I get the following error on compile:
An unexpected error occured caused by exception UnexpectedException:
While applying class play.classloading.enhancers.PropertiesEnhancer on controllers.xxxxx
I've narrowed it down to the following line in my controller:
String sender_alert_string = "Your message to " + app_user.fullname + " has failed";
With the line, I get the error, without the line, I don't.
I even tried splitting it up into separate strings and then combining them. Also tried .concat()
Why would an attempt to join strings (as I do in many other places) cause this?
EDIT: I'm beginning to think it has something to do with the #Entity tag just before declarations in my model files. Alternatives?
EDIT: app_user is of a basic model type User. constructor below
public User(String app_user_uuid, String fullname, String auth_token)
{
//timestamp
Calendar now_time = Application.get_now();
this.time_modified = now_time;
this.time_created = now_time;
//other
this.app_user_uuid = app_user_uuid;
this.fullname = fullname;
this.auth_token = auth_token;
this.timezone_offset = Application.default_timezone_offset;
}
Play enhances all Entity, models with a few things :
Add an ID column,
Adds getter/setters for public attributes,
It is probably one of those that is failing your application. When calling fullname are you sure it exists, that is is public and has no getter/setter method?
Related
I can't wrap my head around how should i get my data without much boilerplate.
The problem:
I have a database that i cannot alter. Which has multiple field of same type almost same for example i have text_en and text_fr (both are the same word in different language English and French) and i got + 71 same field but different languages.
What I need is something like
#Entitiy(tableName = "blabla")
class X {
private String textTarget;
private String textMain;
...
}
How should I do my Dao interface to get desired language and map into x class
what should work is to update entity ColumnInfo(name ="text_en") for example.
#Query("select :main , :target from phrases where :id ")
List<X> getPhrase(String main,String target);
usage : getPhrase("text_en","text_esp");
// for example returning object X with field main = "hello" and target " holla")
The above example return the following error:
error: Not sure how to convert a Cursor to this method's return type
What you put in #Query is an SQL-statement, you can actually test them in sqlite command line utility or any desktop software to verify their correctness. So if you want a translation to the desired language, it should look like this:
#Query("SELECT :main AS text_main, :target AS text_target FROM `phrases` WHERE id = :id)
List<Translation> getTranslationById(String firstLang, String secondLang, long id);
Where Translation should be something like this:
class Translation {
#ColumnInfo("text_main")
String main;
#ColumnInfo("text_target")
String target;
//setters, getters, etc
}
This class is used only as a return value from the method.
I have a method that takes in a JSON and takes out the data and distributes it to various strings so that they can be set in an entity and persisted. My example below is quite simple but for my actual code I have about 20+ fields
For example see
public Projects createProject(JsonObject jsonInst) {
Projects projectInst = new Projects();
String pId = jsonInst.get("proId").getAsString();
String pName = jsonInst.get("proName").getAsString();
String pStatus = jsonInst.get("proStatus").getAsString();
String pCustId = jsonInst.get("proCustId").getAsString();
String pStartDate = jsonInst.get("proStartDate").getAsString();
...
//Set the entity data
projectInst.setProjectId(pId);
projectInst.setProjectName(pName);
...
Notice if a varible dosent have a corrosponding entry in the Json this code will break with null pointer exception. Obviously I need to validate each parameter befopre calling .getAsString()
What is the best way to do this from a readability point of view I could create 2 varibles for each parameter and check and set for example.
if(jsonInst.get("proName")){
String pName = jsonInst.get("proName").getAsString();
}
Or should I wait for it to be set
if(!pName.isEmpty()){
projectInst.setName(pName)
}
...
Which of these do you think is the best parameter to use for preventing errors.
Is there a way to handle if something is set on a large scale so that I can reduce the amount of code I have to write before I use that varible?
You can create a method that will take field name as parameter and will return json value for that field :
private String getJSONData(String field,JsonObject json){
String data=null;
if(json.has(field)){
data=json.get(field).getAsString();
}
return data;
}
you can call this method for each of your field:
String pId = getJSONData("proId",jsonInst);
By this way you can not only escape NullPointerException, but also avoid code repetition.
In a small project I am working on I've gotten stuck. The user enters a command that may be "xp Speed", my command handler class finds that it wants to the XP value of the Speed Instance. In this case it needs to return the value of Skill.Speed.currentXP back to the user.
Small Part of the program:
//Example Instance initialization there is over 40 of these
Skill Speed = (new SkillSpeed(Skills.SKILL_SPEED,Skills.SKILL_SPEED_MODIFIER));
//Constructor for skill class
public Skill(String skillName, double modifier) {
this.name = skillName;
this.minLevel = Skills.MIN_SKILL_LEVEL;
this.Modifier = 1f;
this.currentLevel = (int)calculateLevel();
this.currentXP = 1;
this.leaderboard = getCurrentLeaderboard();
this.ID = getNextID();
}
Now, theres one way i could do this. by having a switch statement with case value being the string entered. However I'm sure having 40+ cases in one switch statement must be avoidable. The other theory I have had is creating a array of all current instances then iterating through that list, finding if the user inputted string is equal to the name of that instance, then returning the instance itself. This is what I came up with:
//method inside another classs that attempts to return the appropriate skill Instance
public Skill getSkillFromName(String Name) {
for(int i = 0; i < Skill.SkillArray.length; i++) {
final String SkillName = Skill.SkillArray[i].getName();
if(SkillName.equalsIgnoreCase(Name)) {
return Skill.SkillArray[i];
}
}
return null;
}
So here's what I need help with:
Creating a array of all initialized instances
Creating the method that will return Skill."InsertRandomInstanceDependingOnUserInputHere".currentXP
Fixing any problems you see in the getSkillFromName() method
Or perhaps I have overlooked a far easier way of doing this, and you can help me with that.
