August 2019 - CodeByAkram

What do you mean by Aspect, Join Point, Advice?


What’s the difference between @Component, @Controller, @Repository & @Service annotations in Spring?

What do you mean by Aspect, Join Point, Advice?

Pointcut: Pointcut are expressions that is matched with join points to determine whether advice needs to be executed or not. Pointcut uses different kinds of expressions that are matched with the join points and Spring framework uses the AspectJ pointcut expression language.
AOP Advice Types
Before Advice: These advices run before the execution of join point methods. Use @Before annotation to mark an advice type as Before advice.
After (finally) Advice: An advice that gets executed after the join point method finishes executing, whether normally or by throwing an exception. We can create after advice using @After annotation.
After Returning Advice: Sometimes we want advice methods to execute only if the join point method executes normally. We can use @AfterReturning annotation to mark a method as after returning advice.
After Throwing Advice: This advice gets executed only when join point method throws exception, we can use it to rollback the transaction declaratively. We use @AfterThrowing annotation for this type of advice.
Around Advice: This is the most important and powerful advice. This advice surrounds the join point method and we can also choose whether to execute the join point method or not. We can write advice code that gets executed before and after the execution of the join point method. It is the responsibility of around advice to invoke the join point method and return values if the method is returning something. We use @Around annotation to create around advice methods.

What’s the difference between @Component, @Controller, @Repository & @Service annotations in Spring?


Spring Annotations, Codebyakram


Spring 2.5 introduces further stereotype annotations: @Component@Service, and @Controller@Component is a generic stereotype for any Spring-managed component. @Repository@Service, and @Controller are specializations of @Component for more specific use cases, for example, in the persistence, service, and presentation layers, respectively.

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Therefore, you can annotate your component classes with @Component, but by annotating them with @Repository@Service, or @Controller instead, your classes are more properly suited for processing by tools or associating with aspects. For example, these stereotype annotations make ideal targets for pointcuts.

Thus, if you are choosing between using @Component or @Service for your service layer, @Service is clearly the better choice. Similarly, as stated above, @Repository is already supported as a marker for automatic exception translation in your persistence layer.



Differentiate between constructor injection and setter injection

Partial Dependency

In Setter Injection, partial dependency is possible, means if we have 4 dependencies as mentioned below,

Differentiate between constructor injection and setter injection, codebyakram


Then it is not necessary to inject all values if we are using setter injection.

But in Constructor Injection, partial dependency is not possible because we are calling the constructor of that class.

Overriding

Constructor Injection can not override the setter injected properties but Setter injection can override the constructor injected properties.

Changes

Setter injection makes bean class object as mutable but constructor injection makes bean class object as immutable. 

Number of dependencies

If we have dependencies for example 17 in our bean class then, in this case setter injection is not recommended as we need to write almost 17 setters right, bean length will increase.

In this case, Constructor injection is highly recommended, as we can inject all the dependencies with in 3 to 4 lines by calling one constructor.


Java 8 Lambda Comparator

Lets se how we can sort the object by using java 8 lambda comparator. For this let take a Employee class.

Java 8 Lambda Comparator, codebyakram

public class Employee {
    private String name;
    private int salary;
 
    // standard constructors, getters/setters, equals and hashcode
}

1. Classic sort (without lambda)

Comparator< Employee > bySalary = new Comparator< Employee >() {
  @Override
  public int compare(Employee o1, Employee o2) {
   return o1.getSalary().compareTo(o2.getSalary());
  }
 };
2. Lambda expression equivalent.

 Comparator< Employee > bySalary = 
  (Employee o1, Employee o2)->o1.getSalary().compareTo(o2.getSalary());

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How to get keys and values from Map in Java?

As we know, map is based on key-value pair associations, so interviewer can ask you this question if you are a beginner or having less than 3 years of experience.

So lets see how we can the key and values from a Map?

How to get keys and values from Map, codebyakram


In Java we have and Map.Entry method that returns a collection-view of map.


