In my recent project, I want to implement permission based framework with spring security grails plugin. What does permission based framework mean? We can create a ROLE at run time based on the permission given to the user. Most of the times, we use Spring security in a way where we pre-define the roles to […]
IntelliJ IDEA provides a handy debugger for grails, which simplifies debugging. Many people try avoiding using this awesome feature just because, either, they don’t want to leave the old habit of using printlns or they complain about the performance issue, and bla bla bla. As per my observation, there is no performance difference between run-app […]
I always wanted to test the parameters being passed in the forward method in a controller in my unit tests. Suppose we have any controller like: [java] class DemoController { def anyAction() { forward(controller: “demo”, action: “test”, params: [param1: “1”]) } } [/java] to test this forward action, we first need to mock the forward […]
Hi, Before writing this blog, I would first like to make you familiar with one quote “Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send”. Yes that’s what HTTP robustness protocol states. Scenario : We have a use case where our server need to read XML files that are large containing 400 […]
While working on my current application, I had to import a large database using mysql from a sql dump. The size of the sql dump was around 1.5 GB and hence the import was taking long time. I just felt the need of some tool that could help me check the progress of the import. […]
In my current web application, I had to integrate login functionality via Instagram. To do so, I had to go through the following steps: 1. First you have to register your application using this link. In order to register your application, you need to have an Instagram account which can be done through Instagram’s mobile […]
In my current grails application, we have started using the AngularJS after realizing that the GSP template engine is a bit slow. Now, I realize how efficient AngularJS can be, and think of sharing my first impressions while using AngularJS with grails app. Following are some of the reasons, that I find, makes AngularJS stands out: The aim […]
In my project on Angular.js I came across a use case where I needed to paginate the HTML tables . DataTable jQuery plugin is a perfect choice in order to accomplish this task. Let us take a simple example to illustrate the use of dataTable plugin: [js] <html> <head> <style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.dataTables/1.9.4/css/jquery.dataTables.css"> </style> […]
I never had to worry about whether the classes loaded in our application are in the same class loader or different, until I was stuck with the weird class not found exception. We were using a third party tool (Snowbound’s DocViewer) which provided around 10 jar files, which worked well for except one functionality which […]
