Author: Anupama Prabhakar

In Java, there are several different ways to append text in a file. For file operations, Java provides several classes. To appending text quickly you can use Files class. Append text to file example: try { Files.write(Paths.get(“file1.txt”), “text to append”.getBytes(), StandardOpenOption.APPEND); } catch (IOException e) { // To exception handling here } But above method Read More …

Loops in programming languages used to iterate over collections like for loop, while .. do etc. In Java iterating over collections looks very ugly. Consider method in the following example which uses for loop to iterate over a collection. public static void main(String[] args) { List fruitList = new ArrayList(); fruitList.add(“mango”); fruitList.add(“banana”); fruitList.add(“apple”); printFruits(fruitList); } Read More …

In java many time we need to make a request with cookies support. For example, if a REST service is configured to manage session using cookie session or cookie-based session key then we need to use HTTP client with cookie support. For this Apache HttpClient client provides HttpClientBuilder Class, CookieStore interface and BasicCookieStore. Using these Read More …

While Using Apache HttpClient library to make Http requests, we should always release connection immediately after completion of the operation. For making HttpRequest Apache HttpClient library provides CloseableHttpClient and CloseableHttpResponse classes which implements java closable interface. By calling the close method of a closeable object in finally block we can close or dispose of connection Read More …

Apache HttpClient library provides the ResponseHandler interface. By implementing ResponseHandler you can handle HTTP responses in a clean way. Using the response handler is the recommended way of executing HTTP requests and processing HTTP responses. This approach of handling response enables the caller to concentrate on the process of digesting HTTP responses and to delegate Read More …

To format numbers, Java provides classes like NumberFormat and DecimalFormat classes. DecimalFormat is a concrete subclass of NumberFormat that formats decimal numbers. It has a variety of features designed to make it possible to parse and format numbers in any locale. All of these can be localized. Read more about DecimalFormat class on Oracle website. Read More …

Java String class provides a method to split the string using a delimiter. It takes delimiter as a regular expression and Splits this string around matches of the given regular expression. This method has two overloaded versions. public String[] split(String regex, int limit) The array returned by this method contains each substring of this string that Read More …

There are many classes in Java to generate random numbers. Random and ThreadLocalRandom are best to generate numbers between ranges. ThreadLocalRandom class Since Java 7, it provides ThreadLocalRandom class to generate random numbers. A random number generator isolated to the current thread. Like the global Random generator used by the Math class, a ThreadLocalRandom is Read More …

Many time printing arrays in Java are required to logging and debugging purpose. In Java provides Arrays.toString(arr) or Arrays.deepToString(arr) for arrays within arrays (a nested array) to formatting simple arrays into printable strings. Example of printing a simple array: String names[] = new String[] {“ssp”,”anu”,”kirti”,”shaurya”}; System.out.println(names); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(names)); the output of above code is given below: [Ljava.lang.String;@2a139a55 [ssp, anu, Read More …

ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is an exception, thrown to indicate that an array has been accessed with an illegal index. The index is either negative or greater than or equal to the size of the array. illegal index in java is index value less than zero or -ve values and index value equal to or greater than array Read More …