JCache Expiry Policy Example

This post explains about JCache’s Expiry policy with an example. Cache’s Expiry policy is used to inform the caching provider when to remove an entry. The below code uses JCache’s CreatedExpiryPolicy as an example. CreatedExpiryPolicy is used to inform the cache provider to remove the entry after a specified time since the entry’s addition to…… Continue reading JCache Expiry Policy Example

Reading json data in non-streaming way (object model)

We can read a json file and create an object model of it, using the ObjectMapper’s readTree api. ObjectMapper class is responsible for parsing the json file and create appropriate java objects. It uses Jackson’s parsing feature internally for reading the json file. They are many overloaded method of readTree available in ObjectMapper. In this…… Continue reading Reading json data in non-streaming way (object model)

Creating a file archiver in zip format

This post explains how to create file archiver in WinZip format. WinZip is a file archiver and compression tool. Whenever a zip file is created by default the file is compressed and archived together in a single file. We can change the default behaviour (i.e., compression) by setting the level property in ZipOutputStream. The below…… Continue reading Creating a file archiver in zip format

Creating a zip file of a folder with CRC32 checksum

This post explains how to create a zip file of a folder (also containing sub folders) with CRC32 checksum. The below code is similar to the previous post “Creating zip file of a folder” with minor change in main method. The main method code snippet from the previous post as shown below File folder =…… Continue reading Creating a zip file of a folder with CRC32 checksum

Printing json data in a formatted way

This post explains how to print json data in a properly formatted way, whether the destination is console, file etc. For example when the below code prints the json data to a file, the output will be as shown below Initial Code package package11; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.IOException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactory; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator; public…… Continue reading Printing json data in a formatted way

Handling json deserialization error

This post explains how to handle errors generated while deserializing the json file. This can be achieved by implementing an interface “DeserializationProblemHandler” provided by jackson framework as shown below UnMarshallingErrorHandler package package1; import java.io.IOException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializationProblemHandler; public class UnMarshallingErrorHandler extends DeserializationProblemHandler { @Override public boolean handleUnknownProperty(DeserializationContext ctxt,…… Continue reading Handling json deserialization error