Thanks for the help,
BigDaveNz
If the names of the skills excatly match method names you might find the aswer at "How do I invoke a Java method when given the method name as a string?".
For finding instances by name you can still use Map's.
You can use a Map for this. E.g.:
Map<String, Skill> skills = new HashMap<String, Skill>();
To insert the values you put the values into the Map:
skills.put(skill.getName(), skill);
To retrieve your skill you can get the skill by name:
Skill skill = skills.get(name);
I have a model Item that has a name and description.I need to allow the user to search for a part of string in name or description.Instead of doing this using an sql query,I thought of using the search module that can be installed for playframework.
Looking at the documentation for search module ,I put these annotations to the model
#Entity
#Indexed
class Item{
#Field
public String name;
#Field
public String description;
public Date creationDate;
...
...
}
In application.conf ,I set
play.search.reindex=enabled
If I use an sql query like this
public static List<Item> getSearchResults(String kw){
List<Item> items = null;
if(kw!=null && kw.length()>0) {
String trimkw = kw.trim().toLowerCase();
String pattern = "%"+trimkw+"%";
String query="select distinct b from Item b where (lower(name) like :pattern or lower(description) like :pattern)";
items = Item.find(query).bind("pattern", pattern).fetch();
System.out.println("getSearchResults():: items="+items.size());
}
return items;
}
This works properly,and handles the cases where input string is uppercase or lowercase etc.Also it will get results for partial strings ..
For example ,
I have items JavaRing ,Android
when the kw="JAvA"
the search returns a list containing JavaRing
I tried using Search module like this
import play.modules.search.Search;
import play.modules.search.Query;
...
String qstr = "name:"+trimkw+" OR description:"+trimkw;
System.out.println("query string="+qstr);
Query q = Search.search(qstr, Item.class);
items = q.fetch();
System.out.println("items="+items.size());
But this returns an empty list for the same keyword as I used in the previous case.
keyword = "JAvA"
query string=name:java OR description:java
items=0
Is there something wrong with the way I have coded the search string?
Search module is based on Lucene. By default, Lucene searches for whole words. You didn't find anything because there isn't whole word 'java' in your fields.
Using wildcards, for instance name:java* OR description:java* you'll fit your needs. You can find more examples there
Updated link is http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_2/queryparsersyntax.html
In this case, if the keyword is to be found anywhere, I assume string pattern needs to be modified from % to *.
ie. String pattern = trimkw+"*";
The rest of the code could remain the same.
I've created simple annotation in Java
#Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
#Target(ElementType.FIELD)
public #interface Column {
String columnName();
}
and class
public class Table {
#Column(columnName = "id")
private int colId;
#Column(columnName = "name")
private String colName;
private int noAnnotationHere;
public Table(int colId, String colName, int noAnnotationHere) {
this.colId = colId;
this.colName = colName;
this.noAnnotationHere = noAnnotationHere;
}
}
I need to iterate over all fields, that are annotated with Column and get name and value of field and annotation. But I've got problem with getting value of each field, since all of them are of different data type.
Is there anything that would return collection of fields that have certain annotation?
I managed to do it with this code, but I don't think that reflection is good way to solve it.
Table table = new Table(1, "test", 2);
for (Field field : table.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) {
Column col;
// check if field has annotation
if ((col = field.getAnnotation(Column.class)) != null) {
String log = "colname: " + col.columnName() + "\n";
log += "field name: " + field.getName() + "\n\n";
// here i don't know how to get value of field, since all get methods
// are type specific
System.out.println(log);
}
}
Do I have to wrap every field in object, which would implement method like getValue(), or is there some better way around this? Basicly all I need is string representation of each field that is annotated.
edit: yep field.get(table) works, but only for public fields, is there any way how to do this even for private fields? Or do I have to make getter and somehow invoke it?
Every object should has toString() defined. (And you can override this for each class to get a more meaningful representation).
So you where your "// here I don't know" comment is, you could have:
Object value = field.get(table);
// gets the value of this field for the instance 'table'
log += "value: " + value + "\n";
// implicitly uses toString for you
// or will put 'null' if the object is null
Reflection is exactly the way to solve it. Finding out things about types and their members at execution time is pretty much the definition of reflection! The way you've done it looks fine to me.
To find the value of the field, use field.get(table)
Reflection is exactly the way to look at annotations. They are a form of "metadata" attached to the class or method, and Java annotations were designed to be examined that way.
Reflection is one way to process the object (probably the only way if the fields are private and don't have any kind of accessor method). You'll need to look at Field.setAccessible and perhaps Field.getType.
Another approach is to generate another class for enumerating the annotated fields using a compile-time annotation processor. This requires a com.sun API in Java 5, but support is better in the Java 6 JDK (IDEs like Eclipse may require special project configuration).