Merge branch 'eugenp:master' into master

apache-httpclient-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/cookies/HttpClientGettingCookieValueUnitTest.java

@@ -1,46 +1,50 @@
 package com.baeldung.httpclient.cookies;
 
-import org.apache.http.client.CookieStore;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
+
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.client.protocol.HttpClientContext;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.cookie.BasicCookieStore;
-import org.apache.http.cookie.ClientCookie;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.cookie.Cookie;
-import org.apache.http.cookie.Cookie;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.cookie.CookieStore;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCookieStore;
+
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.BasicHttpClientResponseHandler;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.impl.cookie.BasicClientCookie;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClientBuilder;
+
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.cookie.BasicClientCookie;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.protocol.HttpClientContext;
+
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+class HttpClientGettingCookieValueUnitTest {
-
-
-public class HttpClientGettingCookieValueUnitTest {
     private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HttpClientGettingCookieValueUnitTest.class);
 
     private static final String SAMPLE_URL = "http://www.baeldung.com/";
 
     @Test
-    public final void whenSettingCustomCookieOnTheRequest_thenGettingTheSameCookieFromTheResponse() throws IOException {
+    void whenSettingCustomCookieOnTheRequest_thenGettingTheSameCookieFromTheResponse() throws IOException {
+
         HttpClientContext context = HttpClientContext.create();
         context.setAttribute(HttpClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, createCustomCookieStore());
 
-        try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault()) {
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
-            try (CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL), context)) {
-                CookieStore cookieStore = context.getCookieStore();
-                Cookie customCookie = cookieStore.getCookies()
-                  .stream()
-                  .peek(cookie -> log.info("cookie name:{}", cookie.getName()))
-                  .filter(cookie -> "custom_cookie".equals(cookie.getName()))
-                  .findFirst()
-                  .orElseThrow(IllegalStateException::new);
 
-                assertEquals("test_value", customCookie.getValue());
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
-            }
+            .build()) {
+            client.execute(request, context, new BasicHttpClientResponseHandler());
+            CookieStore cookieStore = context.getCookieStore();
+            Cookie customCookie = cookieStore.getCookies()
+                .stream()
+                .peek(cookie -> log.info("cookie name:{}", cookie.getName()))
+                .filter(cookie -> "custom_cookie".equals(cookie.getName()))
+                .findFirst()
+                .orElseThrow(IllegalStateException::new);
+
+            assertEquals("test_value", customCookie.getValue());
         }
     }
 
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ public class HttpClientGettingCookieValueUnitTest {
         BasicCookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
         BasicClientCookie cookie = new BasicClientCookie("custom_cookie", "test_value");
         cookie.setDomain("baeldung.com");
-        cookie.setAttribute(ClientCookie.DOMAIN_ATTR, "true");
+        cookie.setAttribute("domain", "true");
         cookie.setPath("/");
         cookieStore.addCookie(cookie);
         return cookieStore;

core-java-modules/core-java-19/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+## Relevant Articles
+- [Record Patterns in Java 19](https://www.baeldung.com/java-19-record-patterns)

core-java-modules/core-java-8/src/main/java/com/baeldung/monad/MonadSamples.java

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+package com.baeldung.monad;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.function.Function;
+
+class MonadBaseExample {
+
+    public double multiplyBy2(double n) {
+        return n * 2;
+    }
+
+    public double divideBy2(double n) {
+        return n / 2;
+    }
+
+    public double add3(double n) {
+        return n + 3;
+    }
+
+    public double subtract1(double n) {
+        return n - 1;
+    }
+
+}
+
+class MonadSample1 extends MonadBaseExample {
+
+    public double apply(double n) {
+        return subtract1(add3(divideBy2(multiplyBy2(multiplyBy2(2)))));
+    }
+}
+
+class MonadSample2 extends MonadBaseExample {
+    public double apply(double n) {
+        double n1 = multiplyBy2(n);
+        double n2 = multiplyBy2(n1);
+        double n3 = divideBy2(n2);
+        double n4 = add3(n3);
+        return subtract1(n4);
+    }
+}
+
+class MonadSample3 extends MonadBaseExample {
+
+    public double apply(double n) {
+        return Optional.of(n)
+                .flatMap(value -> Optional.of(multiplyBy2(value)))
+                .flatMap(value -> Optional.of(multiplyBy2(value)))
+                .flatMap(value -> Optional.of(divideBy2(value)))
+                .flatMap(value -> Optional.of(add3(value)))
+                .flatMap(value -> Optional.of(subtract1(value)))
+                .get();
+    }
+
+}
+
+ class MonadSample4 extends MonadBaseExample {
+     public boolean leftIdentity() {
+         Function<Integer, Optional<Integer>> mapping = value -> Optional.of(value + 1);
+         return Optional.of(3).flatMap(mapping).equals(mapping.apply(3));
+     }
+
+     public boolean rightIdentity() {
+         return Optional.of(3).flatMap(Optional::of).equals(Optional.of(3));
+     }
+
+     public boolean associativity() {
+         Function<Integer, Optional<Integer>> mapping = value -> Optional.of(value + 1);
+         Optional<Integer> leftSide = Optional.of(3).flatMap(mapping).flatMap(Optional::of);
+         Optional<Integer> rightSide = Optional.of(3).flatMap(v -> mapping.apply(v).flatMap(Optional::of));
+         return leftSide.equals(rightSide);
+     }
+
+ }
+
+class MonadSample5 extends MonadBaseExample {
+    public boolean fail() {
+        Function<Integer, Optional<Integer>> mapping = value -> Optional.of(value == null ? -1 : value + 1);
+        return Optional.ofNullable((Integer) null).flatMap(mapping).equals(mapping.apply(null));
+    }
+}
+

core-java-modules/core-java-8/src/test/java/com/baeldung/monad/MonadSampleUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.monad;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class MonadSampleUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenNotUsingMonad_shouldBeOk() {
+        MonadSample1 test = new MonadSample1();
+        Assert.assertEquals(6.0, test.apply(2), 0.000);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenNotUsingMonadButUsingTempVars_shouldBeOk() {
+        MonadSample2 test = new MonadSample2();
+        Assert.assertEquals(6.0, test.apply(2), 0.000);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingMonad_shouldBeOk() {
+        MonadSample3 test = new MonadSample3();
+        Assert.assertEquals(6.0, test.apply(2), 0.000);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenTestingMonadProperties_shouldBeOk() {
+        MonadSample4 test = new MonadSample4();
+        Assert.assertEquals(true, test.leftIdentity());
+        Assert.assertEquals(true, test.rightIdentity());
+        Assert.assertEquals(true, test.associativity());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenBreakingMonadProperties_shouldBeFalse() {
+        MonadSample5 test = new MonadSample5();
+        Assert.assertEquals(false, test.fail());
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-arrays-convert/README.md

@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ This module contains articles about arrays conversion in Java
 - [Convert a Float to a Byte Array in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-convert-float-to-byte-array)
 - [Converting Between Stream and Array in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-stream-to-array)
 - [Convert a Byte Array to a Numeric Representation in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-byte-array-to-number)
+- [Converting a String Array Into an int Array in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-convert-string-array-to-int-array)

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-2/README.md

@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@
 - [Getting the Size of an Iterable in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-iterable-size)
 - [Java Null-Safe Streams from Collections](https://www.baeldung.com/java-null-safe-streams-from-collections)
 - [Differences Between Iterator and Iterable and How to Use Them?](https://www.baeldung.com/java-iterator-vs-iterable)
+- More articles: [[<-- prev]](/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-1) [[next -->]](/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-3)

