL Server

If you want get location of Database you can check Get All DBs Location.
you can use sys.master_files for get location of db and sys.databse to get db name

SELECT
    db.name AS DBName,
    type_desc AS FileType,
    Physical_Name AS Location
FROM
    sys.master_files mf
INNER JOIN 
    sys.databases db ON db.database_id = mf.database_id

Using the "With Clause" SQL Server 2008

There are two types of WITH clauses:

Here is the FizzBuzz in SQL form, using a WITH common table expression (CTE).

;WITH mil AS (
 SELECT TOP 1000000 ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY c.column_id ) [n]
 FROM master.sys.all_columns as c
 CROSS JOIN master.sys.all_columns as c2
)                
 SELECT CASE WHEN n  % 3 = 0 THEN
             CASE WHEN n  % 5 = 0 THEN 'FizzBuzz' ELSE 'Fizz' END
        WHEN n % 5 = 0 THEN 'Buzz'
        ELSE CAST(n AS char(6))
     END + CHAR(13)
 FROM mil

Here is a select statement also using a WITH clause

SELECT * FROM orders WITH (NOLOCK) where order_id = 123

Find the similarity metric between two strings

Package distance includes Levenshtein distance:

import distance
distance.levenshtein("lenvestein", "levenshtein")
# 3

Remove category & tag base from WordPress url - without a plugin

The non-category plugin did not work for me.

For Multisite WordPress the following works:

  1. Go to network admin sites;
  2. Open site under \;
  3. Go to settings;
  4. Under permalinks structure type /%category%/%postname%/. This will display your url as www.domainname.com/categoryname/postname;
  5. Now go to your site dashboard (not network dashboard);
  6. Open settings;
  7. Open permalink. Do not save (the permalink will show uneditable field as yourdoamainname/blog/. Ignore it. If you save now the work you did in step 4 will be overwritten. This step of opening permalink page but not saving in needed to update the database.

enum to string in modern C++11 / C++14 / C++17 and future C++20

I don't know if you're going to like this or not, I'm not pretty happy with this solution but it is a C++14 friendly approach because it is using template variables and abusing template specialization:

enum class MyEnum : std::uint_fast8_t {
   AAA,
   BBB,
   CCC,
};

template<MyEnum> const char MyEnumName[] = "Invalid MyEnum value";
template<> const char MyEnumName<MyEnum::AAA>[] = "AAA";
template<> const char MyEnumName<MyEnum::BBB>[] = "BBB";
template<> const char MyEnumName<MyEnum::CCC>[] = "CCC";

int main()
{
    // Prints "AAA"
    std::cout << MyEnumName<MyEnum::AAA> << '\n';
    // Prints "Invalid MyEnum value"
    std::cout << MyEnumName<static_cast<MyEnum>(0x12345678)> << '\n';
    // Well... in fact it prints "Invalid MyEnum value" for any value
    // different of MyEnum::AAA, MyEnum::BBB or MyEnum::CCC.

    return 0;
}

The worst about this approach is that is a pain to maintain, but it is also a pain to maintain some of other similar aproaches, aren't they?

Good points about this aproach:

  • Using variable tempates (C++14 feature)
  • With template specialization we can "detect" when an invalid value is used (but I'm not sure if this could be useful at all).
  • It looks neat.
  • The name lookup is done at compile time.

Live example

Edit

Misterious user673679 you're right; the C++14 variable template approach doesn't handles the runtime case, it was my fault to forget it :(

But we can still use some modern C++ features and variable template plus variadic template trickery to achieve a runtime translation from enum value to string... it is as bothersome as the others but still worth to mention.

Let's start using a template alias to shorten the access to a enum-to-string map:

// enum_map contains pairs of enum value and value string for each enum
// this shortcut allows us to use enum_map<whatever>.
template <typename ENUM>
using enum_map = std::map<ENUM, const std::string>;

// This variable template will create a map for each enum type which is
// instantiated with.
template <typename ENUM>
enum_map<ENUM> enum_values{};

Then, the variadic template trickery:

template <typename ENUM>
void initialize() {}

template <typename ENUM, typename ... args>
void initialize(const ENUM value, const char *name, args ... tail)
{
    enum_values<ENUM>.emplace(value, name);
    initialize<ENUM>(tail ...);
}

The "best trick" here is the use of variable template for the map which contains the values and names of each enum entry; this map will be the same in each translation unit and have the same name everywhere so is pretty straightforward and neat, if we call the initialize function like this:

initialize
(
    MyEnum::AAA, "AAA",
    MyEnum::BBB, "BBB",
    MyEnum::CCC, "CCC"
);

We are asigning names to each MyEnum entry and can be used in runtime:

std::cout << enum_values<MyEnum>[MyEnum::AAA] << '\n';

But can be improved with SFINAE and overloading << operator:

template<typename ENUM, class = typename std::enable_if<std::is_enum<ENUM>::value>::type>
std::ostream &operator <<(std::ostream &o, const ENUM value)
{
    static const std::string Unknown{std::string{typeid(ENUM).name()} + " unknown value"};
    auto found = enum_values<ENUM>.find(value);

    return o << (found == enum_values<ENUM>.end() ? Unknown : found->second);
}

With the correct operator << now we can use the enum this way:

std::cout << MyEnum::AAA << '\n';

This is also bothersome to maintain and can be improved, but hope you get the idea.

Live example

Animate the transition between fragments

You need to use the new android.animation framework (object animators) with FragmentTransaction.setCustomAnimations as well as FragmentTransaction.setTransition.

Here's an example on using setCustomAnimations from ApiDemos' FragmentHideShow.java:

ft.setCustomAnimations(android.R.animator.fade_in, android.R.animator.fade_out);

and here's the relevant animator XML from res/animator/fade_in.xml:

<objectAnimator xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:interpolator="@android:interpolator/accelerate_quad"
    android:valueFrom="0"
    android:valueTo="1"
    android:propertyName="alpha"
    android:duration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime" />

Note that you can combine multiple animators using <set>, just as you could with the older animation framework.


EDIT: Since folks are asking about slide-in/slide-out, I'll comment on that here.

Slide-in and slide-out

You can of course animate the translationX, translationY, x, and y properties, but generally slides involve animating content to and from off-screen. As far as I know there aren't any transition properties that use relative values. However, this doesn't prevent you from writing them yourself. Remember that property animations simply require getter and setter methods on the objects you're animating (in this case views), so you can just create your own getXFraction and setXFraction methods on your view subclass, like this:

public class MyFrameLayout extends FrameLayout {
    ...
    public float getXFraction() {
        return getX() / getWidth(); // TODO: guard divide-by-zero
    }

    public void setXFraction(float xFraction) {
        // TODO: cache width
        final int width = getWidth();
        setX((width > 0) ? (xFraction * width) : -9999);
    }
    ...
}

Now you can animate the 'xFraction' property, like this:

res/animator/slide_in.xml:

<objectAnimator xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:interpolator="@android:anim/linear_interpolator"
    android:valueFrom="-1.0"
    android:valueTo="0"
    android:propertyName="xFraction"
    android:duration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime" />

Note that if the object you're animating in isn't the same width as its parent, things won't look quite right, so you may need to tweak your property implementation to suit your use case.

Creating random colour in Java?

Here is a method for getting a random color:

private static Random sRandom;

public static synchronized int randomColor() {
    if (sRandom == null) {
        sRandom = new Random();
    }
    return 0xff000000 + 256 * 256 * sRandom.nextInt(256) + 256 * sRandom.nextInt(256)
            + sRandom.nextInt(256);
}

Benefits:

  • Get the integer representation which can be used with java.awt.Color or android.graphics.Color
  • Keep a static reference to Random.

Error:Unable to locate adb within SDK in Android Studio

For anyone who is still running into this issue. I had a similar problem where I could see my device from adb on the command line using adb devices but Android Studio would not recognize when I had a device attached and would throw either:

  • Unable to locate adb within SDK or
  • Unable to obtain result of 'adb version'

    I had tried start/stops of adb, uninstalls, of platform-tools, and more. What I found was that inside my C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Android folder I had multiple sdk folders. I performed the following:

    1. Unistall Platform-Tools using Android Studio's SDK Manager
    2. Deleted all platform-tools\ directories within each C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Android\sdk* directory
    3. Reinstalled Platform-Tools using Android Studio's SDK Manager

Hope this helps someone someday with their issue.

PIL image to array (numpy array to array) - Python

I highly recommend you use the tobytes function of the Image object. After some timing checks this is much more efficient.

def jpg_image_to_array(image_path):
  """
  Loads JPEG image into 3D Numpy array of shape 
  (width, height, channels)
  """
  with Image.open(image_path) as image:         
    im_arr = np.fromstring(image.tobytes(), dtype=np.uint8)
    im_arr = im_arr.reshape((image.size[1], image.size[0], 3))                                   
  return im_arr

The timings I ran on my laptop show

In [76]: %timeit np.fromstring(im.tobytes(), dtype=np.uint8)
1000 loops, best of 3: 230 µs per loop

