Simple Spring Boot - POST
April 02, 2017A very quick and little tutorial into sending a POST request to a Rest Controller in Spring Boot. Have a look at Spring’s starter guide if…
Building with the Builder Pattern
April 01, 2017If you have ever looked at a long constructor and got confused about the order that input values need to be added then I am here to help…
Testing Data Transfer Objects and Rest Controllers in Spring Boot
March 26, 2017In this post I will cover some tests that can be run to ensure that your DTOs (Data Transfer Objects) are being serialized and deserialized…
Returning Data Transfer Objects from a Rest Controller in Spring Boot
March 19, 2017In this post I will cover returning a DTO (Data Transfer Object) from a Rest Controller in Spring Boot. Returning data from a REST call in a…
Passing Data Transfer Objects with GET in Spring Boot
March 11, 2017GET requests should be used to pass data to a Rest Controller when the state of the data is not being changed. This is a little tutorial on…
Getting started with JUnitParams
March 04, 2017Do you write enough tests? Even if the answer is yes there might be some scenarios where you could add a few more to cover extra…
Writing your F.I.R.S.T unit tests
March 04, 2017Unit tests are required to test singular sections of code. In java this would normally be a class. They provide confidence to programmers…
Is this the correct object?
March 02, 2017This is something I came across at work that wasn’t working as I expected. After a little playing around it seemed pretty obvious but even…
Motivation and learning
February 27, 2017Something strange happened to me a few months ago where I found this urge that I could be better myself. It all started with one of my…
Stopping JavaFX Context Menus from auto hiding
February 18, 2017This is a post that I wanted to write as it was a problem I ran into at my previous job probably around this time last year. I was doing…