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 - [ArrayList vs. LinkedList vs. HashMap in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-arraylist-vs-linkedlist-vs-hashmap)
 - [Java Deque vs. Stack](https://www.baeldung.com/java-deque-vs-stack)
 - [Collection.toArray(new T[0]) or .toArray(new T[size])](https://www.baeldung.com/java-collection-toarray-methods)
-- [Create an Empty Map in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-create-empty-map)
 - [Sorting Objects in a List by Date](https://www.baeldung.com/java-sort-list-by-date)
 - [Fixed Size Queue Implementations in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-fixed-size-queue)
 - [Difference Between Java Enumeration and Iterator](https://www.baeldung.com/java-enumeration-vs-iterator)
@@ -15,4 +14,4 @@
 - [Guide to Java PriorityQueue](https://www.baeldung.com/java-priorityqueue)
 - [Java Generics PECS – Producer Extends Consumer Super](https://www.baeldung.com/java-generics-pecs)
 - [Reversing a Stack in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-reversing-a-stack)
-- [Sorting a HashSet in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-sort-hashset)
+- More articles: [[<-- prev]](/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-3)

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/pom.xml

@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
             <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
             <version>${commons-lang3.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-platform-runner</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit-platform.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/collections/comparation/HashMapUnitTest.java

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ package com.baeldung.collections.comparation;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/collections/comparation/LinkedListUnitTest.java

@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@ package com.baeldung.collections.comparation;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
-import java.util.List;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/collections/sorting/EmployeeSortingByDateUnitTest.java

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils;
 import org.junit.Before;
-import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 public class EmployeeSortingByDateUnitTest {
 

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/collections/sorting/multiple/ComparatorsUnitTest.java

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-import org.junit.Test;
+
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 public class ComparatorsUnitTest {
     @Test

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/stackreversal/StackReversalUnitTest.java

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package com.baeldung.stackreversal;
 
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
 import com.baeldung.collections.sorting.Employee;
 import com.baeldung.collections.stackreversal.ReverseStackUsingQueue;
 import com.baeldung.collections.stackreversal.ReverseStackUsingRecursion;
-import org.junit.Assert;
+
-import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ public class StackReversalUnitTest {
         ReverseStackUsingQueue reverseStack = new ReverseStackUsingQueue();
         Stack<Integer> originalStack = generateStackFromGivenList(Arrays.stream(new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList()), new Stack<Integer>());
         Stack<Integer> reverseList = generateStackFromGivenList(Arrays.stream(new int[]{10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1}).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList()), new Stack<Integer>());
-        Assert.assertEquals(reverseStack.reverseIntegerStack(originalStack), reverseList);
+        assertEquals(reverseStack.reverseIntegerStack(originalStack), reverseList);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ public class StackReversalUnitTest {
         Collections.reverse(listOfWordsReversed);
         Stack<String> originalStack = generateStackFromGivenList(listOfWords, new Stack<String>());
         Stack<String> reversedStack = generateStackFromGivenList(listOfWordsReversed, new Stack<String>());
-        Assert.assertEquals(stackReversal.reverseStringStack(originalStack), reversedStack);
+        assertEquals(stackReversal.reverseStringStack(originalStack), reversedStack);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ public class StackReversalUnitTest {
         Collections.reverse(employeeReversed);
         Stack<Employee> originalStack = generateStackFromGivenList(employeeList, new Stack<Employee>());
         Stack<Employee> reverseStack = generateStackFromGivenList(employeeReversed, new Stack<Employee>());
-        Assert.assertEquals(stackReversal.reverseEmployeeStack(originalStack), reverseStack);
+        assertEquals(stackReversal.reverseEmployeeStack(originalStack), reverseStack);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ public class StackReversalUnitTest {
         ReverseStackUsingRecursion reverseStack = new ReverseStackUsingRecursion();
         Stack<Integer> originalStack = generateStackFromGivenList(Arrays.stream(new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList()), new Stack<Integer>());
         Stack<Integer> reversedStack = generateStackFromGivenList(Arrays.stream(new int[]{10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1}).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList()), new Stack<Integer>());
-        Assert.assertEquals(reverseStack.reverseIntegerStack(originalStack), reversedStack);
+        assertEquals(reverseStack.reverseIntegerStack(originalStack), reversedStack);
     }
 
     private Stack generateStackFromGivenList(List elements, Stack stack){

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/pom.xml

@@ -5,6 +5,33 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>core-java-collections-array-list</artifactId>
     <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>${maven-compiler-plugin.source}</source>
+                    <target>${maven-compiler-plugin.target}</target>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${surefire.plugin.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <argLine>
+                        --add-opens java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED
+                    </argLine>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+    <properties>
+        <maven-compiler-plugin.source>16</maven-compiler-plugin.source>
+        <maven-compiler-plugin.target>16</maven-compiler-plugin.target>
+        <surefire.plugin.version>3.0.0-M3</surefire.plugin.version>
+    </properties>
     <name>core-java-collections-array-list</name>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
@@ -20,6 +47,12 @@
             <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
             <version>${commons-collections4.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+            <version>31.1-jre</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/main/java/com/baeldung/list/ignorecase/IgnoreCaseSearchUtil.java

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.baeldung.list.ignorecase;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class IgnoreCaseSearchUtil {
+    public static boolean ignoreCaseContains(List<String> theList, String searchStr) {
+        for (String s : theList) {
+            if (searchStr.equalsIgnoreCase(s)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/main/java/com/baeldung/list/ignorecase/IgnoreCaseStringList.java

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package com.baeldung.list.ignorecase;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+public class IgnoreCaseStringList extends ArrayList<String> {
+
+    public IgnoreCaseStringList() {
+
+    }
+
+    public IgnoreCaseStringList(Collection<? extends String> c) {
+        super(c);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean contains(Object o) {
+        String searchStr = (String) o;
+        // Using Stream API:
+        // return this.stream().anyMatch(searchStr::equalsIgnoreCase);
+        for (String s : this) {
+            if (searchStr.equalsIgnoreCase(s)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/main/java/com/baeldung/listofobjectstolistofstring/Node.java

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package com.baeldung.listofobjectstolistofstring;
+
+public class Node {
+
+    private final int x;
+    private final int y;
+
+    public Node(int x, int y) {
+        this.x = x;
+        this.y = y;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "Node (" + "x=" + x + ", y=" + y + ')';
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/main/java/com/baeldung/listofobjectstolistofstring/User.java

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.baeldung.listofobjectstolistofstring;
+
+public class User {
+    private final String fullName;
+
+    public User(String fullName) {
+        this.fullName = fullName;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return "User (" + "full name='" + fullName + ')';
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/main/java/com/baeldung/triple/Triple.java

