akka-http

Mocking Methods for Testing Akka Http Routes

akka-http, Scala

Hey folks, in this blog I am going to explain how to write unit test cases for the routes in Akka Http. First and foremost the test cases should not hit our backend logic, remember that we are only testing our routes, routes basically form the controller layer in our application. They control the request/response cycle. They tell that which business logic should respond to Continue Reading

Authentication in Akka-Http

Akka, akka-http, Scala

Hi All, In this blog, I will try to explain what is Authentication and why we need this and how you can do authentication in Akka HTTP What is Authentication:- Authentication is the process of establishing a known identity for the user, whereby ‘identity’ is defined in the context of the application. This may be done with a username/password combination, a cookie, a pre-defined IP or Continue Reading

Akka http with json4s

Akka, akka-http, akka-streams, Future, github, Scala, scalatest, Tutorial

Akka Http uses the spray-json library for JSON support. But a few days back while working on a project which was using the json4s library for marshalling/unmarshalling, I got stuck during parsing of JSON request and extracting that parsed values into my target Scala data model.

Do you know Akka-HTTP Cache?

Akka, akka-http, Architecture, Functional Programming, Non-Blocking, Reactive Application, Scala, Tutorial, Web Application, Web Services, Web Standard,

Today we are to going to talk about a very important aspect of reactive web applications development. It’s not from the alien world, we always talk about it but we rarely want to deal with it. It’s Cache. In today’s mammoth scalable architecture, we are mostly surrounded by big design issues and somewhere here and there we neglect benefits of using a very useful concept Continue Reading

Lagom 1.4: What’s new?

Akka, akka-http, Java, Microservices, Play 2.4.X, Play Framework

Lagom is a reactive microservice framework, which is increasingly becoming the go-to solution for building a microservice-based architecture for industry-wide services. In case you still haven’t heard of it, this blog post will not only familiarize you with the idea behind Lagom but will also walk you through some history of Lagom since its 1.0 launch, what’s new in the latest stable release, and some Continue Reading

Store Semantic Web Triples into Cassandra

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The semantic web is the next level of  Web Searching where data is more important and it should be well defined. The semantic web is needed for making the web search more intelligent and intuitive to get the user’s requirement. You all can find some interesting point on the Semantic Web here. Triples is an atomic entity in RDF. It is composed of subject-predicate-object. It Continue Reading

Akka HTTP Routing

Akka, akka-http, Scala

In this blog, I try to describe some basic routes of Akka-HTTP, redirection of the route and how to handle extra parameters that come in route. so before writing the routes, you have to set the environment for it. implicit val system = ActorSystem(“my-system”) implicit val materializer = ActorMaterializer() implicit val executionContext = system.dispatcher These are the variables that are you need to define provisionally Continue Reading

Getting Started Cockroach with Scala: An Introduction

Akka, akka-http, Database, Scala, Slick

Today we are going to discuss that how can we use the Scala with the Cockroach DB? As we all know that Cockroach DB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a transactional and consistent key-value store and now we are going to use it with the Scala. But before starting the journey, To those who have caught the train late,😉 this is Continue Reading

Routing DSL in Akka HTTP

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In this blog we’ll be discussing about the Routing DSl provided by Akka HTTP High level Server Side API. Akka HTTP provides a very flexible “Routing DSL” for elegantly defining RESTful web services. It picks up where the low-level API leaves off and offers much of the higher level functionality of typical web servers or frameworks, like deconstruction of URIs, content negotiation or static content serving. Continue Reading

Akka HTTP vs Other REST API Tools

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Hi Folks ! Lately there have been a lot of tools that allow us to build rest APIs like the following : Akka Http Play Scalatra http4s Finch Spray In my blog today, I will be discussing Akka Http and its counterparts(competitors) in terms of their advantages, disadvantages, performance and use cases. Let us begin comparsion of Akka-Http with Scalatra. Scalatra is a thread based,it Continue Reading

Solr With Scala : Basic Introduction to Embedded Solr

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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

Solr With Scala: Rest End Points with AKKA HTTP

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Hello Folks, Today we will discuss about Solr, Scala with Akka-HTTP. We will create rest-endpoints and try to connect with Solr server with them. The basic idea behind using Akka-HTTP for creating Rest end points is modules implement a full server and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream. We can customize these routes according to our use case. We will talk step Continue Reading

Neo4j With Scala: Rest End Points with AKKA HTTP

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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

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