Removing duplicates by field/property in Java 8

by GarciaPL on Friday, 9 February 2018

How to remove duplicates in Java 8 using field or property ? We might use reduce!

List<MyClass> distinctByField = myList.stream().reduce(new ArrayList<>(), (List<MyClass> accumulator, MyClass myClass) -> {
    if (accumulator.stream().noneMatch(item -> item.getField().equals(myClass.getField()))) {
        accumulator.add(MyClass);
    }
    return accumulator;
}, (acc1, acc2) -> {
    acc1.addAll(acc2);
    return acc1;
});

Technical Debt - Identifying and Managing

by GarciaPL on Monday, 20 November 2017


Client Backend - Project for interview

by GarciaPL on Sunday, 1 October 2017

Recently I was creating small distributed application called ClientBackend just for interview purpose. Solution consists of thee microservices :

  • Client (received request from API Gateway and sends it to Backend)
  • Backend (performs operation defined in request)
  • Discovery (Spring Eureka)
  • API Gateway (Spring Zuul)
Technology stack :
  • Java 8
  • Spring Boot
  • Hystrix
  • Eureka
  • Feign
  • Zuul
  • TypeOf

More info about the solution https://github.com/GarciaPL/ClientBackend

Hamcrest Custom Exception Matcher

by GarciaPL on Friday, 11 August 2017

Sometimes asserting custom exception is difficult. Sometimes it's not, for instance when you are using AssertJ, it's very quite easy to achieve. In this post I would like to highlight how to achieve that using Hamcrest matcher.

Below you might find a BaseExceptionMatcher which can be easily extended for our needs. Let's assume that we have an exception with four properties like errorType, errorCode, status and description.

import com.my.package.ErrorCode;
import com.my.package.ErrorType;
import com.my.package.base.BaseException;
import com.my.package.MessageType;
import org.hamcrest.Description;
import org.hamcrest.TypeSafeMatcher;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

public abstract class BaseExceptionMatcher extends TypeSafeMatcher<BaseException> {
    protected ErrorType expectedErrorType;
    protected ErrorCode expectedErrorCode;
    protected Response.Status expectedStatus;
    protected String expectedDescription;

    public BaseExceptionMatcher(ErrorCode expectedErrorCode, Response.Status expectedStatus, ErrorType expectedErrorType, String expectedDescription) {
        this.expectedErrorCode = expectedErrorCode;
        this.expectedStatus = expectedStatus;
        this.expectedErrorType = expectedErrorType;
        this.expectedDescription = expectedDescription;
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean matchesSafely(BaseException item) {
        return item.getStatus().equals(expectedStatus) &&
                item.getError().stream().allMatch(p ->
                        p.getType().equals(expectedErrorType.name()) && p.getCode().equals(expectedErrorCode.name())) &&
                item.getError().stream().allMatch(p -> p.getDescription().contains(expectedDescription));
    }

    @Override
    public void describeTo(Description description) {
        description.appendText("Response status : ")
                .appendValue(expectedStatus.getReasonPhrase() + " (" + expectedStatus.getStatusCode() + ")")
                .appendText(" | ErrorType : ").appendValue(expectedErrorType.name())
                .appendText(" | ErrorCode : ").appendValue(expectedErrorCode.name())
                .appendText(" | Description : ").appendValue(expectedDescription);
    }

    @Override
    protected void describeMismatchSafely(BaseException item, Description mismatchDescription) {
        mismatchDescription.appendText("Exception contains response status : ")
                .appendValue(item.getStatus().getReasonPhrase() + "(" + item.getStatus().getStatusCode() + ")")
                .appendText(" | ErrorType : ").appendValue(getMessageType(item).getType())
                .appendText(" | ErrorCode : ").appendValue(getMessageType(item).getCode())
                .appendText(" | Description : ").appendValue(getMessageType(item).getDescription());
    }

    private MessageType getMessageType(BaseException item) {
        return item.getError().stream().findFirst().orElseGet(() -> {
            MessageType messageType = new MessageType();
            messageType.setType(ErrorType.APPLICATION.name());
            messageType.setCode(ErrorCode.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.name());
            messageType.setDescription("Matcher Error");
            return messageType;
        });
    }
}
Now we can create a concrete exception class which might reuse that above abstract class.
import my.package.ErrorCode;
import my.package.ErrorType;
import my.package.BaseExceptionMatcher;

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

public class MyExceptionMatcher extends BaseExceptionMatcher {

    public MyExceptionMatcher(ErrorType expectedErrorType,
                                           ErrorCode expectedErrorCode,
                                           Response.Status expectedStatus,
                                           String expectedDescription) {
        super(expectedErrorCode, expectedStatus, expectedErrorType, expectedDescription);
    }

}
So now you are ready to reuse that matcher in JUnit test. Only what you need to do is define special rule in your test as below.
@Rule
public ExpectedException expectedException = ExpectedException.none();
Last thing is just write a test which might throw an exception and reuse exception matcher written above.
public void testFailure() throws MyException {
    expectedException.expect(new MyExceptionMatcher(ErrorType.APPLICATION, ErrorCode.DOCUMENT_NOT_FOUND, Response.Status.NOT_FOUND, "Document not found"));
    //do smth to fail
}

IntelliJ with Tomcat and Gradle - Smart Tomcat

by GarciaPL on Sunday, 9 July 2017

Last time I was describing how to enable Tomcat for projects maintained by Gradle in post with title called "IntelliJ with Tomcat and Gradle using Gretty plugin". The thing that I found recently even a better way to achieve that! Moreover this way is less invasive in terms of that you do not need to append any configuration to your gradle scripts! This better way is known as a Smart Tomcat! It is a plugin for IntelliJ which allow you to configure literally everything around your app if it should be run on Tomcat.

Smart Tomcat - IntelliJ IDEA Plugins

Convert Map into Map of List - Java 8

by GarciaPL

Last time I was looking for a way to convert a Map into a Map of List. In otherwise direction, I mean backward from value up to key. Below you might find an solution for that problem using of course main Java 8 components like stream, filter, grouping and mapping.

        Map<String, String> input = new HashMap<>();
        input.put("SHARK", null);
        input.put("DOG", "HOME");
        input.put("CAT", "HOME");
        input.put("TURTLE", "HOME");
        input.put("RABBIT", "HOME");
        input.put("LION", "NOT_HOME");
        input.put("HIPPO", "NOT_HOME");
        input.put("TIGER", "NOT_HOME");
        input.put("ZEBRA", "NOT_HOME");

        Map<String, List<String>> result = input.entrySet().stream()
                .filter(i -> i.getValue() != null)
                .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(i -> i.getValue(),
                        Collectors.mapping(i -> i.getKey(), Collectors.toList())));


Results
Key : HOME with List of DOG, CAT, TURTLE and RABBIT
Key : NOT_HOME with List of LION, HIPPO, TIGER, ZEBRA