Overview In Java functional programming, Consumers are incredibly versatile and valuable, particularly when it comes to performing actions on data without returning values. Why use Consumers? Here are the main reasons using Consumers is beneficial to your code: Simplifying Side Effects You may hear or read somewhere that in functional programming, side effects should be … Read more
Overview The predicate interfaces in the java.util.function package return a boolean given one or some arguments. The primary purpose of the Predicate interface is to simplify the task of evaluating conditions or tests within your Java applications. It abstracts the process of writing conditional statements and allows you to represent complex conditions as reusable, composable … Read more
Overview Java BinaryOperator is a functional interface extending BiFunction. As you may recall, BiFunction has one abstract method called apply that accepts two arguments and returns a result. A BinaryOperator is a special case of a BiFuncion where the types of the arguments and the return value are the same. Thus, this is the signature … Read more
Overview Hashtable and HashMap are common data structures to store key-value data in your Java application. While having similarities, there are some crucial differences you need to know as a Java developer. Let’s discuss the differences between these two data structures in this post. Hashtable is thread-safe, HashMap is not Consider the following code using … Read more
Overview While preparing for the OCP 17 exam, I created some notes to aid my learning. This is the first of many posts in this series. I hope you find it helpful. Java Exception Handling Cheat Sheet The Throwable family Checked vs. unchecked exceptions Overriding methods with declared exceptions Example RuntimeException Checked exceptions Error Exception … Read more
Overview Recently, for the first time, I encounter a need to use an interface in @RequestBody in my Spring Boot app. Here is the diagram: This is the request that contains one IAudioContent However, when I sent a request to create a question group with TTSSingleRequest in JSON format for example, I got the following … Read more