Wanting to change the way logging information is logged I looked for the slf4j encoder pattern documentation. Why is it so hard to find? It turns out it was not the slf4j documentation I was looking for, but the logback documentation. Duh!
Anyway, it can be found here.
When adding to a Akka project I got the following error java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: akka.event.slf4j.Slf4jLogger. I double checked my configuration and the Akka documentation. The documentation says the following:
Akka provides a logger for SL4FJ. This module is available in the ‘akka-slf4j.jar’. It has one single dependency; the slf4j-api jar. In runtime you also need a SLF4J backend, we recommend Logback.
No success. Continue reading
With SBT it is possible to download sources and javadocs of libraries. It is really straight forward, just add withSources() and withJavadoc() to the dependency. Continue reading
Feeling a little frustrated as I just spent a considerable amount of time figuring out how to retrieve an item by index from a Seq. Finally figured it out. It can be done using the lift method. This method is also supported by other collections. Continue reading
Akka makes use of HACON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation) for configuration. Today I needed to check the config that was loaded. When printing the config to the terminal it is displayed in a compact format. I wanted to pretty print it so it was easier to read. I found a briljant blog post by marcinkubala.
I adapted a code snippet as follows: Continue reading
I was writing functionality to merge download chunks yesterday. This functionality takes a file that is downloaded in chunks and mergers these chunks back into a single file. Writing the test class I did not want my test to depend on downloading a file in chunks, so I needed a way to quickly generate a number of chunks that could be merged. Under Linux the dd command is available that generates a file of a given size that contains random contents. I wrote a small helper class that does exactly this, with the extra twist that it splits the file into a number of chunks. Continue reading
I continue to be amazed by what can be done with Scala. Once you start to understand the simplicity and beauty of coding in Scala it is really easy and fun. As part of my learning exercise I am implementing a multi threaded downloader. One part of the solution is a splitter. It takes a file size and splits it up into a number of chunks that can be downloaded in parallel. I have implemented a Chunk, that holds information about a chunk, as a case class and created a trait ChunkDownload that can be bolted on to this case class at runtime. This is so called composable behavior which adds functionality to the case class. Continue reading
I needed to parse the HTTP header Last-Modified to a Java Date. When I tried to parse the value of the header “Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:30:42 GMT” it threw an exception java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date. After playing around with the code a bit I figured out I needed to add TimeZone and Locale to get the value to parse correctly. Continue reading
Today I was adding logging to one of my projects. I decided to use scala-logger. I added scala-logger dependency to the build.sbt, excuted my test class and got the following error in the Eclipse console output:
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder". SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
I was trying to use a Future in Akka today and got the following error message:
value ? is not a member of akka.actor.ActorRef
It turns out you have to import the akka.pattern.ask to use ‘?’. There is a implicit conversion from ActorRef to AskableActorRef.
So add the following import and you should be set to go (take note that ask does not start with a capital:
import akka.pattern.ask
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