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Recently, we had a requirement where secure URLs were to be made accessible to Google. Our implementation was to send a url with token valid for 10 seconds. The token expired automatically after 10 seconds. We used time based cache for this as described here: T set max time to 10 seconds , I set default MaxAge to 10 millis in above...
Hi Friends, I needed to validate password for certain conditions. As per the requirements, any valid must password must pass the following conditions: Minimum of 7 characters Must have numbers and letters Must have at least a one special characters- "!,@,#,$,%,&,*,(,),+" I wrote the following method to meet the...
Hey, SOAP is one of the popular ways of working with web-services another being REST (another of my blog)), while working with any of the SOAP based API, you will get a WSDL (web services description/definition language) describing what all methods are supported by the web service. Its a rather complicated XML document. A few days...
Hi Friends, To retrieve difference between two dates with finer details which would display their difference as 2 years 7 weeks 3 days 2 hours 5 mins ago is given below. /** * Returns differnce b/w new Date and old date as Map holding difference in years, weeks, days, hrs, mins & secs */ public static Map...
This post might help you if you want to get JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Object on browser. Grails framework provides you very efficient way to achieve this. For this you need to import grails JSON convertor in your code. import grails.converters.JSON Below is the code snapshot which converts java based lists of Objects to...
Restricting the length of a string on gsps is a common scenario in most of our projects. Groovy's metaprogramming magic made it too simple for me. I added the following lines of code to Bootstrap.groovy: Object.metaClass.trimLength = {Integer stringLength -> String trimString = delegate?.toString() String...
Recently in one of my project user have the requirement where he can upload the pdf file and its get converted into the image file, that can be used by the user for manipulations. After looking at here and there finally we find out the imagemagick tool which converts pdf file to image file. Its very easy to use this tool, all you need...
In one of the projects, we had to externalize the Config file to be in a properties file. All configurations related to the application were to be stored in that file. We had a few spring beans, like the JMS connection factory, which needs the brokerURL which should ideally be an external configuration as it is will be environment...
Hi! We had a myForm.html file (accessible only from the third party) where in we needed to update the form containing input/select/check boxes with the values we had in the request params and then render it. So we used xmlslurper for the same. Without much effort, it just worked great. Following is the code we wrote: import...
I recently came across a way in Groovy to define a class which can have dynamic getters and setters and properties can be added on the fly. The following code creates a class "MyExpandableClass" and defines two methods in the "getProperty and setProperty". If we define these two methods in a groovy class, then calls to any getter or...
In my project, we needed a support for multiple paginations on the same page. For the same, we maintained the state of offset of different pagination tags and let tag use its specific offset rather than the general i.e from param.offset. Assuming, we need two paginations on the same page. Lets assume the scenario where we have a...
At Intelligrape we face many challenges while developing web-applications. One of the small challenge was to test the web pages that contains file input field <input type="File">(to upload files). After few hours drilling with Canoo webtest plugin I decided to use the new fabulous plugin, Grails functional Testing by Marc Palmer...