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package com.baeldung.triple;
+
+public class Triple<L, M, R> {
+
+    private final L left;
+    private final M middle;
+    private final R right;
+
+    public Triple(L left, M middle, R right) {
+        this.left = left;
+        this.middle = middle;
+        this.right = right;
+    }
+
+    public L getLeft() {
+        return left;
+    }
+
+    public M getMiddle() {
+        return middle;
+    }
+
+    public R getRight() {
+        return right;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/test/java/com/baeldung/list/ignorecase/IgnoreCaseContainsUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package com.baeldung.list.ignorecase;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+public class IgnoreCaseContainsUnitTest {
+    private static final List<String> LANGUAGES = Arrays.asList("Java", "Python", "Kotlin", "Ruby", "Javascript", "Go");
+
+    @Test
+    void givenStringList_whenCallTheStandardContains_shouldReturnFalse() {
+        String searchStr = "jAvA";
+        boolean result = LANGUAGES.contains(searchStr);
+        assertFalse(result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenStringList_whenSearchIgnoreCaseUsingStreamAPI_shouldReturnTrue() {
+        String searchStr = "koTliN";
+        boolean result = LANGUAGES.stream().anyMatch(searchStr::equalsIgnoreCase);
+        assertTrue(result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenStringList_whenUsingUtilClass_shouldReturnTrue() {
+        String searchStr = "ruBY";
+        boolean result = IgnoreCaseSearchUtil.ignoreCaseContains(LANGUAGES, searchStr);
+        assertTrue(result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenStringList_whenUsingIgnoreCaseStringList_shouldReturnTrue() {
+        String searchStr = "pYtHoN";
+        List<String> ignoreCaseList = new IgnoreCaseStringList(LANGUAGES);
+        boolean result = ignoreCaseList.contains(searchStr);
+        assertTrue(result);
+
+        boolean resultContainAll = ignoreCaseList.containsAll(Arrays.asList("pYtHon", "jAvA", "koTliN", "ruBY"));
+        assertTrue(resultContainAll);
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/test/java/com/baeldung/listofobjectstolistofstring/ConvertObjectListToStringListUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package com.baeldung.listofobjectstolistofstring;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+public class ConvertObjectListToStringListUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenObjectList_whenForEachUsedToConvert_thenReturnSuccess() {
+        List<String> outputList = new ArrayList<>(objectListWithNull().size());
+        for (Object obj : objectListWithNull()) {
+            outputList.add(Objects.toString(obj, null));
+        }
+        Assert.assertEquals(expectedStringListWithNull(), outputList);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenObjectList_whenUsingStreamsToConvert_thenReturnSuccess() {
+        List<String> outputList;
+        outputList = objectListWithNull().stream()
+          .map((obj) -> Objects.toString(obj, null))
+          .collect(Collectors.toList());
+        Assert.assertEquals(expectedStringListWithNull(), outputList);
+
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenObjectList_whenUsingStreamsUnmodifiableListToConvert_thenReturnSuccess() {
+        List<String> outputList;
+        outputList = objectListWithNull().stream()
+          .filter(Objects::nonNull)
+          .map((obj) -> Objects.toString(obj, null))
+          .collect(Collectors.toUnmodifiableList());
+        Assert.assertEquals(expectedStringListWithoutNull(), outputList);
+
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenObjectList_whenUsingGuavaTransform_thenReturnSuccess() {
+        List<String> outputList;
+        outputList = Lists.transform(objectListWithNull(), obj -> Objects.toString(obj, null));
+        Assert.assertEquals(expectedStringListWithNull(), outputList);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenObjectListWithNoNull_whenUsingToList_thenReturnSuccess() {
+        List<String> outputList;
+        outputList = objectListWithoutNull().stream()
+          .map((obj) -> Objects.toString(obj, null))
+          .toList();
+        Assert.assertEquals(expectedStringListWithoutNull(), outputList);
+    }
+
+    private List<String> expectedStringListWithNull() {
+        List<String> listOfStrings = new ArrayList<>();
+        listOfStrings.add("1");
+        listOfStrings.add("true");
+        listOfStrings.add("hello");
+        listOfStrings.add(Double.toString(273773.98));
+        listOfStrings.add(null);
+        listOfStrings.add(new Node(2, 4).toString());
+        listOfStrings.add(new User("John Doe").toString());
+        return listOfStrings;
+    }
+
+    private List<Object> objectListWithNull() {
+        List<Object> listOfStrings = new ArrayList<>();
+        listOfStrings.add(1);
+        listOfStrings.add(true);
+        listOfStrings.add("hello");
+        listOfStrings.add(Double.valueOf(273773.98));
+        listOfStrings.add(null);
+        listOfStrings.add(new Node(2, 4));
+        listOfStrings.add(new User("John Doe"));
+        return listOfStrings;
+    }
+
+    private List<String> expectedStringListWithoutNull() {
+        return List.of("1", "true", "hello", Double.toString(273773.98), new Node(2, 4).toString(), new User("John Doe").toString());
+    }
+
+    private List<Object> objectListWithoutNull() {
+        return List.of(1, true, "hello", Double.valueOf(273773.98), new Node(2, 4), new User("John Doe"));
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-array-list/src/test/java/com/baeldung/triple/TripleInListUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+package com.baeldung.triple;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+public class TripleInListUnitTest {
+
+    enum OP {
+        PLUS("+"), MINUS("-"), MULTIPLY("x");
+        final String opSign;
+
+        OP(String x) {
+            this.opSign = x;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String createQuestion(Long num1, OP operator, Long num2) {
+        long result;
+        switch (operator) {
+            case PLUS:
+                result = num1 + num2;
+                break;
+            case MINUS:
+                result = num1 - num2;
+                break;
+            case MULTIPLY:
+                result = num1 * num2;
+                break;
+            default:
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown operator");
+        }
+        return String.format("%d %s %d = ? ( answer: %d )", num1, operator.opSign, num2, result);
+    }
+
+    private static final List<String> EXPECTED_QUESTIONS = Arrays.asList(
+        "100 - 42 = ? ( answer: 58 )",
+        "100 + 42 = ? ( answer: 142 )",
+        "100 x 42 = ? ( answer: 4200 )");
+
+    @Test
+    void givenTripleValues_whenStoreAsList_thenTypeIsNotSafe() {
+
+        List myTriple1 = new ArrayList(3);
+        myTriple1.add(100L);
+        myTriple1.add(OP.MINUS);
+        myTriple1.add(42L);
+
+        List myTriple2 = new ArrayList(3);
+        myTriple2.add(100L);
+        myTriple2.add(OP.PLUS);
+        myTriple2.add(42L);
+
+        List myTriple3 = new ArrayList(3);
+        myTriple3.add(100L);
+        myTriple3.add(OP.MULTIPLY);
+        myTriple3.add(42L);
+
+        List<List> listOfTriples = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(myTriple1, myTriple2, myTriple3));
+
+        List oopsTriple = new ArrayList(3);
+        oopsTriple.add("Oops");
+        oopsTriple.add(911L);
+        oopsTriple.add("The type is wrong");
+
+        listOfTriples.add(oopsTriple);
+        assertEquals(4, listOfTriples.size());
+
+        List<String> questions = listOfTriples.stream()
+            .filter(
+                triple -> triple.size() == 3
+                    && triple.get(0) instanceof Long
+                    && triple.get(1) instanceof OP
+                    && triple.get(2) instanceof Long
+            ).map(triple -> {
+                Long left = (Long) triple.get(0);
+                OP op = (OP) triple.get(1);
+                Long right = (Long) triple.get(2);
+                return createQuestion(left, op, right);
+            }).collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+        assertEquals(EXPECTED_QUESTIONS, questions);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenTripleValues_whenUsingTheTripleClass_thenTypeIsSafeAndNeat() {
+        Triple<Long, OP, Long> triple1 = new Triple<>(100L, OP.MINUS, 42L);
+        Triple<Long, OP, Long> triple2 = new Triple<>(100L, OP.PLUS, 42L);
+        Triple<Long, OP, Long> triple3 = new Triple<>(100L, OP.MULTIPLY, 42L);
+        Triple<String, Long, String> tripleOops = new Triple<>("Oops", 911L, "The type is wrong");
+
+        List<Triple<Long, OP, Long>> listOfTriples = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(triple1, triple2, triple3));
+        // listOfTriples.add(tripleOops); // Compiler error: "java: incompatible types ... "
+
+        List<String> questions = listOfTriples.stream()
+            .map(triple -> createQuestion(triple.getLeft(), triple.getMiddle(), triple.getRight()))
+            .collect(Collectors.toList());
+
+        assertEquals(EXPECTED_QUESTIONS, questions);
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps/README.md

