Error handling in Scala: What, where and how?
Reading Time: 5 minutes error handling, monadic, functional erorr handling
ScalaTest – How to Disable Test Cases using Tagging
Reading Time: 3 minutes Scala Test – How to disable Test Cases using Tagging Tagging your tests ScalaTest allows you to define some test categories, to “tag” tests as belonging to those categories, and filter tests to run based on their tags. For example, you could tag some tests as being slow and chose to exclude the slow tests during some runs, or say you have some intergration test Continue Reading
Unit Testing Of Kafka
Reading Time: 2 minutes Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system and a robust queue that can handle a high volume of data and enables you to pass messages from one end-point to another. Generally, data is published to topic via Producer API and Consumers API consume data from subscribed topics. In this blog, we will see how to do unit testing of kafka. Unit testing your Kafka Continue Reading
Solr With Scala : Basic Introduction to Embedded Solr
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hello Folks, As we discussed earlier Solr with Scala and AkkaHttp in our last blog we have used Solr as a service and tried to hit solr service with the AkkaHttp and spray routes. Here is the link for the Recap. When we want to do testing for those methods which are creating connection with the remote solr server, have to use Embedded Solr for Continue Reading
Neo4j With Scala: Rest End Points with AKKA HTTP
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello Folks, Welcome back again in the series of Neo4j with Scala . Let’s start our journey again. But before starting our journey here is the links for recap who join late us in the journey : Getting Started Neo4j with Scala : An Introduction Neo4j with Scala: Defining User Defined Procedures and APOC Neo4j with Scala: Migrate Data From Other Database to Neo4j Neo4j Continue Reading
Blending Cucumber, Cassandra and Akka-Http
Reading Time: 2 minutes Folks, Knoldus has always pioneered the deep diving into the best ways to use cutting edge technologies. In the past few days, one of our team carried this deed by integrating Cucumber with Akka-Http, Cassandra and of course, Scala. In this blog, we reach out to you to explain and show how this can be done. Cucumber Cucumber is for Behavior Driven Design (BDD). The Continue Reading
Cassandra with Spark 2.0 : Building Rest API !
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this tutorial , we will be demonstrating how to make a REST service in Spark using Akka-http as a side-kick 😉 and Cassandra as the data store. We have seen the power of Spark earlier and when it is combined with Cassandra in a right way it becomes even more powerful. Earlier we have seen how to build Rest Api on Spark and Couchbase Continue Reading
Integrate JWT with Akka HTTP
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this article we will discuss about , how to implement authentication or authorization in Akka HTTP routes using JWT . As we know Akka HTTP is full implementation of server and client side HTTP stack on top Akka actor and Akka stream . Now Let’s we talk about JWT. what is JWT ? JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines Continue Reading
Mocking Mail API in Scala
Reading Time: 2 minutes Few days ago I was working on a Mailing API of my project and used javax-mail API but encountered the problem of how to write unit test cases for that without actually mocking the mail. I searched for it but was unable to find a proper documentation about mocking a mailing service. I tried few methods but some were confusing and some were really complex. Then I Continue Reading
Data Driven Test Automation with Apache POI (Part-1)
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Data Driven Test Automation? To test the functionality of an application it is requires to test with multiple input values. Data driven test automation allows to create test scripts where test data or input/output values are read from an external data files instead of using hard code each time the test run. Data driven test framework allows user to separate their data to Continue Reading
Best Practices for Using Slick on Production
Reading Time: 5 minutes Slick is most popular library for relational database access in Scala ecosystem. When we are going to use Slick for production , then some questions arise like where should the mapping tables be defined and how to join with other tables, how to write unit tests. Apart from this there is lack of clarity on the design guidelines. In this blog post , I am Continue Reading