In [77]: %timeit np.array(im.getdata(), dtype=np.uint8)
10 loops, best of 3: 114 ms per loop

```

Check if EditText is empty.

use TextUtils.isEmpty("Text here"); for single line code

MySQL Fire Trigger for both Insert and Update

unfortunately we can't use in MySQL after INSERT or UPDATE description, like in Oracle

How does tuple comparison work in Python?

Tuples are compared position by position: the first item of the first tuple is compared to the first item of the second tuple; if they are not equal (i.e. the first is greater or smaller than the second) then that's the result of the comparison, else the second item is considered, then the third and so on.

See Common Sequence Operations:

Sequences of the same type also support comparisons. In particular, tuples and lists are compared lexicographically by comparing corresponding elements. This means that to compare equal, every element must compare equal and the two sequences must be of the same type and have the same length.

Also Value Comparisons for further details:

Lexicographical comparison between built-in collections works as follows:

  • For two collections to compare equal, they must be of the same type, have the same length, and each pair of corresponding elements must compare equal (for example, [1,2] == (1,2) is false because the type is not the same).
  • Collections that support order comparison are ordered the same as their first unequal elements (for example, [1,2,x] <= [1,2,y] has the same value as x <= y). If a corresponding element does not exist, the shorter collection is ordered first (for example, [1,2] < [1,2,3] is true).

If not equal, the sequences are ordered the same as their first differing elements. For example, cmp([1,2,x], [1,2,y]) returns the same as cmp(x,y). If the corresponding element does not exist, the shorter sequence is considered smaller (for example, [1,2] < [1,2,3] returns True).

Note 1: < and > do not mean "smaller than" and "greater than" but "is before" and "is after": so (0, 1) "is before" (1, 0).

Note 2: tuples must not be considered as vectors in a n-dimensional space, compared according to their length.

Note 3: referring to question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36911617/python-2-tuple-comparison: do not think that a tuple is "greater" than another only if any element of the first is greater than the corresponding one in the second.

Add day(s) to a Date object

Note : Use it if calculating / adding days from current date.

Be aware: this answer has issues (see comments)

var myDate = new Date();
myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate() + AddDaysHere);

It should be like

var newDate = new Date(date.setTime( date.getTime() + days * 86400000 ));

XmlSerializer: remove unnecessary xsi and xsd namespaces

Since Dave asked for me to repeat my answer to Omitting all xsi and xsd namespaces when serializing an object in .NET, I have updated this post and repeated my answer here from the afore-mentioned link. The example used in this answer is the same example used for the other question. What follows is copied, verbatim.


After reading Microsoft's documentation and several solutions online, I have discovered the solution to this problem. It works with both the built-in XmlSerializer and custom XML serialization via IXmlSerialiazble.

To whit, I'll use the same MyTypeWithNamespaces XML sample that's been used in the answers to this question so far.

[XmlRoot("MyTypeWithNamespaces", Namespace="urn:Abracadabra", IsNullable=false)]
public class MyTypeWithNamespaces
{
    // As noted below, per Microsoft's documentation, if the class exposes a public
    // member of type XmlSerializerNamespaces decorated with the 
    // XmlNamespacesDeclarationAttribute, then the XmlSerializer will utilize those
    // namespaces during serialization.
    public MyTypeWithNamespaces( )
    {
        this._namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new XmlQualifiedName[] {
            // Don't do this!! Microsoft's documentation explicitly says it's not supported.
            // It doesn't throw any exceptions, but in my testing, it didn't always work.

            // new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, string.Empty),  // And don't do this:
            // new XmlQualifiedName("", "")

            // DO THIS:
            new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, "urn:Abracadabra") // Default Namespace
            // Add any other namespaces, with prefixes, here.
        });
    }

    // If you have other constructors, make sure to call the default constructor.
    public MyTypeWithNamespaces(string label, int epoch) : this( )
    {
        this._label = label;
        this._epoch = epoch;
    }

    // An element with a declared namespace different than the namespace
    // of the enclosing type.
    [XmlElement(Namespace="urn:Whoohoo")]
    public string Label
    {
        get { return this._label; }
        set { this._label = value; }
    }
    private string _label;

    // An element whose tag will be the same name as the property name.
    // Also, this element will inherit the namespace of the enclosing type.
    public int Epoch
    {
        get { return this._epoch; }
        set { this._epoch = value; }
    }
    private int _epoch;

    // Per Microsoft's documentation, you can add some public member that
    // returns a XmlSerializerNamespaces object. They use a public field,
    // but that's sloppy. So I'll use a private backed-field with a public
    // getter property. Also, per the documentation, for this to work with
    // the XmlSerializer, decorate it with the XmlNamespaceDeclarations
    // attribute.
    [XmlNamespaceDeclarations]
    public XmlSerializerNamespaces Namespaces
    {
        get { return this._namespaces; }
    }
    private XmlSerializerNamespaces _namespaces;
}

That's all to this class. Now, some objected to having an XmlSerializerNamespaces object somewhere within their classes; but as you can see, I neatly tucked it away in the default constructor and exposed a public property to return the namespaces.

Now, when it comes time to serialize the class, you would use the following code:

MyTypeWithNamespaces myType = new MyTypeWithNamespaces("myLabel", 42);

/******
   OK, I just figured I could do this to make the code shorter, so I commented out the
   below and replaced it with what follows:

// You have to use this constructor in order for the root element to have the right namespaces.
// If you need to do custom serialization of inner objects, you can use a shortened constructor.
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyTypeWithNamespaces), new XmlAttributeOverrides(),
    new Type[]{}, new XmlRootAttribute("MyTypeWithNamespaces"), "urn:Abracadabra");

******/
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyTypeWithNamespaces),
    new XmlRootAttribute("MyTypeWithNamespaces") { Namespace="urn:Abracadabra" });

// I'll use a MemoryStream as my backing store.
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

// This is extra! If you want to change the settings for the XmlSerializer, you have to create
// a separate XmlWriterSettings object and use the XmlTextWriter.Create(...) factory method.
// So, in this case, I want to omit the XML declaration.
XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings();
xws.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
xws.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; // This is probably the default
// You could use the XmlWriterSetting to set indenting and new line options, but the
// XmlTextWriter class has a much easier method to accomplish that.

// The factory method returns a XmlWriter, not a XmlTextWriter, so cast it.
XmlTextWriter xtw = (XmlTextWriter)XmlTextWriter.Create(ms, xws);
// Then we can set our indenting options (this is, of course, optional).
xtw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;

// Now serialize our object.
xs.Serialize(xtw, myType, myType.Namespaces);

Once you have done this, you should get the following output:

<MyTypeWithNamespaces>
    <Label xmlns="urn:Whoohoo">myLabel</Label>
    <Epoch>42</Epoch>
</MyTypeWithNamespaces>

I have successfully used this method in a recent project with a deep hierachy of classes that are serialized to XML for web service calls. Microsoft's documentation is not very clear about what to do with the publicly accesible XmlSerializerNamespaces member once you've created it, and so many think it's useless. But by following their documentation and using it in the manner shown above, you can customize how the XmlSerializer generates XML for your classes without resorting to unsupported behavior or "rolling your own" serialization by implementing IXmlSerializable.

It is my hope that this answer will put to rest, once and for all, how to get rid of the standard xsi and xsd namespaces generated by the XmlSerializer.

UPDATE: I just want to make sure I answered the OP's question about removing all namespaces. My code above will work for this; let me show you how. Now, in the example above, you really can't get rid of all namespaces (because there are two namespaces in use). Somewhere in your XML document, you're going to need to have something like xmlns="urn:Abracadabra" xmlns:w="urn:Whoohoo. If the class in the example is part of a larger document, then somewhere above a namespace must be declared for either one of (or both) Abracadbra and Whoohoo. If not, then the element in one or both of the namespaces must be decorated with a prefix of some sort (you can't have two default namespaces, right?). So, for this example, Abracadabra is the default namespace. I could inside my MyTypeWithNamespaces class add a namespace prefix for the Whoohoo namespace like so:

public MyTypeWithNamespaces
{
    this._namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new XmlQualifiedName[] {
        new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, "urn:Abracadabra"), // Default Namespace
        new XmlQualifiedName("w", "urn:Whoohoo")
    });
}

Now, in my class definition, I indicated that the <Label/> element is in the namespace "urn:Whoohoo", so I don't need to do anything further. When I now serialize the class using my above serialization code unchanged, this is the output:

<MyTypeWithNamespaces xmlns:w="urn:Whoohoo">
    <w:Label>myLabel</w:Label>
    <Epoch>42</Epoch>
</MyTypeWithNamespaces>

Because <Label> is in a different namespace from the rest of the document, it must, in someway, be "decorated" with a namespace. Notice that there are still no xsi and xsd namespaces.


This ends my answer to the other question. But I wanted to make sure I answered the OP's question about using no namespaces, as I feel I didn't really address it yet. Assume that <Label> is part of the same namespace as the rest of the document, in this case urn:Abracadabra:

<MyTypeWithNamespaces>
    <Label>myLabel<Label>
    <Epoch>42</Epoch>
</MyTypeWithNamespaces>

Your constructor would look as it would in my very first code example, along with the public property to retrieve the default namespace:

// As noted below, per Microsoft's documentation, if the class exposes a public
// member of type XmlSerializerNamespaces decorated with the 
// XmlNamespacesDeclarationAttribute, then the XmlSerializer will utilize those
// namespaces during serialization.
public MyTypeWithNamespaces( )
{
    this._namespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new XmlQualifiedName[] {
        new XmlQualifiedName(string.Empty, "urn:Abracadabra") // Default Namespace
    });
}

[XmlNamespaceDeclarations]
public XmlSerializerNamespaces Namespaces
{
    get { return this._namespaces; }
}
private XmlSerializerNamespaces _namespaces;

Then, later, in your code that uses the MyTypeWithNamespaces object to serialize it, you would call it as I did above:

MyTypeWithNamespaces myType = new MyTypeWithNamespaces("myLabel", 42);

XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyTypeWithNamespaces),
    new XmlRootAttribute("MyTypeWithNamespaces") { Namespace="urn:Abracadabra" });

...

// Above, you'd setup your XmlTextWriter.

// Now serialize our object.
xs.Serialize(xtw, myType, myType.Namespaces);

And the XmlSerializer would spit back out the same XML as shown immediately above with no additional namespaces in the output:

<MyTypeWithNamespaces>
    <Label>myLabel<Label>
    <Epoch>42</Epoch>
</MyTypeWithNamespaces>

Bootstrap select dropdown list placeholder

Here's another way to do it

<select name="GROUPINGS[xxxxxx]" style="width: 60%;" required>
