In one of the previous posts, I described how to have configurations per environment and why it a bad idea to build your jar for every environment. Also we saw how to read configuration values from property sources. Many times you might not be in a position to enumerate your…
Effective Java with Groovy - How Language can Influence Good Practices from Naresha K…
Micronaut provides io.micronaut.context.annotation.Value for injecting value from the property source into a variable. Spring framework also provides a similar annotation. Can you spot the mistake in the below code? package com.nareshak; import io.micronaut.context.annotation.Value; import io.micronaut.http.MediaType; import io.micronaut.…
In my previous post I described the anti-pattern of rebuilding your artifacts for every environment and explained why it is a bad idea. I also mentioned that modern frameworks support environment specific out of the box. In this post let's see this in action using Micronaut. I will be using…
I have heard several times developer telling me how they build their artifacts before deploying to each of their environment. Yes, they build a jar for dev and instead of promoting the same jar to their acceptance testing environment, they rebuild the jar specifically for their UAT environment. Here is…
Let's start by creating a service. Take a look at this post if you would like to know how to create one. Now that we have a Java service with a controller, let's go ahead and modify the index() method of the controller to return a greeting message. The controller…
DetailsI have had the opportunity to work with several developers having a wide range of experience during my coaching engagements. Some of them were happily ignoring the features available in modern versions of the language and busy writing more code and fixing bugs, while others wanted to improve their skills…
Micronaut supports Java, Groovy and Kotlin languages. In this post let's explore creating a service using Groovy language and Spock testing framework. If you don't have the Micronaut CLI installed, this post has the details of how to get it installed. 1.1.0 is the latest version of Micronaut…
When I googled for 'power assert', the first result found was the JavaScript library power assert. The second link contains an interview with the author of this library. He acknowledges the inspirations from Groovy ecosystem. Borrowing good ideas from another language/ ecosystem has had positive influence on many languages. Let's…
Micronaut 1.1.0.RC2 is the latest version as of writing this post. JUnit 5 is now the default test framework for Java projects. Following are the dependencies from the service we created using Micronaut 1.0.5 dependencies { annotationProcessor "io.micronaut:micronaut-inject-java" annotationProcessor "io.micronaut:micronaut-validation" compile "io.…
