Install Artefactory Maven repository on Ubuntu 16.04

 

Follow these steps to install Artifactory Maven repository on Ubuntu 16.04 ( terminal commands, mostly )-

  1. wget -c -O- “https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=jfrog” | sudo apt-key add –
  2. echo “deb https://bintray.com/artifact/download/jfrog/artifactory-debs xenial main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/artifactory-oss.list
  3. sudo apt-get update
  4. sudo apt-get -y install jfrog-artifactory-oss
  5. Set credentials of DB accounts after running –
    1. sudo /opt/jfrog/artifactory/bin/configure.mysql.sh

Refer : https://hostpresto.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-jfrog-artifactory-on-ubuntu-14-04/

After installation, launch the Artefactory portal. Then –

  1. From Security Configuration page, remove Anonymous access (untick the checkbox).
  2. Also scroll down and activate password Encryption.
  3. Create a new user (Eg, “developer”), as the existing user is Admin, and granular permissions cannot be added to it. Also for some reason, unless we add permissions for Manage, Overwrite, Read etc individually, the Artefactory would continue to respond with 401 for any request.
  4. Logout Admin, and login as the user created in above step.
  5. Go to user profile by click on users name on top right corner, and unlock the page by entering the user’s password again.
  6. Scroll down and view the encrypted password by click on the “eye” icon adjacent to it. Note this down.
  7. From Home page, click on repository “libs release”. Unlock credentials in this panel by entering the user’s  password again.
  8. Click and “Generate Maven Settings”, and download the maven settings file.
  9. Edit Maven Settings file –
    1. Change parameterized username to username of the user (eg, developer)
    2. Change parameterized password to just the encrypted password (obtained at step 6)
    3. Save the file, and move it to /[user-home]/.m2/settings.xml
  10. Test the above setup by running “mvn deploy” on any of the maven project you have.

Spring boot and Open UI5 error : JSON.parse: unexpected end of data – when setting resourceroots

Problem : After setting the tag data-sap-ui-resourceroots the UI5 loading stops with the error “JSON.parse: unexpected end of data …”

Reason : Spring boot thymeleaf view formatter changes single quotes to double quotes, thus braking the valid JSON format of the tag.

Fix :  

  • Make the landing page a static HTML instead of a view template (move from templates folder to static, in Spring boot).
  • OR
  • Move to Velocity or JSP formatters

Spring boot : Testing Cassandra Repositories using Cassandra Unit

 

This short tutorial is about getting test classes running for the Cassandra repositories in a Spring boot application. The example provided uses Maven, Spring-data-cassandra and Cassandra-Unit. It also uses Lombok plugin, which is why you won’t see any getters/setters in these beans.

Step 1 : Add dependencies

Add these dependencies in your POM file –

Step 2 : Deciding on alternate port for test Cassandra and creating a corresponding YAML file.

  1. Download this file : another-cassandra.yaml
  2. Edit the property “native_transport_port” to the port you need the test (embedded) Cassandra to listen to. The port configured in the file is 9152, which can be used unchanged.
  3. Add the file to class-path (resources folder).

Step 3 : Write a simple test to check if the embedded Cassandra starts up fine.

[java]
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.notNullValue;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import java.io.IOException;

import me.prettyprint.cassandra.service.CassandraHostConfigurator;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.Cluster;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.ddl.KeyspaceDefinition;
import me.prettyprint.hector.api.factory.HFactory;

import org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException;
import org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException;
import org.cassandraunit.utils.EmbeddedCassandraServerHelper;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class EmbededCassandraTest {
@Before
public void before() throws TTransportException, IOException, InterruptedException, ConfigurationException {
EmbeddedCassandraServerHelper.startEmbeddedCassandra("another-cassandra.yaml", 20000);
}

@Test
public void shouldHaveAnEmbeddedCassandraStartOn9175Port() throws Exception {
Cluster cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("TestCluster", new CassandraHostConfigurator("localhost:9175"));
assertThat(cluster.getConnectionManager().getActivePools().size(), is(1));
KeyspaceDefinition keyspaceDefinition = cluster.describeKeyspace("system");
assertThat(keyspaceDefinition, notNullValue());
assertThat(keyspaceDefinition.getReplicationFactor(), is(1));

}
@AfterClass
public static void cleanCassandra() {
EmbeddedCassandraServerHelper.cleanEmbeddedCassandra();
}
}

[/java]

Step 4: Create or Edit the application-test.properties for setting the embedded cassandra server settings for the test profile.

Add these properties to application-test.properties. Note that these properties would be picked by the config file we will add in steps further down.

[python]
cassandra.hosts=localhost
cassandra.port=9152
cassandra.keyspace=yourkeyspace
[/python]

Step 5: Spring boot Java Config files

These are the main and test Cassandra config classes for this example –

Main Cassandra Config:

[java]
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.config.CassandraClusterFactoryBean;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.config.SchemaAction;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.config.java.AbstractCassandraConfiguration;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.repository.config.EnableCassandraRepositories;

@Configuration
@EnableCassandraRepositories("package.of.your.repositories")
public class CassandraConfig extends AbstractCassandraConfiguration {

@Value("${cassandra.hosts}")
String cassandraHosts;
@Value("${cassandra.port}")
String cassandraPort;
@Value("${cassandra.keyspace}")
String cassandraKeySpace;

@Override
public String getKeyspaceName() {
return cassandraKeySpace;
}

@Bean
public CassandraClusterFactoryBean cluster() {
CassandraClusterFactoryBean cluster =
new CassandraClusterFactoryBean();
cluster.setContactPoints(cassandraHosts);
cluster.setPort(Integer.parseInt(cassandraPort));
return cluster;
}