    <option value="">Choose Platform</option>
<option value="iOS">iOS</option>
    <option value="Android">Android</option>
    <option value="Windows">Windows</option>
</select>

"Choose Platform" becomes the placeholder and the 'required' property ensures that the user has to select one of the options.

Very useful, when you don't want to user field names or Labels.

Exact difference between CharSequence and String in java

CharSequence is a contract (interface), and String is an implementation of this contract.

public final class String extends Object 
    implements Serializable, Comparable<String>, CharSequence

The documentation for CharSequence is:

A CharSequence is a readable sequence of char values. This interface provides uniform, read-only access to many different kinds of char sequences. A char value represents a character in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) or a surrogate. Refer to Unicode Character Representation for details.

What is the most efficient way to concatenate N arrays?

Now we can combine multiple arrays using ES6 Spread. Instead of using concat() to concatenate arrays, try using the spread syntax to combine multiple arrays into one flattened array. eg:

var a = [1,2];
var b = [3,4];
var c = [5,6,7];
var d = [...a, ...b, ...c];
// resulting array will be like d = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

Using DataContractSerializer to serialize, but can't deserialize back

Here is how I've always done it:

    public static string Serialize(object obj) {
        using(MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
        using(StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(memoryStream)) {
            DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(obj.GetType());
            serializer.WriteObject(memoryStream, obj);
            memoryStream.Position = 0;
            return reader.ReadToEnd();
        }
    }

    public static object Deserialize(string xml, Type toType) {
        using(Stream stream = new MemoryStream()) {
            byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);
            stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
            stream.Position = 0;
            DataContractSerializer deserializer = new DataContractSerializer(toType);
            return deserializer.ReadObject(stream);
        }
    }

Dynamically adding HTML form field using jQuery

something like so might work:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
    var $input = $("<input name='myField' type='text'>");
    $('#section2').append($input);
});
</script>

<form>
    <div id="section1"><!-- some controls--></div>
    <div id="section2"><!-- for dynamic controls--></div>
</form>

nodejs get file name from absolute path?

Use the basename method of the path module:

path.basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html')
// returns
'quux.html'

Here is the documentation the above example is taken from.

What are differences between AssemblyVersion, AssemblyFileVersion and AssemblyInformationalVersion?

AssemblyInformationalVersion and AssemblyFileVersion are displayed when you view the "Version" information on a file through Windows Explorer by viewing the file properties. These attributes actually get compiled in to a VERSION_INFO resource that is created by the compiler.

AssemblyInformationalVersion is the "Product version" value. AssemblyFileVersion is the "File version" value.

The AssemblyVersion is specific to .NET assemblies and is used by the .NET assembly loader to know which version of an assembly to load/bind at runtime.

Out of these, the only one that is absolutely required by .NET is the AssemblyVersion attribute. Unfortunately it can also cause the most problems when it changes indiscriminately, especially if you are strong naming your assemblies.

Collection that allows only unique items in .NET?

HashSet<T> is what you're looking for. From MSDN (emphasis added):

The HashSet<T> class provides high-performance set operations. A set is a collection that contains no duplicate elements, and whose elements are in no particular order.

Note that the HashSet<T>.Add(T item) method returns a bool -- true if the item was added to the collection; false if the item was already present.

JWT refresh token flow

Based in this implementation with Node.js of JWT with refresh token:

1) In this case they use a uid and it's not a JWT. When they refresh the token they send the refresh token and the user. If you implement it as a JWT, you don't need to send the user, because it would inside the JWT.

2) They implement this in a separated document (table). It has sense to me because a user can be logged in in different client applications and it could have a refresh token by app. If the user lose a device with one app installed, the refresh token of that device could be invalidated without affecting the other logged in devices.

3) In this implementation it response to the log in method with both, access token and refresh token. It seams correct to me.

How can I get device ID for Admob

app: build.gradle

dependencies {
...
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:10.0.1'
...
}

Your Activity:

 AdRequest.Builder builder = new AdRequest.Builder();
        if(BuildConfig.DEBUG){

            String android_id = Settings.Secure.getString(context.getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID);
            String deviceId = io.fabric.sdk.android.services.common.CommonUtils.md5(android_id).toUpperCase();
            builder.addTestDevice(deviceId);
        }
        AdRequest adRequest = builder.build();
    adView.loadAd(adRequest);

Jquery: Find Text and replace

More specific:

$("#id1 p:contains('dog')").text($("#id1 p:contains('dog')").text().replace('dog', 'doll'));

How to delete columns in numpy.array

In your situation, you can extract the desired data with:

a[:, -z]

"-z" is the logical negation of the boolean array "z". This is the same as:

a[:, logical_not(z)]

Convert pyQt UI to python

You don't have to install PyQt4 with all its side features, you just need the PyQt4 package itself. Inside the package you could use the module pyuic.py ("C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic") to convert your Ui file.

C:\test>python C:\Python27x64\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\pyuic.py -help

update python3: use pyuic5 -help # add filepath if needed. pyuic version = 4 or 5.

You will get all options listed:

Usage: pyuic4 [options] <ui-file>

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p, --preview         show a preview of the UI instead of generating code
  -o FILE, --output=FILE
                        write generated code to FILE instead of stdout
  -x, --execute         generate extra code to test and display the class
  -d, --debug           show debug output
  -i N, --indent=N      set indent width to N spaces, tab if N is 0 [default:
                        4]
  -w, --pyqt3-wrapper   generate a PyQt v3 style wrapper

  Code generation options:
    --from-imports      generate imports relative to '.'
    --resource-suffix=SUFFIX
                        append SUFFIX to the basename of resource files
                        [default: _rc]

So your command will look like this:

C:\test>python C:\Python27x64\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\uic\pyuic.py test_dialog.ui -o test.py -x

You could also use full file paths to your file to convert it.

Why do you want to convert it anyway? I prefer creating widgets in the designer and implement them with via the *.ui file. That makes it much more comfortable to edit it later. You could also write your own widget plugins and load them into the Qt Designer with full access. Having your ui hard coded doesn't makes it very flexible.

I reuse a lot of my ui's not only in Maya, also for Max, Nuke, etc.. If you have to change something software specific, you should try to inherit the class (with the parented ui file) from a more global point of view and patch or override the methods you have to adjust. That saves a lot of work time. Let me know if you have more questions about it.

"could not find stored procedure"

You may need to check who the actual owner of the stored procedure is. If it is a specific different user then that could be why you can't access it.

SVN how to resolve new tree conflicts when file is added on two branches

I just managed to wedge myself pretty thoroughly trying to follow user619330's advice above. The situation was: (1): I had added some files while working on my initial branch, branch1; (2) I created a new branch, branch2 for further development, branching it off from the trunk and then merging in my changes from branch1 (3) A co-worker had copied my mods from branch1 to his own branch, added further mods, and then merged back to the trunk; (4) I now wanted to merge the latest changes from trunk into my current working branch, branch2. This is with svn 1.6.17.

The merge had tree conflicts with the new files, and I wanted the new version from the trunk where they differed, so from a clean copy of branch2, I did an svn delete of the conflicting files, committed these branch2 changes (thus creating a temporary version of branch2 without the files in question), and then did my merge from the trunk. I did this because I wanted the history to match the trunk version so that I wouldn't have more problems later when trying to merge back to trunk. Merge went fine, I got the trunk version of the files, svn st shows all ok, and then I hit more tree conflicts while trying to commit the changes, between the delete I had done earlier and the add from the merge. Did an svn resolve of the conflicts in favor of my working copy (which now had the trunk version of the files), and got it to commit. All should be good, right?

Well, no. An update of another copy of branch2 resulted in the old version of the files (pre-trunk merge). So now I have two different working copies of branch2, supposedly updated to the same version, with two different versions of the files, and both insisting that they are fully up to date! Checking out a clean copy of branch2 resulted in the old (pre-trunk) version of the files. I manually update these to the trunk version and commit the changes, go back to my first working copy (from which I had submitted the trunk changes originally), try to update it, and now get a checksum error on the files in question. Blow the directory in question away, get a new version via update, and finally I have what should be a good version of branch2 with the trunk changes. I hope. Caveat developer.

How to use AND in IF Statement

Brief syntax lesson

Cells(Row, Column) identifies a cell. Row must be an integer between 1 and the maximum for version of Excel you are using. Column must be a identifier (for example: "A", "IV", "XFD") or a number (for example: 1, 256, 16384)

.Cells(Row, Column) identifies a cell within a sheet identified in a earlier With statement:

With ActiveSheet
  :
  .Cells(Row,Column)
  :
End With

If you omit the dot, Cells(Row,Column) is within the active worksheet. So wsh = ActiveWorkbook wsh.Range is not strictly necessary. However, I always use a With statement so I do not wonder which sheet I meant when I return to my code in six months time. So, I would write:

With ActiveSheet
  :
  .Range.  
  :
End With

Actually, I would not write the above unless I really did want the code to work on the active sheet. What if the user has the wrong sheet active when they started the macro. I would write:

With Sheets("xxxx")
  :
  .Range.  
  :
End With

because my code only works on sheet xxxx.

Cells(Row,Column) identifies a cell. Cells(Row,Column).xxxx identifies a property of the cell. Value is a property. Value is the default property so you can usually omit it and the compiler will know what you mean. But in certain situations the compiler can be confused so the advice to include the .Value is good.

Cells(Row,Column) like "*Miami*" will give True if the cell is "Miami", "South Miami", "Miami, North" or anything similar.

Cells(Row,Column).Value = "Miami" will give True if the cell is exactly equal to "Miami". "MIAMI" for example will give False. If you want to accept MIAMI, use the lower case function:

Lcase(Cells(Row,Column).Value) = "miami"  

My suggestions

Your sample code keeps changing as you try different suggestions which I find confusing. You were using Cells(Row,Column) <> "Miami" when I started typing this.

Use

If Cells(i, "A").Value like "*Miami*" And Cells(i, "D").Value like "*Florida*" Then
