Missing @EntityScan annotation in Spring Data Neo4j

July 20, 2020
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Not including the annotation and specifying the correct packages in your Spring Data Neo4j application can cause the following error: Yes…

Mapping a path query in Spring Data Neo4j

July 19, 2020
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Spring data does a lot to help you focus on writing your cypher queries while it handles mapping the results for you. However, when your…

Java friendly Kotlin - default arguments

June 25, 2020
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Kotlin functions and constructors can define default arguments, allowing calls to them to skip any argument that has a default value. This…

Transaction savepoints in Spring JDBC

June 14, 2020
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Savepoints allow you to create markers within a transaction which you can rollback to, without preventing the transaction from being…

Cancelling coroutines

May 11, 2020
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Sooner or later, you will need to cancel a coroutine that you started. Let’s look at how you can do just that. How to cancel a job One of…

Waiting for coroutines

April 26, 2020
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Coroutines allow you to execute tasks asynchronously without blocking the calling thread, such as the main thread. Great, but sometimes you…

Launching your coroutine knowledge

April 17, 2020
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Coroutines are essentially lightweight threads that allow your applications to squeeze more juice out of the machines they are running on…

Java friendly Kotlin - static functions

March 18, 2020
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In this post, we will look at writing static functions in Kotlin that treat Java callers as first-class citizens. Recap There are three ways…

Defined by failure - How failure fueled my improvement

February 27, 2020
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I am going to go with a more personal blog post today. This is something that I have wanted to write for several years now. Better late than…

Calling Java Functional Interfaces from Kotlin

February 10, 2020
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Basics Below is a Functional Interface defined in Java: Note, that an interface does not need to be annotated with to be treated as one. In…