@@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ This module contains articles about Map data structures in Java.
 - [Immutable Map Implementations in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-immutable-maps) 
 - [Guide to Apache Commons MultiValuedMap](https://www.baeldung.com/apache-commons-multi-valued-map)
 - [The Java HashMap Under the Hood](https://www.baeldung.com/java-hashmap-advanced)
+- [Create an Empty Map in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-create-empty-map)
 - More articles: [[next -->]](/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps-2)

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps/pom.xml

@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
             <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
             <version>${commons-collections4.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-platform-runner</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit-platform.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps/src/main/java/com/baeldung/map/EmptyMapInitializer.java

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-package com.baeldung.maps.initialize;
+package com.baeldung.map;
 
-import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
-import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
@@ -10,6 +8,9 @@ import java.util.NavigableMap;
 import java.util.SortedMap;
 import java.util.TreeMap;
 
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
+
 public class EmptyMapInitializer {
 
   public static Map<String, String> articleMap;

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-maps/src/test/java/com/baeldung/map/EmptyMapInitializerUnitTest.java

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-package com.baeldung.maps.initialize;
+package com.baeldung.map;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
 public class EmptyMapInitializerUnitTest {
 
   @Test(expected=UnsupportedOperationException.class)

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-set-2/README.md

@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 
 - [Using Streams to Collect Into a TreeSet](https://www.baeldung.com/java-stream-collect-into-treeset)
 - [A Guide to LinkedHashSet in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-linkedhashset)
+- [Sorting a HashSet in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-sort-hashset)
+- More articles: [[<-- prev]](/core-java-modules/core-java-collections-set)

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-set-2/pom.xml

@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-platform-runner</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit-platform.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>

core-java-modules/core-java-collections-set-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/hashset/sorting/HashSetUnitTest.java

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package com.baeldung.collections.sorting;
+package com.baeldung.hashset.sorting;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 

core-java-modules/core-java-io-4/README.md

@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ This module contains articles about core Java input and output (IO)
 - [Generate the MD5 Checksum for a File in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-md5-checksum-file)
 - [Getting the Filename From a String Containing an Absolute File Path](https://www.baeldung.com/java-filename-full-path)
 - [Mocking Java InputStream Object](https://www.baeldung.com/java-mocking-inputstream)
+- [PrintStream vs PrintWriter in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-printstream-vs-printwriter)
 - [[<-- Prev]](/core-java-modules/core-java-io-3)
 

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/main/java/com/baeldung/inmemorycompilation/InMemoryClass.java

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;
+
+public interface InMemoryClass {
+
+    void runCode();
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/main/java/com/baeldung/inmemorycompilation/InMemoryClassLoader.java

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;
+
+import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public class InMemoryClassLoader extends ClassLoader {
+
+    private final InMemoryFileManager manager;
+
+    public InMemoryClassLoader(ClassLoader parent, InMemoryFileManager manager) {
+        super(parent);
+        this.manager = requireNonNull(manager, "manager must not be null");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected Class<?> findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
+
+        Map<String, JavaClassAsBytes> compiledClasses = manager
+            .getBytesMap();
+
+        if (compiledClasses.containsKey(name)) {
+            byte[] bytes = compiledClasses.get(name)
+                                          .getBytes();
+            return defineClass(name, bytes, 0, bytes.length);
+        } else {
+            throw new ClassNotFoundException();
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/main/java/com/baeldung/inmemorycompilation/InMemoryFileManager.java

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;
+
+import java.util.Hashtable;
+import java.util.Map;
+import javax.tools.FileObject;
+import javax.tools.ForwardingJavaFileManager;
+import javax.tools.JavaFileManager;
+import javax.tools.JavaFileObject;
+import javax.tools.JavaFileObject.Kind;
+import javax.tools.StandardJavaFileManager;
+
+public class InMemoryFileManager extends ForwardingJavaFileManager<JavaFileManager> {
+
+    private final Map<String, JavaClassAsBytes> compiledClasses;
+    private final ClassLoader loader;
+
+    public InMemoryFileManager(StandardJavaFileManager standardManager) {
+        super(standardManager);
+        this.compiledClasses = new Hashtable<>();
+        this.loader = new InMemoryClassLoader(this.getClass()
+                                                                                   .getClassLoader(),
+            this
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Used to get the class loader for our compiled class. It creates an anonymous class extending
+     * the SecureClassLoader which uses the byte code created by the compiler and stored in the
+     * JavaClassObject, and returns the Class for it
+     *
+     * @param location where to place or search for file objects.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public ClassLoader getClassLoader(Location location) {
+        return loader;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public JavaFileObject getJavaFileForOutput(Location location, String className, Kind kind,
+        FileObject sibling) {
+
+        JavaClassAsBytes classAsBytes = new JavaClassAsBytes(
+            className, kind);
+        compiledClasses.put(className, classAsBytes);
+
+        return classAsBytes;
+    }
+
+    public Map<String, JavaClassAsBytes> getBytesMap() {
+        return compiledClasses;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/main/java/com/baeldung/inmemorycompilation/JavaClassAsBytes.java

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+import javax.tools.SimpleJavaFileObject;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a Java class file (compiled byte-code)
+ */
+public class JavaClassAsBytes extends SimpleJavaFileObject {
+
+    protected final ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+    public JavaClassAsBytes(String name, Kind kind) {
+        super(URI.create("string:///" + name.replace('.', '/') + kind.extension), kind);
+    }
+
+    public byte[] getBytes() {
+        return bos.toByteArray();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public OutputStream openOutputStream() {
+        return bos;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/main/java/com/baeldung/inmemorycompilation/JavaSourceFromString.java