  Cells(i, "C").Value = "BA"

if you want to accept, for example, "South Miami" and "Miami, North".

Use

If Cells(i, "A").Value = "Miami" And Cells(i, "D").Value like "Florida" Then
  Cells(i, "C").Value = "BA"

if you want to accept, exactly, "Miami" and "Florida".

Use

If Lcase(Cells(i, "A").Value) = "miami" And _
   Lcase(Cells(i, "D").Value) = "florida" Then
  Cells(i, "C").Value = "BA"

if you don't care about case.

One line if in VB .NET

If (X1= 1) Then : Val1= "Yes" : Else : Val1= "Not" : End If

"Eliminate render-blocking CSS in above-the-fold content"

A related question has been asked before: What is “above-the-fold content” in Google Pagespeed?

Firstly you have to notice that this is all about 'mobile pages'.
So when I interpreted your question and screenshot correctly, then this is not for your site!

On the contrary - doing some of the things advised by Google in their guidelines will things make worse than better for 'normal' websites.
And not everything that comes from Google is the "holy grail" just because it comes from Google. And they themselves are not a good role model if you have a look at their HTML markup.

The best advice I could give you is:

  • Set width and height on replaced elements in your CSS, so that the browser can layout the elements and doesn't have to wait for the replaced content!

Additionally why do you use different CSS files, rather than just one?
The additional request is worse than the small amount of data volume. And after the first request the CSS file is cached anyway.

The things one should always take care of are:

  • reduce the number of requests as much as possible
  • keep your overall page weight as low as possible

And don't puzzle your brain about how to get 100% of Google's PageSpeed Insights tool ...! ;-)

Addition 1: Here is the page on which Google shows us, what they recommend for Optimize CSS Delivery.

As said before, I don't think that this is neither realistic nor that it makes sense for a "normal" website! Because mainly when you have a responsive web design it is most certain that you use media queries and other layout styles. So if you are not gonna load your CSS first and in a blocking manner you'll get a FOUT (Flash Of Unstyled Text). I really do not believe that this is "better" than at least some more milliseconds to render the page!

Imho Google is starting a new "hype" (when I have a look at all the question about it here on Stackoverflow) ...!

Maven plugin in Eclipse - Settings.xml file is missing

The settings file is never created automatically, you must create it yourself, whether you use embedded or "real" maven.

Create it at the following location <your home folder>/.m2/settings.xml e.g. C:\Users\YourUserName\.m2\settings.xml on Windows or /home/YourUserName/.m2/settings.xml on Linux

Here's an empty skeleton you can use:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
  <localRepository/>
  <interactiveMode/>
  <usePluginRegistry/>
  <offline/>
  <pluginGroups/>
  <servers/>
  <mirrors/>
  <proxies/>
  <profiles/>
  <activeProfiles/>
</settings>

If you use Eclipse to edit it, it will give you auto-completion when editing it.

And here's the Maven settings.xml Reference page

How to load a text file into a Hive table stored as sequence files

You can load the text file into a textfile Hive table and then insert the data from this table into your sequencefile.

Start with a tab delimited file:

% cat /tmp/input.txt
a       b
a2      b2

create a sequence file

hive> create table test_sq(k string, v string) stored as sequencefile;

try to load; as expected, this will fail:

hive> load data local inpath '/tmp/input.txt' into table test_sq;

But with this table:

hive> create table test_t(k string, v string) row format delimited fields terminated by '\t' stored as textfile;

The load works just fine:

hive> load data local inpath '/tmp/input.txt' into table test_t;
OK
hive> select * from test_t;
OK
a       b
a2      b2

Now load into the sequence table from the text table:

insert into table test_sq select * from test_t;

Can also do load/insert with overwrite to replace all.

How to obfuscate Python code effectively?

I'll write my answer in a didactic manner...

First type into your Python interpreter:

import this

then, go and take a look to the file this.py in your Lib directory within your Python distribution and try to understand what it does.

After that, take a look to the eval function in the documentation:

help(eval)

Now you should have found a funny way to protect your code. But beware, because that only works for people that are less intelligent than you! (and I'm not trying to be offensive, anyone smart enough to understand what you did could reverse it).

Is there an XSLT name-of element?

For those interested, there is no:

<xsl:tag-of select="."/>

However you can re-create the tag/element by going:

<xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
  <xsl:value-of select="substring(.,1,3)"/>
</xsl:element>

This is useful in an xslt template that for example handles formatting data values for lots of different elements. When you don't know the name of the element being worked on and you can still output the same element, and modify the value if need be.

Retrieve filename from file descriptor in C

You can use readlink on /proc/self/fd/NNN where NNN is the file descriptor. This will give you the name of the file as it was when it was opened — however, if the file was moved or deleted since then, it may no longer be accurate (although Linux can track renames in some cases). To verify, stat the filename given and fstat the fd you have, and make sure st_dev and st_ino are the same.

Of course, not all file descriptors refer to files, and for those you'll see some odd text strings, such as pipe:[1538488]. Since all of the real filenames will be absolute paths, you can determine which these are easily enough. Further, as others have noted, files can have multiple hardlinks pointing to them - this will only report the one it was opened with. If you want to find all names for a given file, you'll just have to traverse the entire filesystem.

PHP function to generate v4 UUID

Instead of breaking it down into individual fields, it's easier to generate a random block of data and change the individual byte positions. You should also use a better random number generator than mt_rand().

According to RFC 4122 - Section 4.4, you need to change these fields:

  1. time_hi_and_version (bits 4-7 of 7th octet),
  2. clock_seq_hi_and_reserved (bit 6 & 7 of 9th octet)

All of the other 122 bits should be sufficiently random.

The following approach generates 128 bits of random data using openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(), makes the permutations on the octets and then uses bin2hex() and vsprintf() to do the final formatting.

function guidv4($data)
{
    assert(strlen($data) == 16);

    $data[6] = chr(ord($data[6]) & 0x0f | 0x40); // set version to 0100
    $data[8] = chr(ord($data[8]) & 0x3f | 0x80); // set bits 6-7 to 10

    return vsprintf('%s%s-%s-%s-%s-%s%s%s', str_split(bin2hex($data), 4));
}

echo guidv4(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16));

With PHP 7, generating random byte sequences is even simpler using random_bytes():

function guidv4($data = null)
{
    $data = $data ?? random_bytes(16);
    // ...
}

close vs shutdown socket?

linux: shutdown() causes listener thread select() to awake and produce error. shutdown(); close(); will lead to endless wait.

winsock: vice versa - shutdown() has no effect, while close() is successfully catched.

How to log out user from web site using BASIC authentication?

This JavaScript must be working for all latest version browsers:

//Detect Browser
var isOpera = !!window.opera || navigator.userAgent.indexOf(' OPR/') >= 0;
    // Opera 8.0+ (UA detection to detect Blink/v8-powered Opera)
var isFirefox = typeof InstallTrigger !== 'undefined';   // Firefox 1.0+
var isSafari = Object.prototype.toString.call(window.HTMLElement).indexOf('Constructor') > 0;
    // At least Safari 3+: "[object HTMLElementConstructor]"
var isChrome = !!window.chrome && !isOpera;              // Chrome 1+
var isIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false || !!document.documentMode; // At least IE6
var Host = window.location.host;


//Clear Basic Realm Authentication
if(isIE){
//IE
    document.execCommand("ClearAuthenticationCache");
    window.location = '/';
}
else if(isSafari)
{//Safari. but this works mostly on all browser except chrome
    (function(safeLocation){
        var outcome, u, m = "You should be logged out now.";
        // IE has a simple solution for it - API:
        try { outcome = document.execCommand("ClearAuthenticationCache") }catch(e){}
        // Other browsers need a larger solution - AJAX call with special user name - 'logout'.
        if (!outcome) {
            // Let's create an xmlhttp object
            outcome = (function(x){
                if (x) {
                    // the reason we use "random" value for password is 
                    // that browsers cache requests. changing
                    // password effectively behaves like cache-busing.
                    x.open("HEAD", safeLocation || location.href, true, "logout", (new Date()).getTime().toString())
                    x.send("");
                    // x.abort()
                    return 1 // this is **speculative** "We are done." 
                } else {
                    return
                }
            })(window.XMLHttpRequest ? new window.XMLHttpRequest() : ( window.ActiveXObject ? new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP") : u )) 
        }
        if (!outcome) {
            m = "Your browser is too old or too weird to support log out functionality. Close all windows and restart the browser."
        }
        alert(m);
        window.location = '/';
        // return !!outcome
    })(/*if present URI does not return 200 OK for GET, set some other 200 OK location here*/)
}
else{
//Firefox,Chrome
    window.location = 'http://log:out@'+Host+'/';
}

How to read a text file in project's root directory?

You can use the following to get the root directory of a website project:

String FilePath;
FilePath = Server.MapPath("/MyWebSite");

Or you can get the base directory like so:

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

Error: Cannot invoke an expression whose type lacks a call signature

Let's break this down:

  1. The error says

    Cannot invoke an expression whose type lacks a call signature.

  2. The code:

The problem is in this line public toggleBody: string; &

it's relation to these lines:

...
return this.toggleBody(true);
...
return this.toggleBody(false);
  1. The result:

Your saying toggleBody is a string but then your treating it like something that has a call signature (i.e. the structure of something that can be called: lambdas, proc, functions, methods, etc. In JS just function tho.). You need to change the declaration to be public toggleBody: (arg: boolean) => boolean;.

Extra Details:

"invoke" means your calling or applying a function.

"an expression" in Javascript is basically something that produces a value, so this.toggleBody() counts as an expression.

"type" is declared on this line public toggleBody: string

"lacks a call signature" this is because your trying to call something this.toggleBody() that doesn't have signature(i.e. the structure of something that can be called: lambdas, proc, functions, methods, etc.) that can be called. You said this.toggleBody is something that acts like a string.

In other words the error is saying

Cannot call an expression (this.toggleBody) because it's type (:string) lacks a call signature (bc it has a string signature.)

How can I be notified when an element is added to the page?

ETA 24 Apr 17 I wanted to simplify this a bit with some async/await magic, as it makes it a lot more succinct:

Using the same promisified-observable:

const startObservable = (domNode) => {
  var targetNode = domNode;

  var observerConfig = {
    attributes: true,
    childList: true,
    characterData: true
  };

  return new Promise((resolve) => {
      var observer = new MutationObserver(function (mutations) {
         // For the sake of...observation...let's output the mutation to console to see how this all works
         mutations.forEach(function (mutation) {
             console.log(mutation.type);
         });
         resolve(mutations)
     });
     observer.observe(targetNode, observerConfig);
   })
} 

