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Sep 23 2013

Optimized Character Escaper for Java

By • Java SE, Programming, Scripts • 0 • Tags: ,

This specific content was written 11 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I wanted to write my own character escaper for requests going to Apache Lucent.
After writing my own, I also received feedback from programmers-stackexchange which resulted in the fastest implementation, also posted here. (Thanks to MrSmit42)

Below is my application that tests 6 different slightly different implementations over 30,000,000 executions each and outputs the time in MS.

The results in MS (on my computer) were the following:

Method 1 (Boolean Array)->    7574
Method 0 (Switch Stmt)->    9778
Method 4 (Switch Stmt Ugly – BreakPoints after evert case)->    12451
Method 6 (HashSet)->    17273
Method 5 (EnumMap)->    39516
Method 3 (Pattern/Regex)->    98229

This proves that for production systems that have many requests, jumping directly on the RegEx bandwagon for even trivial problems is not always the solution.
Even a 0,5 MS reduction per request leads to 50MS saved over 100 requests (per second) and 500MS over 1000 requests.

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May 15 2013

Why Java passes objects as references passed by value

By • Java SE, Programming • 0

This specific content was written 11 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I came across a question recently on stackoverflow that was very enlightening and proves how objects are actually passed in java. It was quite an interesting discovery!

I am quoting from here

 

Java is always pass-by-value. The difficult thing can be to understand that Java passes objects as references passed by value.

It goes like this:

public void foo(Dog d) {
  d.name.equals("Max"); // true
  d = new Dog("Fifi");
  d.name.equals("Fifi"); // true
}

Dog aDog = new Dog("Max");
foo(aDog);
aDog.name.equals("Max"); // true

In this example aDog.name will still be “Max”. “d” is not overwritten in the function as the object reference is passed by value.

Likewise:

public void foo(Dog d) {
  d.name.equals("Max"); // true
  d.setname("Fifi");
}

Dog aDog = new Dog("Max");
foo(aDog);
aDog.name.equals("Fifi"); // true

Apr 17 2013

SO:Removing duplicate rows from data pulled from db in java

By • Java SE, Mysql, Programming, Scripts • 0

This specific content was written 11 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

I’ve become an active member of stack overflow, both answering and making questions.
It’s amazing, there’s a whole community there that I hadn’t noticed before.
As I have not had time to post new items, I will be borrowing my answers to stackoverflow questions and re posting them here.


User Question:

So here’s my question. I have a giant text file of data and I need to input all of this data into a mySQL database fast through obviously using a java program. My only problem is that, the data is identified by a certain ID. Some of these ID’s have duplicates and contain all the same info as eachother. I would like to remove all of these for sorting purposes and clarity sake.

What would be the best way to go about this? If anyone could help I’d appreciate it

Answer:

clones/duplicates

clones/duplicates

While reading the data have a hashmap or hashset. check if the id exists in the hasmap/hashset and if so continue. otherwise enter in set/map and insert.

An aside: The difference between hashmap and hashset is hashset only takes values while hashmap takes key values. However, Hashset itself uses a hashmap within memory and just inserts a dummy object for values. See: Differences between HashMap and Hashtable?

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Jul 24 2012

Add new JSON document using plain text string with LightCouch

By • Couchdb, Java SE, Programming, Scripts • 0

This specific content was written 12 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

Hey,

Small post outlining a small modification to the 0.4 lightcouch source to allow direct plain text json insertion. A colleague and I had a JSON string which we wanted to insert into lightcouch without having to create a JSON object – only to have .toString() be called during the final POST request.

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Jun 12 2012

Data insertion to CouchDB using Lightcouch lib in Java (Sample)

By • Couchdb, Java SE, Scripts • 5 • Tags: , , ,

This specific content was written 12 years ago. Please keep this in mind as it may be outdated and not adhering to best-practices.

Introduction

Hello, a small sample on how to insert JSON data to couchDB.

First off there are MANY java libraries for accessing couchdb. For information on which one to choose for you the 2 links below may help:
1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1105807/which-java-library-libraries-for-couchdb
2) http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting_started_with_Java

In this post we made use of LightCouch as we wanted something relatively simple without object mappings and other such features.

Aside: an also interesting tutorial utilizing couchdb4j with description of sessions is: http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/223100116

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