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;
+
+import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import javax.tools.SimpleJavaFileObject;
+
+/**
+ * Represents a Java source code file
+ */
+public class JavaSourceFromString extends SimpleJavaFileObject {
+
+    private final String sourceCode;
+
+    public JavaSourceFromString(String name, String sourceCode) {
+        super(URI.create("string:///" + name.replace('.', '/') + Kind.SOURCE.extension),
+            Kind.SOURCE
+        );
+        this.sourceCode = requireNonNull(sourceCode, "sourceCode must not be null");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public CharSequence getCharContent(boolean ignoreEncodingErrors) {
+        return sourceCode;
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/inmemorycompilation/InMemoryCompilationUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import javax.tools.DiagnosticCollector;
+import javax.tools.JavaCompiler;
+import javax.tools.JavaFileObject;
+import javax.tools.ToolProvider;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public class InMemoryCompilationUnitTest {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InMemoryCompilationUnitTest.class);
+
+    final static String QUALIFIED_CLASS_NAME = "com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation.TestClass";
+
+    final static String SOURCE_CODE =
+      "package com.baeldung.inmemorycompilation;\n"
+        + "public class TestClass implements InMemoryClass {\n"
+        + "@Override\n"
+        + "    public void runCode() {\n"
+        + "        System.out.println(\"code is running...\");\n"
+        + "    }\n"
+        + "}\n";
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenStringIsCompiled_ThenCodeShouldExecute() throws ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException {
+
+        JavaCompiler compiler = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler();
+        DiagnosticCollector<JavaFileObject> diagnostics = new DiagnosticCollector<>();
+        InMemoryFileManager manager = new InMemoryFileManager(compiler.getStandardFileManager(null, null, null));
+
+        List<JavaFileObject> sourceFiles = Collections.singletonList(new JavaSourceFromString(QUALIFIED_CLASS_NAME, SOURCE_CODE));
+
+        JavaCompiler.CompilationTask task = compiler.getTask(null, manager, diagnostics, null, null, sourceFiles);
+
+        boolean result = task.call();
+
+        if (result) {
+            diagnostics.getDiagnostics()
+              .forEach(d -> LOGGER.error(String.valueOf(d)));
+        } else {
+            ClassLoader classLoader = manager.getClassLoader(null);
+            Class<?> clazz = classLoader.loadClass(QUALIFIED_CLASS_NAME);
+            InMemoryClass instanceOfClass = (InMemoryClass) clazz.newInstance();
+
+            Assertions.assertInstanceOf(InMemoryClass.class, instanceOfClass);
+
+            instanceOfClass.runCode();
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/resource/ClassGetResourceUnitTest.java

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package com.baeldung.resource;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.net.URL;
 
+@Disabled
 class ClassGetResourceUnitTest {
 
     @Test

core-java-modules/core-java-jvm-3/src/test/java/com/baeldung/resource/ClassLoaderGetResourceUnitTest.java

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package com.baeldung.resource;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.net.URL;
 
+@Disabled
 class ClassLoaderGetResourceUnitTest {
 
     @Test

core-java-modules/core-java-lang-oop-others/pom.xml

@@ -13,4 +13,12 @@
         <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+            <version>3.12.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
 </project>

core-java-modules/core-java-lang-oop-others/src/main/java/com/baeldung/nullchecking/Car.java

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package com.baeldung.nullchecking;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+public class Car {
+
+    Integer power;
+
+    Integer year;
+
+    public boolean allNull() {
+
+        if (power != null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (year != null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    public boolean allNullV2() {
+
+        return Stream.of(power, year)
+                .allMatch(Objects::isNull);
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-lang-oop-others/src/main/java/com/baeldung/nullchecking/NullChecker.java

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.baeldung.nullchecking;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+public class NullChecker {
+
+    public static boolean allNull(Object target) {
+
+        return Arrays.stream(target.getClass()
+                        .getDeclaredFields())
+                .peek(f -> f.setAccessible(true))
+                .map(f -> getFieldValue(f, target))
+                .allMatch(Objects::isNull);
+    }
+
+    private static Object getFieldValue(Field field, Object target) {
+        try {
+            return field.get(target);
+        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-lang-oop-others/src/test/java/com/baeldung/nullchecking/NullCheckUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package com.baeldung.nullchecking;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+public class NullCheckUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenNullFields_whenCheckForNullsUsingIfs_thenReturnCorrectValue(){
+        Car car = new Car();
+
+        boolean result = car.allNull();
+
+        assertTrue(result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenNullFields_whenCheckForNullsUsingStreams_thenReturnCorrectValue(){
+        Car car = new Car();
+
+        boolean result = car.allNullV2();
+
+        assertTrue(result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenNullFields_whenCheckForNullsUsingApacheCommons_thenReturnCorrectValue(){
+        Car car = new Car();
+
+        boolean result = ObjectUtils.allNull(car.power, car.year);
+
+        assertTrue(result);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenNullFields_whenCheckForNullsUsingReflection_thenReturnCorrectValue(){
+        Car car = new Car();
+
+        boolean result = NullChecker.allNull(car);
+
+        assertTrue(result);
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-reflection/README.md

@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 - [Dynamic Proxies in Java](http://www.baeldung.com/java-dynamic-proxies)
 - [What Causes java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException?](https://www.baeldung.com/java-lang-reflect-invocationtargetexception)
 - [How to Get a Name of a Method Being Executed?](http://www.baeldung.com/java-name-of-executing-method)
+- [Getting Class Type From a String in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-get-class-object-from-string)

core-java-modules/core-java-security-3/README.md

@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ This module contains articles about core Java Security
 - [Generating a Secure AES Key in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-secure-aes-key)
 - [Computing an X509 Certificate’s Thumbprint in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-x509-certificate-thumbprint)
 - [Error: “trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty”](https://www.baeldung.com/java-trustanchors-parameter-must-be-non-empty)
+- [Common Exceptions of Crypto APIs in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-crypto-apis-exceptions)
 - More articles: [[<-- prev]](/core-java-modules/core-java-security-2)

core-java-modules/core-java-streams-4/pom.xml

@@ -59,6 +59,36 @@
             <version>3.12.0</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.reactivex.rxjava3</groupId>
+            <artifactId>rxjava</artifactId>
+            <version>${rx.java3.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.vavr</groupId>
+            <artifactId>vavr</artifactId>
+            <version>${io.varv.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
+            <artifactId>reactor-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${io.reactor3.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
+            <version>${apache.commons.collection4.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+            <version>${google.guava.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.oath.cyclops</groupId>
+            <artifactId>cyclops</artifactId>
+            <version>${cyclops.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -90,6 +120,12 @@
         <maven.compiler.target>12</maven.compiler.target>
         <rx.java.version>1.2.5</rx.java.version>
         <rx.java2.version>2.2.2</rx.java2.version>
+        <rx.java3.version>3.1.5</rx.java3.version>
+        <io.varv.version>1.0.0-alpha-4</io.varv.version>
+        <io.reactor3.version>3.5.1</io.reactor3.version>
+        <apache.commons.collection4.version>4.4</apache.commons.collection4.version>
+        <google.guava.version>31.1-jre</google.guava.version>
+        <cyclops.version>10.4.1</cyclops.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>

core-java-modules/core-java-streams-4/src/main/java/com/baeldung/streams/processing/CustomBatchIterator.java