Your calling function can be as simple as:

const waitForMutation = async () => {
    const button = document.querySelector('.some-button')
    if (button !== null) button.click()
    try {
      const results = await startObservable(someDomNode)
      return results
    } catch (err) { 
      console.error(err)
    }
}

If you wanted to add a timeout, you could use a simple Promise.race pattern as demonstrated here:

const waitForMutation = async (timeout = 5000 /*in ms*/) => {
    const button = document.querySelector('.some-button')
    if (button !== null) button.click()
    try {

      const results = await Promise.race([
          startObservable(someDomNode),
          // this will throw after the timeout, skipping 
          // the return & going to the catch block
          new Promise((resolve, reject) => setTimeout(
             reject, 
             timeout, 
             new Error('timed out waiting for mutation')
          )
       ])
      return results
    } catch (err) { 
      console.error(err)
    }
}

Original

You can do this without libraries, but you'd have to use some ES6 stuff, so be cognizant of compatibility issues (i.e., if your audience is mostly Amish, luddite or, worse, IE8 users)

First, we'll use the MutationObserver API to construct an observer object. We'll wrap this object in a promise, and resolve() when the callback is fired (h/t davidwalshblog)david walsh blog article on mutations:

const startObservable = (domNode) => {
    var targetNode = domNode;

    var observerConfig = {
        attributes: true,
        childList: true,
        characterData: true
    };

    return new Promise((resolve) => {
        var observer = new MutationObserver(function (mutations) {
            // For the sake of...observation...let's output the mutation to console to see how this all works
            mutations.forEach(function (mutation) {
                console.log(mutation.type);
            });
            resolve(mutations)
        });
        observer.observe(targetNode, observerConfig);
    })
} 

Then, we'll create a generator function. If you haven't used these yet, then you're missing out--but a brief synopsis is: it runs like a sync function, and when it finds a yield <Promise> expression, it waits in a non-blocking fashion for the promise to be fulfilled (Generators do more than this, but this is what we're interested in here).

// we'll declare our DOM node here, too
let targ = document.querySelector('#domNodeToWatch')

function* getMutation() {
    console.log("Starting")
    var mutations = yield startObservable(targ)
    console.log("done")
}

A tricky part about generators is they don't 'return' like a normal function. So, we'll use a helper function to be able to use the generator like a regular function. (again, h/t to dwb)

function runGenerator(g) {
    var it = g(), ret;

    // asynchronously iterate over generator
    (function iterate(val){
        ret = it.next( val );

        if (!ret.done) {
            // poor man's "is it a promise?" test
            if ("then" in ret.value) {
                // wait on the promise
                ret.value.then( iterate );
            }
            // immediate value: just send right back in
            else {
                // avoid synchronous recursion
                setTimeout( function(){
                    iterate( ret.value );
                }, 0 );
            }
        }
    })();
}

Then, at any point before the expected DOM mutation might happen, simply run runGenerator(getMutation).

Now you can integrate DOM mutations into a synchronous-style control flow. How bout that.

Lint: How to ignore "<key> is not translated in <language>" errors?

Another approach is to indicate the languages you intend to support and filter out the rest using the 'resConfigs' option with Gradle.

Check out this other answer for details

This is better, I think, because you don't have to completely ignore legitimate translation mistakes for languages you actually want to support

How can I submit a form using JavaScript?

If your form does not have any id, but it has a class name like theForm, you can use the below statement to submit it:

document.getElementsByClassName("theForm")[0].submit();

Compilation fails with "relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object"

Simply cleaning the project solved it for me.

My project is a C++ application (not a shared library). I randomly got this error after a lot of successful builds.

Get the time difference between two datetimes

Instead of

Math.floor(duration.asHours()) + moment.utc(duration.asMilliseconds()).format(":mm:ss")

It's better to do

moment.utc(total.asMilliseconds()).format("HH:mm:ss");

How to connect to a remote Git repository?

Now, if the repository is already existing on a remote machine, and you do not have anything locally, you do git clone instead.

The URL format is simple, it is PROTOCOL:/[user@]remoteMachineAddress/path/to/repository.git

For example, cloning a repository on a machine to which you have SSH access using the "dev" user, residing in /srv/repositories/awesomeproject.git and that machine has the ip 10.11.12.13 you do:

git clone ssh://[email protected]/srv/repositories/awesomeproject.git

Python Traceback (most recent call last)

You are using Python 2 for which the input() function tries to evaluate the expression entered. Because you enter a string, Python treats it as a name and tries to evaluate it. If there is no variable defined with that name you will get a NameError exception.

To fix the problem, in Python 2, you can use raw_input(). This returns the string entered by the user and does not attempt to evaluate it.

Note that if you were using Python 3, input() behaves the same as raw_input() does in Python 2.

How can I tell if a Java integer is null?

There is no exists for a SCALAR in Perl, anyway. The Perl way is

defined( $x ) 

and the equivalent Java is

anInteger != null

Those are the equivalents.

exists $hash{key}

Is like the Java

map.containsKey( "key" )

From your example, I think you're looking for

if ( startIn != null ) { ...

Passing arguments to JavaScript function from code-behind

include script manager

code behind function

ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this, this.GetType(), "HideConfirmBox", "javascript:HideAAConfirmBox(); ", true);

How can I get the file name from request.FILES?

file = request.FILES['filename']
file.name           # Gives name
file.content_type   # Gives Content type text/html etc
file.size           # Gives file's size in byte
file.read()         # Reads file

Set width of dropdown element in HTML select dropdown options

u can simply use "width" attribute of "style" to change the length of the dropdown box

<select class="my_dropdown" id="my_dropdown" style="width:APPROPRIATE WIDTH IN PIXLES">
<option value="1">LONG OPTION</option>
<option value="2">short</option>
</select>

e.g.

style="width:200px"

How to use onSavedInstanceState example please

Store information:

static final String PLAYER_SCORE = "playerScore";
static final String PLAYER_LEVEL = "playerLevel";

@Override
public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // Save the user's current game state
    savedInstanceState.putInt(PLAYER_SCORE, mCurrentScore);
    savedInstanceState.putInt(PLAYER_LEVEL, mCurrentLevel);

// Always call the superclass so it can save the view hierarchy state
super.onSaveInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
}

If you don't want to restore information in your onCreate-Method:

Here are the examples: Recreating an Activity

Instead of restoring the state during onCreate() you may choose to implement onRestoreInstanceState(), which the system calls after the onStart() method. The system calls onRestoreInstanceState() only if there is a saved state to restore, so you do not need to check whether the Bundle is null

public void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
// Always call the superclass so it can restore the view hierarchy
super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);

// Restore state members from saved instance
mCurrentScore = savedInstanceState.getInt(PLAYER_SCORE);
mCurrentLevel = savedInstanceState.getInt(PLAYER_LEVEL);
}

Bash script error [: !=: unary operator expected

Quotes!

if [ "$1" != -v ]; then

Otherwise, when $1 is completely empty, your test becomes:

[ != -v ]

instead of

[ "" != -v ]

...and != is not a unary operator (that is, one capable of taking only a single argument).

How do I access Configuration in any class in ASP.NET Core?

In 8-2017 Microsoft came out with System.Configuration for .NET CORE v4.4. Currently v4.5 and v4.6 preview.

For those of us, who works on transformation from .Net Framework to CORE, this is essential. It allows to keep and use current app.config files, which can be accessed from any assembly. It is probably even can be an alternative to appsettings.json, since Microsoft realized the need for it. It works same as before in FW. There is one difference:

In the web applications, [e.g. ASP.NET CORE WEB API] you need to use app.config and not web.config for your appSettings or configurationSection. You might need to use web.config but only if you deploying your site via IIS. You place IIS-specific settings into web.config

I've tested it with netstandard20 DLL and Asp.net Core Web Api and it is all working.

Curl error 60, SSL certificate issue: self signed certificate in certificate chain

Answers suggesting to disable CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER should not be accepted. The question is "Why doesn't it work with cURL", and as correctly pointed out by Martijn Hols, it is dangerous.

The error is probably caused by not having an up-to-date bundle of CA root certificates. This is typically a text file with a bunch of cryptographic signatures that curl uses to verify a host’s SSL certificate.

You need to make sure that your installation of PHP has one of these files, and that it’s up to date (otherwise download one here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html).

Then set in php.ini:

curl.cainfo = <absolute_path_to> cacert.pem

If you are setting it at runtime, use:

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(__FILE__)."/cacert.pem");

Apache 2.4 - Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error

You're getting into looping most likely due to these rules:

RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]

Just comment it out and try again in a new browser.

The type 'string' must be a non-nullable type in order to use it as parameter T in the generic type or method 'System.Nullable<T>'

string is a reference type, a class. You can only use Nullable<T> or the T? C# syntactic sugar with non-nullable value types such as int and Guid.

In particular, as string is a reference type, an expression of type string can already be null:

string lookMaNoText = null;

WAMP/XAMPP is responding very slow over localhost

I have the same issue but I resolve issue from database.I had rename table name and create new table with out index through which all indexes effected and I had huge amount of data in table.I again rename original table, it has fixed for me.

Is it possible to open developer tools console in Chrome on Android phone?

You can do it using remote debugging, here is official documentation. Basic process:

  1. Connect your android device
  2. Select your device: More tools > Inspect devices* from dev tools on pc/mac.
  3. Authorize on your mobile.
  4. Happy debugging!!

* This is now "Remote devices".

Extract digits from string - StringUtils Java

Just one line:

int value = Integer.parseInt(string.replaceAll("[^0-9]", ""));

How do I find the absolute position of an element using jQuery?

.offset() will return the offset position of an element as a simple object, eg:

var position = $(element).offset(); // position = { left: 42, top: 567 }

You can use this return value to position other elements at the same spot:

$(anotherElement).css(position)

Display number always with 2 decimal places in <input>

Another shorthand to (@maudulus's answer) to remove {maxFractionDigits} since it's optional.

You can use {{numberExample | number : '1.2'}}

Port 80 is being used by SYSTEM (PID 4), what is that?

A new service called "Web Deployment Agent Service" (MsDepSvc) can also trigger "System" with PID=4 to listen on port 80.

How to get the file ID so I can perform a download of a file from Google Drive API on Android?

Stan0 intial idea is not a good idea. There can be multiple files with the same name. Very error prone implementation. Stan0's second idea is the correct way.

