I have been trying several frameworks to test my pieces of software. The choice was difficult to make between cucumber-js, cucumber-java or karate.All of them need a complex runtime. Either by installing a node_modules packages directory with a lot of dependencies, or by installing them in a .m2/repository directory. I was wondering myself : Is… Read More »
Java tip : “add suffix if not present”
Found that when I was trying to force the suffix of a xpath query to be /text() query.replaceFirst("(.*)(?<!/text\\(\\))$", "$1/text()") appends /text() if not the case already. Read More »
Gatsby : How about a … github hosted site ?
If you are not new to publishing content on the web, you certainly know that you were presented several options in the past :- install wordpress then customize the themes as much as possible, install a database and use the editor- setup a blogpost, use a built in theme, then write posts- install a content… Read More »
My Chocolate Cake recipe
Here is a chocolate cake recipe. Please note that this is not only a recipe, but it is code too... You can compile that in Kotlin successfully and you can imagine a cookbook site using this kind of implementation. fun main(args: Array<String>) { val chocolateCake = `recipe consisting of` { - (7 `ounces of` "black… Read More »
kotlin live
If you are among these ones : You want to practice some code but you don't want to open an IDE You are presenting some slides and you don't want to switch between the deck and the editor You are just beginning to write some code and you don't want to install the big SDK… Read More »
Write an unit test without mocking the rest template
How would you call a JUnit test that calls an external service ? -> An integration test, why not... How about a JUnit test that replaces the implementation of the repository layer by a mock ? -> An unit test, fine. Would you appreciate to write an unit test that simulates the integration without the… Read More »
Now a member of the storybook team
Hello, unfortunately not much to write in this blog, because more involved in team-owned projects rather than in self-driven projects. I have joined forces with the storybook team to help them (at my scale) to release a new version (storybook 4) supporting a wide range of View libraries. Storybook is to the UI developer what… Read More »
JAXB unmarshalling ? Sax reader ? What about… nothing.
Here is a very tiny and naive xml parser made in kotlin. One function, one input (string), one output (map). Simple, and lightweight (no library). /]+)[^>]*>") val OPENING_CLOSING_TAG = Regex("^< ([^ >/]+)[^>]*/>") val CLOSING_TAG = Regex("^]+)>") val ATTRS = Regex("([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z-0-9]*)=\"([^\"]*)\"") val root = mutableMapOf() val deque = ArrayDeque(listOf(root)) val attrSetFunc = {text: String, node: MutableMap… Read More »
Honey, I shrunk the React app
Size does matter sometimes. Here is the most obvious reason why : a site that takes too long to load ends up with an error on a device. Or worse, your visitor may become impatient and go to your competitor. Problem is when you are building your application and you see a webpack log like… Read More »
Kotlin js : hack to get the values of an unknown enum
Kotlin js is really experimental and does not allow a lot of things when it comes to reflect apis : actually you can only read the class name or cast the value into a dynamic (javascript-like) object. Ever wondered how to do call myEnum.values() in js without knowing the type ? Not permitted so far,… Read More »