@Override
public SchemaAction getSchemaAction() {
return SchemaAction.CREATE_IF_NOT_EXISTS;
}
@Override
public String[] getEntityBasePackages() {
return new String[]{
"package.of.your.domains"};
}
}
[/java]

Test Cassandra Config :

[java]
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;

@Configuration
@ActiveProfiles("test")
@PropertySource( {"classpath:application.properties",
"classpath:application-test.properties"})
public class CassandraTestConfig extends CassandraConfig {

}
[/java]

Step 6 : Write the abstract test class

Write this abstract class which the repository test classes can inherit, and which will abstract out the Cassandra configurations :

[java]

import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
import com.mycompany.config.CassandraTestConfig;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.XSlf4j;
import org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException;
import org.cassandraunit.utils.EmbeddedCassandraServerHelper;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;

@Import(CassandraTestConfig.class)
@XSlf4j
public abstract class AbstractRepositoryTest {

@BeforeClass
public static void initCassandra() {
try {
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.load(AbstractRepositoryTest.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("application-test.properties"));
String cassandraHosts = prop.getProperty("cassandra.hosts");
String cassandraPort = prop.getProperty("cassandra.port");

EmbeddedCassandraServerHelper.startEmbeddedCassandra("another-cassandra.yaml", 20000);
log.info("Connect to embedded db");
Cluster cluster = Cluster.builder().addContactPoints(cassandraHosts).withPort(Integer.parseInt(cassandraPort)).build();
Session session = cluster.connect();

log.info("Initialize keyspace");
session.execute("create keyspace \"mykeyspace\" WITH replication = {‘class’:’SimpleStrategy’, ‘replication_factor’ : 3};");
session.execute("use \"mykeyspace\";");
} catch (TTransportException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

@Before
public void initTest() {
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
@AfterClass
public static void cleanCassandra() {
EmbeddedCassandraServerHelper.cleanEmbeddedCassandra();
}

}

[/java]

Step 7 :  Domain Object/Entity

[java]
import com.datastax.driver.core.utils.UUIDs;
import lombok.Data;
import org.springframework.cassandra.core.Ordering;
import org.springframework.cassandra.core.PrimaryKeyType;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.mapping.PrimaryKeyColumn;
import org.springframework.data.cassandra.mapping.Table;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.UUID;

@Data
@Table(value = "sampleEntity")
public class SampleEntity implements Serializable {
@PrimaryKeyColumn(name = "id", ordinal = 0, type = PrimaryKeyType.PARTITIONED, ordering = Ordering.DESCENDING)
private UUID id;
private String text;
}

[/java]

Step 8 :  Repository for ze entity

[java]

import org.springframework.data.cassandra.repository.CassandraRepository;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

public interface SampleEntityRepository extends CassandraRepository<SampleEntity> {
SampleEntity findById(UUID id);
}
[/java]

Step 9 : The repository test, gentlemen !

[java]

import com.datastax.driver.core.utils.UUIDs;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class SampleEntityRepoTest extends AbstractRepositoryTest {

@Autowired
SampleEntityRepository sampleEntityRepository;

@Test
public void saveOneTest() {
UUID id = UUIDs.timeBased();
SampleEntity sampleEntity = new SampleEntity();
sampleEntity.setId(id);
sampleEntity.setText("Hi");
sampleEntity = sampleEntityRepository.save(sampleEntity);
SampleEntity retrievedSampleEntity = sampleEntityRepository.findById(id);
Assert.assertEquals("Hi", sampleEntity.getText());
}
//other tests…
}

[/java]

Done.
Run the test class to confirm the setup works (or not – which case you are on your own).

How to show custom favicon in Vaadin UI ?

Add this custom Vaadin servlet to show a different favicon (other than the Vaadin default) in your UI application –

[java]

import com.vaadin.server.*;
import com.vaadin.spring.server.SpringVaadinServlet;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;

@Component("vaadinServlet")
public class CustomServlet extends SpringVaadinServlet {

@Override
protected void servletInitialized() throws ServletException {
super.servletInitialized();

getService().addSessionInitListener((SessionInitListener) event -> event.getSession().addBootstrapListener(new BootstrapListener() {

@Override
public void modifyBootstrapFragment(
BootstrapFragmentResponse response) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

@Override
public void modifyBootstrapPage(BootstrapPageResponse response) {
response.getDocument().head().
getElementsByAttributeValue("rel", "shortcut icon").attr("href", "./images/favicon.png");
response.getDocument().head()
.getElementsByAttributeValue("rel", "icon")
.attr("href", "./images/favicon.png");
}}
));

}
}

[/java]

Openfire does not listen to port 5222

Problem : Openfire server does not listen to port 5222.

Symptoms :

  1. netstat -tulpn | grep LISTEN
    • – will not show ports 5222 or 5223.
  2. tail -1000 /opt/openfire/logs/stderror.log
    • Will show these entries –
      • Error starting 5222: null
        Error starting 5223: null
        Error starting 5275: null
        Error starting 5276: null
        Error starting 5262: null
        Error starting 5263: null

Reason : Unknown – but related to OpenJDK.

Fix : Run OpenFire on Oracle JDK (v8 worked, didn’t test on v9)

Extract a selected polygon from an image to a new image file in Java

A reference code to extract a selected shape (this case polygon, could be another shape like Rectangle) –

[java]

BufferedImage in = ImageIO.read(new File(sourceFilePath));

Rectangle bounds = inputPolygon.getBounds(); // Polygon inputPolygon

BufferedImage extractor =new BufferedImage(bounds.width, bounds.height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

Graphics2D g = extractor.createGraphics();

polygon.translate(-bounds.x, -bounds.y);

g.setClip(polygon);

g.drawImage(in, -bounds.x, -bounds.y, null);

File extImageFile = new File(targetFilePath);

ImageIO.write(extractor, "png", extImageFile);

[/java]