When you first upload the file to google drive store its id (in SharedPreferences is probably easiest) for later use

ie.

file= mDrive.files().insert(body).execute();      //initial insert of file to google drive

whereverYouWantToStoreIt= file.getId(); //now you have the guaranteed unique id 
                                        //of the file just inserted. Store it and use it 
                                        //whenever you need to fetch this file

Java - Find shortest path between 2 points in a distance weighted map

This maybe too late but No one provided a clear explanation of how the algorithm works

The idea of Dijkstra is simple, let me show this with the following pseudocode.

Dijkstra partitions all nodes into two distinct sets. Unsettled and settled. Initially all nodes are in the unsettled set, e.g. they must be still evaluated.

At first only the source node is put in the set of settledNodes. A specific node will be moved to the settled set if the shortest path from the source to a particular node has been found.

The algorithm runs until the unsettledNodes set is empty. In each iteration it selects the node with the lowest distance to the source node out of the unsettledNodes set. E.g. It reads all edges which are outgoing from the source and evaluates each destination node from these edges which are not yet settled.

If the known distance from the source to this node can be reduced when the selected edge is used, the distance is updated and the node is added to the nodes which need evaluation.

Please note that Dijkstra also determines the pre-successor of each node on its way to the source. I left that out of the pseudo code to simplify it.

Credits to Lars Vogel

Convert generic List/Enumerable to DataTable?

try this

public static DataTable ListToDataTable<T>(IList<T> lst)
{

    currentDT = CreateTable<T>();

    Type entType = typeof(T);

    PropertyDescriptorCollection properties = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(entType);
    foreach (T item in lst)
    {
        DataRow row = currentDT.NewRow();
        foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
        {

            if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(Nullable<decimal>) || prop.PropertyType == typeof(Nullable<int>) || prop.PropertyType == typeof(Nullable<Int64>))
            {
                if (prop.GetValue(item) == null)
                    row[prop.Name] = 0;
                else
                    row[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item);
            }
            else
                row[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item);                    

        }
        currentDT.Rows.Add(row);
    }

    return currentDT;
}

public static DataTable CreateTable<T>()
{
    Type entType = typeof(T);
    DataTable tbl = new DataTable(DTName);
    PropertyDescriptorCollection properties = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(entType);
    foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
    {
        if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(Nullable<decimal>))
             tbl.Columns.Add(prop.Name, typeof(decimal));
        else if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(Nullable<int>))
            tbl.Columns.Add(prop.Name, typeof(int));
        else if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(Nullable<Int64>))
            tbl.Columns.Add(prop.Name, typeof(Int64));
        else
             tbl.Columns.Add(prop.Name, prop.PropertyType);
    }
    return tbl;
}

symfony2 twig path with parameter url creation

Set the default value for the active argument in the route.

Selenium Webdriver submit() vs click()

I was a great fan of submit() but not anymore.

In the web page that I test, I enter username and password and click Login. When I invoked usernametextbox.submit(), password textbox is cleared (becomes empty) and login keeps failing.

After breaking my head for sometime, when I replaced usernametextbox.submit() with loginbutton.click(), it worked like a magic.

What is the default boolean value in C#?

Try this (using default keyword)

 bool foo = default(bool); if (foo) { } 

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.

no operator "<<" matches these operands

You're not including the standard <string> header.

You got [un]lucky that some of its pertinent definitions were accidentally made available by the other standard headers that you did include ... but operator<< was not.

jQuery UI Dialog with ASP.NET button postback

The $('#dialog').parent().appendTo($("form:first")) solution works fine in IE 9. But in IE 8 it makes the dialog appear and disappear directly. You can't see this unless you place some alerts so it seems that the dialog never appears. I spend one morning finding a solution that works on both versions and the only solution that works on both versions 8 and 9 is:

$(".ui-dialog").prependTo("form");

Hope this helps others that are struggeling with the same issue

PHP MySQL Query Where x = $variable

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT `note` FROM `glogin_users` WHERE email = '".$email."'");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
echo $row['note'];

CMake link to external library

Set libraries search path first:

LINK_DIRECTORIES(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/res)

And then just do

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(GLBall mylib)

How to loop through all but the last item of a list?

To compare each item with the next one in an iterator without instantiating a list:

import itertools
it = (x for x in range(10))
data1, data2 = itertools.tee(it)
data2.next()
for a, b in itertools.izip(data1, data2):
  print a, b

How to copy a file from one directory to another using PHP?

Best way to copy all files from one folder to another using PHP

<?php
$src = "/home/www/example.com/source/folders/123456";  // source folder or file
$dest = "/home/www/example.com/test/123456";   // destination folder or file        

shell_exec("cp -r $src $dest");

echo "<H2>Copy files completed!</H2>"; //output when done
?>

List of tuples to dictionary

Just call dict() on the list of tuples directly

>>> my_list = [('a', 1), ('b', 2)]
>>> dict(my_list)
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}

How can I add a variable to console.log?

When using ES6 you can also do this:

var name = prompt("what is your name?");
console.log(`story ${name} story`);

Note: You need to use backticks `` instead of "" or '' to do it like this.

Vertical Tabs with JQuery?

I wouldn't expect vertical tabs to need different Javascript from horizontal tabs. The only thing that would be different is the CSS for presenting the tabs and content on the page. JS for tabs generally does no more than show/hide/maybe load content.

Git Pull While Ignoring Local Changes?

For me the following worked:

(1) First fetch all changes:

$ git fetch --all

(2) Then reset the master:

$ git reset --hard origin/master

(3) Pull/update:

$ git pull

How to increment datetime by custom months in python without using library

Here's my salt :

current = datetime.datetime(mydate.year, mydate.month, 1)
next_month = datetime.datetime(mydate.year + int(mydate.month / 12), ((mydate.month % 12) + 1), 1)

Quick and easy :)

How do I display Ruby on Rails form validation error messages one at a time?

I resolved it like this:

<% @user.errors.each do |attr, msg| %>
  <li>
    <%= @user.errors.full_messages_for(attr).first if @user.errors[attr].first == msg %>
  </li>
<% end %>

This way you are using the locales for the error messages.

How to filter in NaN (pandas)?

Pandas uses numpy's NaN value. Use numpy.isnan to obtain a Boolean vector from a pandas series.

What is polymorphism, what is it for, and how is it used?

Generally speaking, it's the ability to interface a number of different types of object using the same or a superficially similar API. There are various forms:

  • Function overloading: defining multiple functions with the same name and different parameter types, such as sqrt(float), sqrt(double) and sqrt(complex). In most languages that allow this, the compiler will automatically select the correct one for the type of argument being passed into it, thus this is compile-time polymorphism.

  • Virtual methods in OOP: a method of a class can have various implementations tailored to the specifics of its subclasses; each of these is said to override the implementation given in the base class. Given an object that may be of the base class or any of its subclasses, the correct implementation is selected on the fly, thus this is run-time polymorphism.

  • Templates: a feature of some OO languages whereby a function, class, etc. can be parameterised by a type. For example, you can define a generic "list" template class, and then instantiate it as "list of integers", "list of strings", maybe even "list of lists of strings" or the like. Generally, you write the code once for a data structure of arbitrary element type, and the compiler generates versions of it for the various element types.

HTML5: Slider with two inputs possible?

No, the HTML5 range input only accepts one input. I would recommend you to use something like the jQuery UI range slider for that task.

Is it possible to set the equivalent of a src attribute of an img tag in CSS?

Here is a very good solution -> http://css-tricks.com/replace-the-image-in-an-img-with-css/

Pro(s) and Con(s):
(+) works with vector image that have relative width/height (a thing that RobAu's answer does not handle)
(+) is cross browser (works also for IE8+)
(+) it only uses CSS. So no need to modify the img src (or if you do not have access/do not want to change the already existing img src attribute).
(-) sorry, it does use the background css attribute :)

Travel/Hotel API's?

HotelsCombined has an easy-to-access and useful service to download the data feed files with hotels. Not exactly API, but something you can get, parse and use. Here is how you do it:

  1. Go to http://www.hotelscombined.com/Affiliates.aspx
  2. Register there (no company or bank data is needed)
  3. Open “Data feeds” page
  4. Choose “Standard data feed” -> “Single file” -> “CSV format” (you may get XML as well)

If you are interested in details, you may find the sample Python code to filter CSV file to get hotels for a specific city here:

http://mikhail.io/2012/05/17/api-to-get-the-list-of-hotels/

Update:

Unfortunately, HotelsCombined.com has introduced the new regulations: they've restricted the access to data feeds by default. To get the access, a partner must submit some information on why one needs the data. The HC team will review it and then (maybe) will grant access.

For-loop vs while loop in R

Because 1 is numeric, but not integer (i.e. it's a floating point number), and 1:6000 is numeric and integer.

> print(class(1))
[1] "numeric"
> print(class(1:60000))
[1] "integer"

60000 squared is 3.6 billion, which is NOT representable in signed 32-bit integer, hence you get an overflow error:

> as.integer(60000)*as.integer(60000)
[1] NA
Warning message:
In as.integer(60000) * as.integer(60000) : NAs produced by integer overflow

3.6 billion is easily representable in floating point, however:

> as.single(60000)*as.single(60000)
[1] 3.6e+09

To fix your for code, convert to a floating point representation:

function (N)
{
    for(i in as.single(1:N)) {
        y <- i*i
    }
}

How to make Toolbar transparent?

Checking Google's example Source Code I found out how to make the toolbar completely transparent. It was simpler than I thought. We just have to create a simple Shape drawable like this.

The name of the drawable is toolbar_bg

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<gradient
    android:angle="90"
    android:startColor="@android:color/transparent"
    android:endColor="@android:color/transparent"
    android:type="linear" />
</shape>

And then in the fragment or activity.. Add the toolbar like this.

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:background="@drawable/toolbar_bg"
        android:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"/>

And here we will have a fully transparent toolbar.

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Don't add the <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout > if you do, this won't work.

Note: If you need the AppBarLayout, set the elevation to 0 so it doesn't draw its shadow.