Map< string string=""> map = new HashMap<>();

 // Get keys and values
 for (Map.Entry< string string=""> entry : map.entrySet()) {
  String k = entry.getKey();
  String v = entry.getValue();
  System.out.println("Key: " + k + ", Value: " + v);
 }

 // In Java 8 we can use for each
 map.forEach((k, v) -> {
  System.out.println("Key: " + k + ", Value: " + v);
 });

How to set connection timeout for RestTemplate in spring?

How to set connection timeout for RestTemplate in spring? codebyakram

We can set the timeout for RestTemplate by doing some custom configuration for RestTemplate.

First you need to create a class named as HttpClientConfig in this class we configure HttpClient because RestTemplate internally uses the HttpClient.


package com.codebyakram;

import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

@Configuration
public class HttpClientConfig {

 public static final Logger LOGGER = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(HttpClientConfig.class.getName());
 // Determines the timeout in milliseconds until a connection is established.
 private static final int CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 30000;

 // The timeout when requesting a connection from the connection manager.
 
 private int REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 10000;
 
 @Bean
 public CloseableHttpClient httpClient() {
  RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom().setConnectionRequestTimeout(REQUEST_TIMEOUT).build();
  return HttpClients.custom().setDefaultRequestConfig(requestConfig).build();
 }
}

Here in this class we setting HttpClient in RestTemplate

package com.codebyakram;

import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory;
import org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler;
import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskScheduler;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

@Configuration
public class RestTemplateConfig {

 @Autowired
 CloseableHttpClient httpClient;


 @Bean
 public RestTemplate restTemplate() {
  RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(clientHttpRequestFactory());
  return restTemplate;
 }

 @Bean
 public HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory clientHttpRequestFactory() {
  HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory clientHttpRequestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
  clientHttpRequestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);
  return clientHttpRequestFactory;
 }

 @Bean
 public TaskScheduler taskScheduler() {
  ThreadPoolTaskScheduler scheduler = new ThreadPoolTaskScheduler();
  scheduler.setThreadNamePrefix("poolScheduler");
  scheduler.setPoolSize(50);
  return scheduler;
 }
}

So now we are done with the cofiguration of request timeout for RestTemplate.

How to Sort a Stack using Merge Sort?

Interviewer may ask you this question if you have more than 3 years of experience in java development. So lets have a look, how to sort a stack using merge sort?

Lets see sample input and output for better understanding:

How to Sort a Stack using Merge Sort? codebyakram


Algorithm
For this we will follow these below two steps,
1. Break the stack into two parts by using two temporary stack.

2. When only one element remains on a Stack, Merge it.

Lets have a look on the program,


package com.codebyakram;
 
import java.util.Stack;
 
public class SortStack {
 
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        Stack stack = new Stack();
        stack.push(5);
        stack.push(9);
        stack.push(4);
        stack.push(1);
        stack.push(2);
        stack.push(-1);

 
        sort(stack);
 
        System.out.println(stack);
    }
 
    private static void sort(Stack stack) {
        Stack s1 = new Stack();
        Stack s2 = new Stack();
 
        while (stack.size() != 0) {
            if (stack.size() % 2 == 0) {
                s1.push(stack.pop());
            } else {
                s2.push(stack.pop());
            }
        }
 
        if (s1.size() > 1) {
            sort(s1);
        }
 
        if (s2.size() > 1) {
            sort(s2);
        }
 
        merge(s1, s2, stack);
    }
 
    private static void merge(Stack s1, Stack s2, Stack stack) {
        Stack mergedStack = new Stack();
        while (!s1.isEmpty() && !s2.isEmpty()) {
            if ((Integer) s1.peek() < (Integer) s2.peek()) {
                mergedStack.push(s2.pop());
            } else {
                mergedStack.push(s1.pop());
            }
        }
 
        while (!s1.isEmpty()) {
            mergedStack.push(s1.pop());
        }
 
        while (!s2.isEmpty()) {
            mergedStack.push(s2.pop());
        }
 
        while (!mergedStack.isEmpty()) {
            stack.push(mergedStack.pop());
        }
    }
}