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package com.baeldung.streams.processing;
+
+import static java.util.Spliterator.ORDERED;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Spliterators;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;
+
+public class CustomBatchIterator<T> implements Iterator<List<T>> {
+    private final int batchSize;
+    private List<T> currentBatch;
+    private final Iterator<T> iterator;
+
+    public CustomBatchIterator(Iterator<T> sourceIterator, int batchSize) {
+        this.batchSize = batchSize;
+        this.iterator = sourceIterator;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<T> next() {
+        return currentBatch;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean hasNext() {
+        prepareNextBatch();
+        return currentBatch != null && !currentBatch.isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    public static <T> Stream<List<T>> batchStreamOf(Stream<T> stream, int batchSize) {
+        return stream(new CustomBatchIterator<>(stream.iterator(), batchSize));
+    }
+
+    private static <T> Stream<T> stream(Iterator<T> iterator) {
+        return StreamSupport.stream(Spliterators.spliteratorUnknownSize(iterator, ORDERED), false);
+    }
+
+    private void prepareNextBatch() {
+        currentBatch = new ArrayList<>(batchSize);
+        while (iterator.hasNext() && currentBatch.size() < batchSize) {
+            currentBatch.add(iterator.next());
+        }
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-streams-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/streams/processing/StreamProcessingUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+package com.baeldung.streams.processing;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import org.apache.commons.collections4.ListUtils;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterators;
+
+import cyclops.data.LazySeq;
+import cyclops.reactive.ReactiveSeq;
+import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Observable;
+import reactor.core.publisher.Flux;
+
+public class StreamProcessingUnitTest {
+    public final int BATCH_SIZE = 10;
+
+    private final List<Integer> firstBatch = List.of(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9);
+    private final List<Integer> secondBatch = List.of(10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19);
+    private final List<Integer> thirdBatch = List.of(20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29);
+    private final List<Integer> fourthBatch = List.of(30, 31, 32, 33);
+
+    public Stream<Integer> data;
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    public void setUp() {
+        data = IntStream.range(0, 34)
+          .boxed();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingSpliterator_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        CustomBatchIterator.batchStreamOf(data, BATCH_SIZE)
+          .forEach(result::add);
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingCollectionAPI_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = data.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(it -> it / BATCH_SIZE))
+          .values();
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchParallelUsingCollectionAPI_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = data.parallel()
+          .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(it -> it / BATCH_SIZE))
+          .values();
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingRxJavaV3_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        // RxJava v3
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        Observable.fromStream(data)
+          .buffer(BATCH_SIZE)
+          .subscribe(result::add);
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingReactor_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        Flux.fromStream(data)
+          .buffer(BATCH_SIZE)
+          .subscribe(result::add);
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingApacheCommon_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>(ListUtils.partition(data.collect(Collectors.toList()), BATCH_SIZE));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingGuava_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        Iterators.partition(data.iterator(), BATCH_SIZE)
+          .forEachRemaining(result::add);
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingCyclops_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        ReactiveSeq.fromStream(data)
+          .grouped(BATCH_SIZE)
+          .toList()
+          .forEach(value -> result.add(value.collect(Collectors.toList())));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingCyclopsLazy_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        Collection<List<Integer>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        LazySeq.fromStream(data)
+          .grouped(BATCH_SIZE)
+          .toList()
+          .forEach(value -> result.add(value.collect(Collectors.toList())));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-streams-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/streams/processing/vavr/StreamProcessingWithVavrUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package com.baeldung.streams.processing.vavr;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import com.baeldung.streams.processing.StreamProcessingUnitTest;
+
+import io.vavr.collection.List;
+import io.vavr.collection.Stream;
+
+public class StreamProcessingWithVavrUnitTest extends StreamProcessingUnitTest {
+
+    private final List<Integer> firstBatch = List.of(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9);
+    private final List<Integer> secondBatch = List.of(10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19);
+    private final List<Integer> thirdBatch = List.of(20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29);
+    private final List<Integer> fourthBatch = List.of(30, 31, 32, 33);
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenAStreamOfData_whenIsProcessingInBatchUsingVavr_thenFourBatchesAreObtained() {
+        List<List<Integer>> result = Stream.ofAll(data)
+          .toList()
+          .grouped(BATCH_SIZE)
+          .toList();
+        assertTrue(result.contains(firstBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(secondBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(thirdBatch));
+        assertTrue(result.contains(fourthBatch));
+    }
+}

core-java-modules/core-java-uuid/src/main/java/com/baeldung/uuid/UUIDGenerator.java

@@ -27,17 +27,17 @@ public final class UUIDGenerator {
 
     private static long get64LeastSignificantBitsForVersion1() {
         final long random63BitLong = new Random().nextLong() & 0x3FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFL;
-        final long variant3BitFlag = 0x8000000000000000L;
+        long variant3BitFlag = 0x8000000000000000L;
-        return random63BitLong + variant3BitFlag;
+        return random63BitLong | variant3BitFlag;
     }
 
     private static long get64MostSignificantBitsForVersion1() {
-        final long timeForUuidIn100Nanos = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        final long currentTimeMillis = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        final long time_low = (timeForUuidIn100Nanos & 0x0000_0000_FFFF_FFFFL) << 32;
+        final long time_low = (currentTimeMillis & 0x0000_0000_FFFF_FFFFL) << 32;
-        final long time_mid = ((timeForUuidIn100Nanos >> 32) & 0xFFFF) << 16;
+        final long time_mid = ((currentTimeMillis >> 32) & 0xFFFF) << 16;
         final long version = 1 << 12;
-        final long time_hi = ((timeForUuidIn100Nanos >> 48) & 0x0FFF);
+        final long time_high = ((currentTimeMillis >> 48) & 0x0FFF);
-        return time_low + time_mid + version + time_hi;
+        return time_low | time_mid | version | time_high;
     }
 
     /**

core-java-modules/pom.xml

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
         <module>core-java-collections-2</module>
         <module>core-java-collections-3</module>
         <module>core-java-collections-4</module>
-        <module>core-java-collections-array-list</module>
         <module>core-java-collections-conversions</module>
         <module>core-java-collections-conversions-2</module>
         <module>core-java-collections-set-2</module>

gcp-firebase/src/main/java/com/baeldung/gcp/firebase/publisher/controller/FirebasePublisherController.java

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.baeldung.gcp.firebase.publisher.controller;
 
 
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ public class FirebasePublisherController {
     
     @DeleteMapping("/subscriptions/{topic}/{registrationToken}")
     public ResponseEntity<Void> deleteSubscription(@PathVariable String topic, @PathVariable String registrationToken) throws FirebaseMessagingException {
-        fcm.subscribeToTopic(List.of(registrationToken), topic);        
+        fcm.subscribeToTopic(Arrays.asList(registrationToken), topic);
         return ResponseEntity.ok().build();        
     }
 }

gradle-modules/gradle-7/README.md

@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 ### Relevant Articles:
 
 - [How to Configure Conditional Dependencies in Gradle](https://www.baeldung.com/gradle-conditional-dependencies)
+- [Working With Multiple Repositories in Gradle](https://www.baeldung.com/java-gradle-multiple-repositories)

httpclient-simple/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/base/HttpClientBasicLiveTest.java

@@ -1,72 +1,77 @@
 package com.baeldung.httpclient.base;
 
-import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import com.baeldung.handler.CustomHttpClientResponseHandler;
-import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
+
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClientBuilder;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
+
-import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ContentType;
-import com.baeldung.httpclient.ResponseUtil;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpStatus;
-import org.junit.After;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ParseException;
-import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.notNullValue;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
 
 public class HttpClientBasicLiveTest {
 
     private static final String SAMPLE_URL = "http://www.github.com";
 
-    private CloseableHttpClient instance;
-
-    private CloseableHttpResponse response;
-
-    @Before
-    public final void before() {
-        instance = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-    }
-
-    @After
-    public final void after() throws IllegalStateException, IOException {
-        ResponseUtil.closeResponse(response);
-    }
-
-    // tests
-
-    // simple request - response
-
     @Test
-    public final void whenExecutingBasicGetRequest_thenNoExceptions() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
+    public final void whenExecutingBasicGetRequest_thenNoExceptions() throws IOException {
-        response = instance.execute(new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL));
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
+
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
+
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+        }
     }
 
     @Test
-    public final void givenGetRequestExecuted_whenAnalyzingTheResponse_thenCorrectStatusCode() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
+    public final void givenGetRequestExecuted_whenAnalyzingTheResponse_thenCorrectStatusCode() throws IOException {
-        response = instance.execute(new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL));
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
-        final int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-        assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+
+            assertThat(response.getCode(), equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+        }
     }
 
-    @Test
-    public final void givenGetRequestExecuted_whenAnalyzingTheResponse_thenCorrectMimeType() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
-        response = instance.execute(new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL));
-        final String contentMimeType = ContentType.getOrDefault(response.getEntity()).getMimeType();
 