How do I specify the exit code of a console application in .NET?

Just an another way:

public static class ApplicationExitCodes
{
    public static readonly int Failure = 1;
    public static readonly int Success = 0;
}

How to Make Laravel Eloquent "IN" Query?

Here is how you do in Eloquent

$users = User::whereIn('id', array(1, 2, 3))->get();

And if you are using Query builder then :

$users = DB::table('users')->whereIn('id', array(1, 2, 3))->get();

What is the best java image processing library/approach?

I know this question is quite old, but as new software comes out it does help to get some new links to projects that might be interesting for folks.

imgscalr is pure-Java image resizing (and simple ops like padding, cropping, rotating, brighten/dimming, etc.) library that is painfully simple to use - a single class consists of a set of simple graphics operations all defined as static methods that you pass an image and get back a result.

The most basic example of using the library would look like this:

BufferedImage thumbnail = Scalr.resize(image, 150);

And a more typical usage to generate image thumbnails using a few quality tweaks and the like might look like this:

import static org.imgscalr.Scalr.*;

public static BufferedImage createThumbnail(BufferedImage img) {
    // Create quickly, then smooth and brighten it.
    img = resize(img, Method.SPEED, 125, OP_ANTIALIAS, OP_BRIGHTER);

    // Let's add a little border before we return result.
    return pad(img, 4);
}

All image-processing operations use the raw Java2D pipeline (which is hardware accelerated on major platforms) and won't introduce the pain of calling out via JNI like library contention in your code.

imgscalr has also been deployed in large-scale productions in quite a few places - the inclusion of the AsyncScalr class makes it a perfect drop-in for any server-side image processing.

There are numerous tweaks to image-quality you can use to trade off between speed and quality with the highest ULTRA_QUALITY mode providing a scaled result that looks better than GIMP's Lancoz3 implementation.

How to align texts inside of an input?

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.IssueDate, new { @class = "form-control", name = "inv_issue_date", id = "inv_issue_date", title = "Select Invoice Issue Date", placeholder = "dd/mm/yyyy", style = "text-align:center;" })

How to compile a c++ program in Linux?

g++ -o foo foo.cpp

g++ --> Driver for cc1plus compiler

-o --> Indicates the output file (foo is the name of output file here. Can be any name)

foo.cpp --> Source file to be compiled

To execute the compiled file simply type

./foo

Using Get-childitem to get a list of files modified in the last 3 days

Here's a minor update to the solution provided by Dave Sexton. Many times you need multiple filters. The Filter parameter can only take a single string whereas the -Include parameter can take a string array. if you have a large file tree it also makes sense to only get the date to compare with once, not for each file. Here's my updated version:

$compareDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(-3)    
@(Get-ChildItem -Path c:\pstbak\*.* -Filter '*.pst','*.mdb' -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -gt $compareDate}).Count

How do I correctly use "Not Equal" in MS Access?

I have struggled to get a query to return fields from Table 1 that do not exist in Table 2 and tried most of the answers above until I found a very simple way to obtain the results that I wanted.

I set the join properties between table 1 and table 2 to the third setting (3) (All fields from Table 1 and only those records from Table 2 where the joined fields are equal) and placed a Is Null in the criteria field of the query in Table 2 in the field that I was testing for. It works perfectly.

Thanks to all above though.

How to add parameters to an external data query in Excel which can't be displayed graphically?

If you have Excel 2007 you can write VBA to alter the connections (i.e. the external data queries) in a workbook and update the CommandText property. If you simply add ? where you want a parameter, then next time you refresh the data it'll prompt for the values for the connections! magic. When you look at the properties of the Connection the Parameters button will now be active and useable as normal.

E.g. I'd write a macro, step through it in the debugger, and make it set the CommandText appropriately. Once you've done this you can remove the macro - it's just a means to update the query.

Sub UpdateQuery
    Dim cn As WorkbookConnection
    Dim odbcCn As ODBCConnection, oledbCn As OLEDBConnection
    For Each cn In ThisWorkbook.Connections
        If cn.Type = xlConnectionTypeODBC Then
            Set odbcCn = cn.ODBCConnection

            ' If you do have multiple connections you would want to modify  
            ' the line below each time you run through the loop.
            odbcCn.CommandText = "select blah from someTable where blah like ?"

        ElseIf cn.Type = xlConnectionTypeOLEDB Then
            Set oledbCn = cn.OLEDBConnection
            oledbCn.CommandText = "select blah from someTable where blah like ?" 
        End If
    Next
End Sub

How to get parameter on Angular2 route in Angular way?

Update: Sep 2019

As a few people have mentioned, the parameters in paramMap should be accessed using the common MapAPI:

To get a snapshot of the params, when you don't care that they may change:

this.bankName = this.route.snapshot.paramMap.get('bank');

To subscribe and be alerted to changes in the parameter values (typically as a result of the router's navigation)

this.route.paramMap.subscribe( paramMap => {
    this.bankName = paramMap.get('bank');
})

Update: Aug 2017

Since Angular 4, params have been deprecated in favor of the new interface paramMap. The code for the problem above should work if you simply substitute one for the other.

Original Answer

If you inject ActivatedRoute in your component, you'll be able to extract the route parameters

    import {ActivatedRoute} from '@angular/router';
    ...
    
    constructor(private route:ActivatedRoute){}
    bankName:string;
    
    ngOnInit(){
        // 'bank' is the name of the route parameter
        this.bankName = this.route.snapshot.params['bank'];
    }

If you expect users to navigate from bank to bank directly, without navigating to another component first, you ought to access the parameter through an observable:

    ngOnInit(){
        this.route.params.subscribe( params =>
            this.bankName = params['bank'];
        )
    }

For the docs, including the differences between the two check out this link and search for "activatedroute"

int array to string

The most efficient way is not to convert each int into a string, but rather create one string out of an array of chars. Then the garbage collector only has one new temp object to worry about.

int[] arr = {0,1,2,3,0,1};
string result = new string(Array.ConvertAll<int,char>(arr, x => Convert.ToChar(x + '0')));

How to apply border radius in IE8 and below IE8 browsers?

PIE makes Internet Explorer 6-9 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features

http://css3pie.com/

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How to convert float value to integer in php?

There is always intval() - Not sure if this is what you were looking for...

example: -

$floatValue = 4.5;
echo intval($floatValue);    // Returns 4

It won't round off the value to an integer, but will strip out the decimal and trailing digits, and return the integer before the decimal.

Here is some documentation for this: - http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php

getting a checkbox array value from POST

Your $_POST array contains the invite array, so reading it out as

<?php
if(isset($_POST['invite'])){
  $invite = $_POST['invite'];
  echo $invite;
}
?>

won't work since it's an array. You have to loop through the array to get all of the values.

<?php
if(isset($_POST['invite'])){
  if (is_array($_POST['invite'])) {
    foreach($_POST['invite'] as $value){
      echo $value;
    }
  } else {
    $value = $_POST['invite'];
    echo $value;
  }
}
?>

Checking for directory and file write permissions in .NET

Deny takes precedence over Allow. Local rules take precedence over inherited rules. I have seen many solutions (including some answers shown here), but none of them takes into account whether rules are inherited or not. Therefore I suggest the following approach that considers rule inheritance (neatly wrapped into a class):

public class CurrentUserSecurity
{
    WindowsIdentity _currentUser;
    WindowsPrincipal _currentPrincipal;

    public CurrentUserSecurity()
    {
        _currentUser = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
        _currentPrincipal = new WindowsPrincipal(_currentUser);
    }

    public bool HasAccess(DirectoryInfo directory, FileSystemRights right)
    {
        // Get the collection of authorization rules that apply to the directory.
        AuthorizationRuleCollection acl = directory.GetAccessControl()
            .GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(SecurityIdentifier));
        return HasFileOrDirectoryAccess(right, acl);
    }

    public bool HasAccess(FileInfo file, FileSystemRights right)
    {
        // Get the collection of authorization rules that apply to the file.
        AuthorizationRuleCollection acl = file.GetAccessControl()
            .GetAccessRules(true, true, typeof(SecurityIdentifier));
        return HasFileOrDirectoryAccess(right, acl);
    }

    private bool HasFileOrDirectoryAccess(FileSystemRights right,
                                          AuthorizationRuleCollection acl)
    {
        bool allow = false;
        bool inheritedAllow = false;
        bool inheritedDeny = false;

        for (int i = 0; i < acl.Count; i++) {
            var currentRule = (FileSystemAccessRule)acl[i];
            // If the current rule applies to the current user.
            if (_currentUser.User.Equals(currentRule.IdentityReference) ||
                _currentPrincipal.IsInRole(
                                (SecurityIdentifier)currentRule.IdentityReference)) {

                if (currentRule.AccessControlType.Equals(AccessControlType.Deny)) {
                    if ((currentRule.FileSystemRights & right) == right) {
                        if (currentRule.IsInherited) {
                            inheritedDeny = true;
                        } else { // Non inherited "deny" takes overall precedence.
                            return false;
                        }
                    }
                } else if (currentRule.AccessControlType
                                                  .Equals(AccessControlType.Allow)) {
                    if ((currentRule.FileSystemRights & right) == right) {
                        if (currentRule.IsInherited) {
                            inheritedAllow = true;
                        } else {
                            allow = true;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        if (allow) { // Non inherited "allow" takes precedence over inherited rules.
            return true;
        }
        return inheritedAllow && !inheritedDeny;
    }
}

However, I made the experience that this does not always work on remote computers as you will not always have the right to query the file access rights there. The solution in that case is to try; possibly even by just trying to create a temporary file, if you need to know the access right before working with the "real" files.

How to find the privileges and roles granted to a user in Oracle?

Look at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/privs.htm#15665

Check USER_SYS_PRIVS, USER_TAB_PRIVS, USER_ROLE_PRIVS tables with these select statements

SELECT * FROM USER_SYS_PRIVS; 
SELECT * FROM USER_TAB_PRIVS; 
SELECT * FROM USER_ROLE_PRIVS;

Bash script to calculate time elapsed

try using time with the elapsed seconds option:

/usr/bin/time -f%e sleep 1 under bash.

or \time -f%e sleep 1 in interactive bash.

see the time man page:

Users of the bash shell need to use an explicit path in order to run the external time command and not the shell builtin variant. On system where time is installed in /usr/bin, the first example would become /usr/bin/time wc /etc/hosts

and

FORMATTING THE OUTPUT
...
    %      A literal '%'.
    e      Elapsed  real  (wall  clock) time used by the process, in
                 seconds.

Java ElasticSearch None of the configured nodes are available

