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How to write Java Postgres JDBC JUnit Test
Postgres is one of the leading open-source RDBMS for developing applications using Java. As now development involves more and more TDD, we need to write Junit tests that can run independently on any build environment without the dependency on any required Database engine. For the Postgres database, I found one very handy Java lib that…
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How to validate UUID String in Java
Many times we are supposed to get a string and that should be a valid UUID or GUID. Unfortunately Java UUID class don’t provide any function to validate whether a string is valid UUID or not. In many places, you will see to use the UUID java class function fromString, if any exception then the…
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Kafka Spring Boot Stateless Stream Processing
Kafka Streams is a client library that is used to process a stream of messages on a topic and either store it within Kafka or send it to some other Kafka topic. One can check complete documentation of Kafka Streams. In Kafka Stream, I will show with one example, how one can use Spring boot…
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Kafka Spring Boot Example of Producer and Consumer
Apache Kafka is open-source and widely used software for event stream platform. It is mainly used for service integration, data integration, creating data pipelines and real-time data analytics, and many. You can get more details from here Apache Kafka. For development, it has libs for almost every development platform. In this post, I am going…
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Spring Boot Upload File to S3 Asynchronously
In Spring Boot uploading files to S3 can be implemented using the REST API POST/PUT method very easily. This can be implemented using Spring WebMVC and was s3 SDK. I this example I used the following dependencies using Gradle. Gradle dependencies Spring boot config for async upload file to AWS S3 We need to define…
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Extract and Strip Text From PDF in Java Example
Extracting text from a pdf file using Java is quite easy using the Apache PDFBox Java library. This library provides PDFTextStripper class which is used to strip text from PDF files. This library can be included using Gradle, maven, and other builds systems from the Maven repository. Gradle dependency: Maven dependency: Example to Extract text…
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Adding Watermark to PDF using Java
Adding a text-based watermark to existing PDF using Java is quite simple using the Apache PDFBox opensource free library. This library is very handing and can be used to create new PDF and modify existing files. This can be easily added to maven and Gradle based projects by adding the following reference. Gradle dependency: Maven…
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Rest Client For Java using HttpClient and Jakson
There are many HttpClient and Rest Clients lib is available for Java developers. The most common is Spring Rest Template for REST client and Apache HttpClient a generic HTTP client. I personally like the Apache HttpClient library for making REST calls and Http Calls. I found one generic kind of REST client using Apache HttpClient…
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Java HttpClient POST, PUT and Patch Example with Body
Java HttpClient library from Apache is very good, it provides many interfaces to perform different operations like POST, PUT, and PATCH. One can also send String or URI encoded form and another payload very easily using the HttpEntity interface. You can easily add query strings and custom headers. To post JSON string, XML, or simple…
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HttpClient Java Get Example with Query String and Custom Headers
Apache HttpClient java library is my most preferred HttpClient library for making HTTP requests. One can easily add parameters, body, and custom headers with clean interfaces. Since version 4.0 it also provides EntityUtils to read the response from HttpResponse into string and byte arrays. Here is a complete example to make get requests with parameres…