-        assertThat(contentMimeType, equalTo(ContentType.TEXT_HTML.getMimeType()));
+    @Test
+    public final void givenGetRequestExecuted_whenAnalyzingTheResponse_thenCorrectMimeType() throws IOException {
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
+
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
+
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+
+            final String contentMimeType = ContentType.parse(response.getEntity().getContentType()).getMimeType();
+            assertThat(contentMimeType, equalTo(ContentType.TEXT_HTML.getMimeType()));
+        }
     }
 
-    @Test
-    public final void givenGetRequestExecuted_whenAnalyzingTheResponse_thenCorrectBody() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
-        response = instance.execute(new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL));
-        final String bodyAsString = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
 
-        assertThat(bodyAsString, notNullValue());
+    @Test
+    public final void givenGetRequestExecuted_whenAnalyzingTheResponse_thenCorrectBody() throws IOException, ParseException {
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
+
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+
+            assertThat(response, notNullValue());
+        }
     }
 
 }

httpclient-simple/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/sec/HttpClientAuthLiveTest.java

@@ -1,118 +1,119 @@
 package com.baeldung.httpclient.sec;
 
+
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
+
 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
-import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders;
+
-import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
+import com.baeldung.handler.CustomHttpClientResponseHandler;
-import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+
-import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.AuthScope;
-import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.AuthCache;
-import org.apache.http.client.AuthCache;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.CredentialsProvider;
-import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.auth.BasicAuthCache;
-import org.apache.http.client.protocol.HttpClientContext;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.auth.BasicCredentialsProvider;
-import org.apache.http.impl.auth.BasicScheme;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.auth.BasicScheme;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicAuthCache;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClientBuilder;
-import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.protocol.HttpClientContext;
-import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHeaders;
-import com.baeldung.httpclient.ResponseUtil;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHost;
-import org.junit.After;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpStatus;
-import org.junit.Before;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.protocol.HttpContext;
-import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
-
 /*
  * NOTE : Need module httpclient-simple to be running
  */
-
+class HttpClientAuthLiveTest {
-public class HttpClientAuthLiveTest {
 
     private static final String URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION = "http://localhost:8082/httpclient-simple/api/foos/1";
     private static final String DEFAULT_USER = "user1";
     private static final String DEFAULT_PASS = "user1Pass";
-
+    private final char[] DEFAULT_PASS_ARRAY = DEFAULT_PASS.toCharArray() ;
-    private CloseableHttpClient client;
-
-    private CloseableHttpResponse response;
-
-    @Before
-    public final void before() {
-        client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-    }
-
-    @After
-    public final void after() throws IllegalStateException, IOException {
-        ResponseUtil.closeResponse(response);
-    }
-
-    // tests
 
     @Test
-    public final void whenExecutingBasicGetRequestWithBasicAuthenticationEnabled_thenSuccess() throws IOException {
+    final void whenExecutingBasicGetRequestWithBasicAuthenticationEnabled_thenSuccess() throws IOException {
-        client = HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultCredentialsProvider(provider()).build();
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION);
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
+            .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(provider())
+            .build();
 
-        response = client.execute(new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION));
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
-
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
-        final int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+            final int statusCode = response.getCode();
-        assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+            assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+        }
     }
 
     @Test
-    public final void givenAuthenticationIsPreemptive_whenExecutingBasicGetRequestWithBasicAuthenticationEnabled_thenSuccess() throws IOException {
+    final void givenAuthenticationIsPreemptive_whenExecutingBasicGetRequestWithBasicAuthenticationEnabled_thenSuccess() throws IOException {
-        client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION);
-        response = client.execute(new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION), context());
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
+            .build();
 
-        final int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
-        assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+                .execute(request, context(), new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+            final int statusCode = response.getCode();
+            assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(200));
+        }
     }
 
     @Test
-    public final void givenAuthorizationHeaderIsSetManually_whenExecutingGetRequest_thenSuccess() throws IOException {
+    final void givenAuthorizationHeaderIsSetManually_whenExecutingGetRequest_thenSuccess() throws IOException {
-        client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION);
         request.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, authorizationHeader(DEFAULT_USER, DEFAULT_PASS));
-        response = client.execute(request);
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
+            .build();
 
-        final int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
-        assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+                .execute(request, context(), new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+            final int statusCode = response.getCode();
+            assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+        }
     }
 
     @Test
-    public final void givenAuthorizationHeaderIsSetManually_whenExecutingGetRequest_thenSuccess2() throws IOException {
+    final void givenAuthorizationHeaderIsSetManually_whenExecutingGetRequest_thenSuccess2() throws IOException {
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(URL_SECURED_BY_BASIC_AUTHENTICATION);
         final String auth = DEFAULT_USER + ":" + DEFAULT_PASS;
         final byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(auth.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1));
         final String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
         request.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, authHeader);
 
-        client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
-        response = client.execute(request);
+            .build();
 
-        final int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
-        assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+            final int statusCode = response.getCode();
+            assertThat(statusCode, equalTo(HttpStatus.SC_OK));
+        }
     }
 
     // UTILS
 
     private CredentialsProvider provider() {
-        final CredentialsProvider provider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+        final HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("http", "localhost", 8082);
-        final UsernamePasswordCredentials credentials = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(DEFAULT_USER, DEFAULT_PASS);
+        final BasicCredentialsProvider provider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
-        provider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, credentials);
+        AuthScope authScope = new AuthScope(targetHost);
+        provider.setCredentials(authScope, new UsernamePasswordCredentials(DEFAULT_USER, DEFAULT_PASS_ARRAY));
         return provider;
     }
 
     private HttpContext context() {
-        final HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("localhost", 8082, "http");
+        final HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("http", "localhost", 8082);
-        final CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
+        final BasicCredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
-        credsProvider.setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, new UsernamePasswordCredentials(DEFAULT_USER, DEFAULT_PASS));
+        AuthScope authScope = new AuthScope(targetHost);
+        credsProvider.setCredentials(authScope, new UsernamePasswordCredentials(DEFAULT_USER, DEFAULT_PASS_ARRAY));
 
         // Create AuthCache instance
         final AuthCache authCache = new BasicAuthCache();

httpclient-simple/src/test/java/com/baeldung/httpclient/sec/HttpClientCookieLiveTest.java

@@ -26,24 +26,10 @@ class HttpClientCookieLiveTest {
     final void whenSettingCookiesOnARequest_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet("http://www.github.com");
         request.setHeader("Cookie", "JSESSIONID=1234");
-        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault(); CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client.execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler());) {
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.createDefault();
-            assertThat(response.getCode(), equalTo(200));
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    final void givenUsingDeprecatedApi_whenSettingCookiesOnTheHttpClient_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
-        final BasicCookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
-        final BasicClientCookie cookie = new BasicClientCookie("JSESSIONID", "1234");
-        cookie.setDomain(".github.com");
-        cookie.setAttribute("domain", "true");
-        cookie.setPath("/");
-        cookieStore.addCookie(cookie);
-        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet("https://www.github.com");
-        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
-            .setDefaultCookieStore(cookieStore)
-            .build(); CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client.execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
 
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
             assertThat(response.getCode(), equalTo(200));
         }
     }
@@ -58,9 +44,12 @@ class HttpClientCookieLiveTest {
         cookieStore.addCookie(cookie);
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet("http://www.github.com");
 