I had the same problem. my problem was that the version of the dependency had conflict with the elasticsearch version. check the version in ip:9200 and use the dependency version that match it

How to validate phone number in laravel 5.2?

Use required|numeric|size:11 Instead of required|min:11|numeric

Auto Generate Database Diagram MySQL

Visual Paradigm for UML 9.0

It's awesome I used to work with mysql bench but for big databases (something like more than 300 tables) won't work very well but visual paradigm reverse database works so much better

URL.Action() including route values

You also can use in this form:

<a href="@Url.Action("Information", "Admin", null)"> Admin</a>

How can I remove a substring from a given String?

private static void replaceChar() {
    String str = "hello world";
    final String[] res = Arrays.stream(str.split(""))
            .filter(s -> !s.equalsIgnoreCase("o"))
            .toArray(String[]::new);
    System.out.println(String.join("", res));
}

In case you have some complicated logic to filter the char, just another way instead of replace().

Cleanest Way to Invoke Cross-Thread Events

I made the following 'universal' cross thread call class for my own purpose, but I think it's worth to share it:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace CrossThreadCalls
{
  public static class clsCrossThreadCalls
  {
    private delegate void SetAnyPropertyCallBack(Control c, string Property, object Value);
    public static void SetAnyProperty(Control c, string Property, object Value)
    {
      if (c.GetType().GetProperty(Property) != null)
      {
        //The given property exists
        if (c.InvokeRequired)
        {
          SetAnyPropertyCallBack d = new SetAnyPropertyCallBack(SetAnyProperty);
          c.BeginInvoke(d, c, Property, Value);
        }
        else
        {
          c.GetType().GetProperty(Property).SetValue(c, Value, null);
        }
      }
    }

    private delegate void SetTextPropertyCallBack(Control c, string Value);
    public static void SetTextProperty(Control c, string Value)
    {
      if (c.InvokeRequired)
      {
        SetTextPropertyCallBack d = new SetTextPropertyCallBack(SetTextProperty);
        c.BeginInvoke(d, c, Value);
      }
      else
      {
        c.Text = Value;
      }
    }
  }

And you can simply use SetAnyProperty() from another thread:

CrossThreadCalls.clsCrossThreadCalls.SetAnyProperty(lb_Speed, "Text", KvaserCanReader.GetSpeed.ToString());

In this example the above KvaserCanReader class runs its own thread and makes a call to set the text property of the lb_Speed label on the main form.

Tools to get a pictorial function call graph of code

Understand does a very good job of creating call graphs.

How to return a result from a VBA function

VBA functions treat the function name itself as a sort of variable. So instead of using a "return" statement, you would just say:

test = 1

Notice, though, that this does not break out of the function. Any code after this statement will also be executed. Thus, you can have many assignment statements that assign different values to test, and whatever the value is when you reach the end of the function will be the value returned.

How to include route handlers in multiple files in Express?

Even though this an older question I stumbled here looking for a solution to a similar issue. After trying some of the solutions here I ended up going a different direction and thought I would add my solution for anyone else who ends up here.

In express 4.x you can get an instance of the router object and import another file that contains more routes. You can even do this recursively so your routes import other routes allowing you to create easy to maintain url paths. For example if I have a separate route file for my '/tests' endpoint already and want to add a new set of routes for '/tests/automated' I may want to break these '/automated' routes out into a another file to keep my '/test' file small and easy to manage. It also lets you logically group routes together by URL path which can be really convenient.

Contents of ./app.js:

var express = require('express'),
    app = express();

var testRoutes = require('./routes/tests');

// Import my test routes into the path '/test'
app.use('/tests', testRoutes);

Contents of ./routes/tests.js

var express = require('express'),
    router = express.Router();

var automatedRoutes = require('./testRoutes/automated');

router
  // Add a binding to handle '/tests'
  .get('/', function(){
    // render the /tests view
  })

  // Import my automated routes into the path '/tests/automated'
  // This works because we're already within the '/tests' route so we're simply appending more routes to the '/tests' endpoint
  .use('/automated', automatedRoutes);
 
module.exports = router;

Contents of ./routes/testRoutes/automated.js:

var express = require('express'),
    router = express.Router();

router
   // Add a binding for '/tests/automated/'
  .get('/', function(){
    // render the /tests/automated view
  })

module.exports = router;

What are unit tests, integration tests, smoke tests, and regression tests?

  • Integration testing: Integration testing is the integrate another element
  • Smoke testing: Smoke testing is also known as build version testing. Smoke testing is the initial testing process exercised to check whether the software under test is ready/stable for further testing.
  • Regression testing: Regression testing is repeated testing. Whether new software is effected in another module or not.
  • Unit testing: It is a white box testing. Only developers involve in it

Stopword removal with NLTK

You can use string.punctuation with built-in NLTK stopwords list:

from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize, sent_tokenize
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from string import punctuation

words = tokenize(text)
wordsWOStopwords = removeStopWords(words)

def tokenize(text):
        sents = sent_tokenize(text)
        return [word_tokenize(sent) for sent in sents]

def removeStopWords(words):
        customStopWords = set(stopwords.words('english')+list(punctuation))
        return [word for word in words if word not in customStopWords]

NLTK stopwords complete list

Lost connection to MySQL server during query?

You need to increase the timeout on your connection. If you can't or don't want to do that for some reason, you could try calling:

data = db.query(sql).store_result()

This will fetch all the results immediately, then your connection won't time out halfway through iterating over them.

Fast ceiling of an integer division in C / C++

Compile with O3, The compiler performs optimization well.

q = x / y;
if (x % y)  ++q;

how to specify new environment location for conda create

I ran into a similar situation. I did have access to a larger data drive. Depending on your situation, and the access you have to the server you can consider

ln -s /datavol/path/to/your/.conda /home/user/.conda

Then subsequent conda commands will put data to the symlinked dir in datavol

How to find array / dictionary value using key?

It's as simple as this :

$array[$key];

Python3 integer division

Try this:

a = 1
b = 2
int_div  = a // b

Should I Dispose() DataSet and DataTable?

I call dispose anytime an object implements IDisposeable. It's there for a reason.

DataSets can be huge memory hogs. The sooner they can be marked for clean up, the better.

update

It's been 5 years since I answered this question. I still agree with my answer. If there is a dispose method, it should be called when you are done with the object. The IDispose interface was implemented for a reason.

How do I drop a function if it already exists?

This works for any object, not just functions:

IF OBJECT_ID('YourObjectName') IS NOT NULL 

then just add your flavor of object, as in:

IF OBJECT_ID('YourFunction') IS NOT NULL
   DROP FUNCTION YourFunction

Excel VBA Open a Folder

I use this to open a workbook and then copy that workbook's data to the template.

Private Sub CommandButton24_Click()
Set Template = ActiveWorkbook
 With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen)
    .InitialFileName = "I:\Group - Finance" ' Yu can select any folder you want
    .Filters.Clear
    .Title = "Your Title"
    If Not .Show Then
        MsgBox "No file selected.": Exit Sub
    End If
    Workbooks.OpenText .SelectedItems(1)

'The below is to copy the file into a new sheet in the workbook and paste those values in sheet 1

    Set myfile = ActiveWorkbook
    ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(1).Copy after:=ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1)
    myfile.Close
    Template.Activate
    ActiveSheet.Cells.Select
    Selection.Copy
    Sheets("Sheet1").Select
    Cells.Select
    ActiveSheet.Paste

End With

Android studio logcat nothing to show

Easy fix that worked for me (after trying some of these other suggestion). My logcat was sitting blank in a separate window (on my second screen). Just had to drag the Logcat tab back to it's original place in the debug panel next to the Debugger and Console tabs, and VOILA... it began immediately updating and showing all processes verbose. So (If your logcat is anywhere outside of the debugger panel (i.e. the logcat tab isn't sitting nested alongside the debugger and console tab) then it won't receive updates and will sit there blankly. Don't know if this is an issue with older versions of Android Studio. But again, easy to try and if it works... it works!!

Where/how can I download (and install) the Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 for Windows 8, 64 bit?

On modern Windows this driver isn't available by default anymore, but you can download as Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable on the MS site. If your app is 32 bits be sure to download and install the 32 bits variant because to my knowledge the 32 and 64 bit variant cannot coexist.

Depending on how your app locates its db driver, that might be all that's needed. However, if you use an UDL file there's one extra step - you need to edit that file. Unfortunately, on a 64bits machine the wizard used to edit UDL files is 64 bits by default, it won't see the JET driver and just slap whatever driver it finds first in the UDL file. There are 2 ways to solve this issue:

  1. start the 32 bits UDL wizard like this: C:\Windows\syswow64\rundll32.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\System\Ole DB\oledb32.dll",OpenDSLFile C:\path\to\your.udl. Note that I could use this technique on a Win7 64 Pro, but it didn't work on a Server 2008R2 (could be my mistake, just mentioning)
  2. open the UDL file in Notepad or another text editor, it should more or less have this format:

[oledb] ; Everything after this line is an OLE DB initstring Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Path\To\The\database.mdb;Persist Security Info=False

That should allow your app to start correctly.

Execute JavaScript code stored as a string

New Function and apply() together works also

var a=new Function('alert(1);')
a.apply(null)

SyntaxError: "can't assign to function call"

You are assigning to a function call:

invest(initial_amount,top_company(5,year,year+1)) = subsequent_amount

which is illegal in Python. The question is, what do you want to do? What does invest() do? I suppose it returns a value, namely what you're trying to use as subsequent_amount, right?

If so, then something like this should work:

amount = invest(amount,top_company(5,year,year+1),year)

Adding a 'share by email' link to website

Something like this might be the easiest way.

<a href="mailto:?subject=I wanted you to see this site&amp;body=Check out this site http://www.website.com."
   title="Share by Email">
  <img src="http://png-2.findicons.com/files/icons/573/must_have/48/mail.png">
</a>

You could find another email image and add that if you wanted.

Is there any difference between GROUP BY and DISTINCT

Funtional efficiency is totally different. If you would like to select only "return value" except duplicate one, use distinct is better than group by. Because "group by" include ( sorting + removing ) , "distinct" include ( removing )

HTML/CSS: Making two floating divs the same height

It is year 2012+n, so if you no longer care about IE6/7, display:table, display:table-row and display:table-cell work in all modern browsers:

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200405/equal_height_boxes_with_css/

Update 2016-06-17: If you think time has come for display:flex, check out Flexbox Froggy.