Object Relational Mapping frameworks, such as Hibernate, very often provide a way to automatically generate the database schema based on persistent classes. While it is very convenient as a proof of concept or for very simple applications, it is not a production ready approach. In reality you have to write scripts to version your schema … Continue reading "Automated validation of DB schema migrations"
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Dealing with Value Objects in REST API with Jackson
Dealing with serialization and deserialization of ValueObjects with Jackson seems to be straightforward, right? It’s very common to expose REST API in our applications and JSON format is one of the most frequently used ones. How do we usually do it?
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Flexible RESTful search is very often a must-have for a web application. While the concept is easy and not new, it is very often implemented in a repetitive and tedious way. In this post I will demonstrate an effective way of implementing search API with Spring Data and Specification Argument Resolver. Naive approach With Spring … Continue reading "Effective RESTful search API in Spring"
Read MoreBuilder pattern revisited
The idea behind builder pattern is actually quite simple – it should help you to build your objects. But let me show you today why it is so important to use and how we can adjust it with some implementation tricks to achieve different goals and coding styles.
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