JAX-RS Server API Snippets

Because a lot of my current projects are using JAX-RS in different versions I’d like to write down and share some frequently used snippets for implementing RESTful web-services with the JAX-RS specification here. Using RegEx in Path Expressions Sometimes we need to extract multiple parameters from a path expression e.g. in the following example where year, month and day are fragments if the path. @GET @Path("/orders/{year:\\d{4}}-{month:\\d{2}}-{day:\\d{2}}") @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN) public Response getOrders(@PathParam("year") final int year, @PathParam("month") final int month, @PathParam("day") final int day) { return Response.ok("Year: " + year + ", month: " + month + ", day: " + day).build(); } ...

September 28, 2014 · 5 min · 924 words · Micha Kops

Postgres Snippets

Get size of a table SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('schemaname.tablename')); Select unique combination of fields / tuples SELECT DISTINCT ON(field1, field2) field1, field2 FROM thetable Select rows where a combination of fields is not unique SELECT columnA, columnB, count(*) AS count FROM thetable GROUP BY columnA, columnB HAVING count(*) > 1 Search for rows with array containing value Assuming, the field appointments has the type date[] SELECT * FROM mtable WHERE appointments @> ARRAY['2023-09-19'::date] ...

March 1, 2010 · 8 min · 1655 words · Micha Kops

Vim Snippets

Vim Plugin Manager Installation Download it from its GitHub repository or the risky but easy way using curl: curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim Adding Plugins Add a plugin section to the .vimrc: .vimrc call plug#begin() " The default plugin directory will be as follows: " - Vim (Linux/macOS): '~/.vim/plugged' " - Vim (Windows): '~/vimfiles/plugged' " - Neovim (Linux/macOS/Windows): stdpath('data') . '/plugged' " You can specify a custom plugin directory by passing it as the argument " - e.g. `call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')` " - Avoid using standard Vim directory names like 'plugin' " Make sure you use single quotes " Gruvbox Theme Plug 'sainnhe/gruvbox-material' " Initialize plugin system " - Automatically executes `filetype plugin indent on` and `syntax enable`. call plug#end() " You can revert the settings after the call like so: " filetype indent off " Disable file-type-specific indentation " syntax off " Disable syntax highlighting ...

March 1, 2010 · 3 min · 568 words · Micha Kops