-        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultCookieStore(cookieStore).build();
+        try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create()
-            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client.execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+            .setDefaultCookieStore(cookieStore)
+            .build();
 
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
             assertThat(response.getCode(), equalTo(200));
         }
 
@@ -79,7 +68,9 @@ class HttpClientCookieLiveTest {
         // localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore); // before 4.3
 
         try (CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
-            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client.execute(request, localContext, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
+
+            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) client
+                .execute(request, localContext, new CustomHttpClientResponseHandler())) {
             assertThat(response.getCode(), equalTo(200));
         }
     }

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/pom.xml

@@ -25,6 +25,27 @@
             <version>${rest-assured.version}</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jdbc</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
+            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
+            <version>${h2.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -38,7 +59,9 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
+        <h2.version>2.1.214</h2.version>
         <rest-assured.version>3.1.1</rest-assured.version>
+        <spring-boot.version>2.5.0</spring-boot.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jackson/jsonignorevstransient/Application.java

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.jsonignorevstransient;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class Application {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
+    }
+
+}

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jackson/jsonignorevstransient/Person.java

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.jsonignorevstransient;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+class Person implements Serializable {
+
+    @JsonIgnore
+    private final Long id;
+
+    private final String firstName;
+
+    private final String lastName;
+
+    public Person(Long id, String firstName, String lastName) {
+        this.id = id;
+        this.firstName = firstName;
+        this.lastName = lastName;
+    }
+
+    public Long getId() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    public String getFirstName() {
+        return firstName;
+    }
+
+    public String getLastName() {
+        return lastName;
+    }
+
+}

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jackson/jsonignorevstransient/User.java

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.jsonignorevstransient;
+
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.Table;
+import javax.persistence.Transient;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+@Entity
+@Table(name = "Users")
+class User implements Serializable {
+
+    @Id
+    private Long id;
+
+    private String username;
+
+    private String password;
+
+    @Transient
+    private String repeatedPassword;
+
+    public User() {
+    }
+
+    public User(Long id, String username, String password, String repeatedPassword) {
+        this.id = id;
+        this.username = username;
+        this.password = password;
+        this.repeatedPassword = repeatedPassword;
+    }
+
+    public Long getId() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    public void setId(Long id) {
+        this.id = id;
+    }
+
+    public String getUsername() {
+        return username;
+    }
+
+    public void setUsername(String username) {
+        this.username = username;
+    }
+
+    public String getPassword() {
+        return password;
+    }
+
+    public void setPassword(String password) {
+        this.password = password;
+    }
+
+    public String getRepeatedPassword() {
+        return repeatedPassword;
+    }
+
+    public void setRepeatedPassword(String repeatedPassword) {
+        this.repeatedPassword = repeatedPassword;
+    }
+}

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jackson/jsonignorevstransient/UserRepository.java

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.jsonignorevstransient;
+
+import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;
+
+@Repository
+public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, Long> {
+}

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/test/java/com/baeldung/jackson/jsonignorevstransient/PersonUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.jsonignorevstransient;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
+
+class PersonUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void givenPerson_whenSerializing_thenIdFieldIgnored() throws JsonProcessingException {
+
+        Person person = new Person(1L, "My First Name", "My Last Name");
+        String result = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(person);
+
+        assertThat(result, containsString("firstName"));
+        assertThat(result, containsString("lastName"));
+        assertThat(result, not(containsString("id")));
+    }
+}

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/test/java/com/baeldung/jackson/jsonignorevstransient/UserUnitTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.jsonignorevstransient;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
+
+@SpringBootTest
+class UserUnitTest {
+
+    @Autowired
+    UserRepository userRepository;
+
+    @Test
+    void givenUser_whenSave_thenSkipTransientFields() {
+        User user = new User(1L, "user", "newPassword123", "newPassword123");
+        User savedUser = userRepository.save(user);
+
+        assertNotNull(savedUser);
+        assertNotNull(savedUser.getPassword());
+        assertNull(savedUser.getRepeatedPassword());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void givenUser_whenSerializing_thenTransientFieldNotIgnored() throws JsonProcessingException {
+        User user = new User(1L, "user", "newPassword123", "newPassword123");
+        String result = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(user);
+
+        assertThat(result, containsString("user"));
+        assertThat(result, containsString("repeatedPassword"));
+    }
+
+}

jackson-modules/jackson-annotations/src/test/resources/application.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create-drop
+
+spring.datasource.jdbcUrl=jdbc:h2:mem:testDb;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1
+spring.datasource.username=sa
+spring.datasource.password=sa

jenkins-modules/jenkins-jobs/README.md

@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 ## Relevant Articles
 - [Trigger Another Job from a Jenkins Pipeline](https://www.baeldung.com/ops/jenkins-pipeline-trigger-new-job)
+- [Fixing the “No Such DSL method” Error in Jenkins Pipeline](https://www.baeldung.com/ops/jenkins-pipeline-no-such-dsl-method-error)
+- [Jenkins Pipeline – Change to Another Folder](https://www.baeldung.com/ops/jenkins-pipeline-change-to-another-folder)

jenkins-modules/jenkins-jobs/zombie-job/pipeline-zombie-job

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+pipeline {
+    agent any
+    stages {
+        stage('Infinite Loop') {
+            steps {
+                script {
+                    while (true) {
+                        println 'This is an infinite loop!'
+                        Thread.sleep(10000)
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

jenkins-modules/jenkins-jobs/zombie-job/zombie-finish-script

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Jenkins.instance.getItemByFullName("sampleZombieJob")
+       .getBuildByNumber(17)
+       .finish(hudson.model.Result.ABORTED, new java.io.IOException("Aborting build")); 

jenkins-modules/jenkins-jobs/zombie-job/zombie-interrupt-script

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet().each() {
+    if (it.name.contains('sampleZombieJob')) {  
+      println "Stopping $it.name"
+      it.interrupt()
+    }
+}

jenkins-modules/jenkins-jobs/zombie-job/zombie-stop-script

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet().each() {
+    if (it.name.contains('sampleZombieJob')) {  
+      println "Stopping $it.name"
+      it.stop()
+    }
+}

json-modules/json-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/jsonvalidation/JacksonValidator.java

@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 package com.baeldung.jsonvalidation;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JacksonException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
 
 public class JacksonValidator {
 
-    final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+    final ObjectMapper mapper = JsonMapper.builder()
+        .enable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_TRAILING_TOKENS)
+        .build();
 
     public boolean isValid(String json) {
         try {

libraries-files/README.md

@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 ### Relevant Articles:
 
 - [How to Parse an INI File in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-parse-ini-file)
+- [Using Watermarks with iText in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/java-watermarks-with-itext)

mapstruct/pom.xml

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
     </build>
 
     <properties>
-        <org.mapstruct.version>1.4.2.Final</org.mapstruct.version>
+        <org.mapstruct.version>1.5.3.Final</org.mapstruct.version>
         <springframework.version>4.3.4.RELEASE</springframework.version>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>

microservices-modules/pom.xml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
         <module>microprofile</module>
         <module>msf4j</module>
         <module>open-liberty</module>
+        <module>rest-express</module>
     </modules>
 
 </project>

microservices-modules/rest-express/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+## RestExpress
+
+This module contains articles about RestExpress.
+
+### Relevant articles

microservices-modules/rest-express/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <parent>
+        <artifactId>microservices-modules</artifactId>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <name>rest-express</name>
+    <!--
+		To run the project: mvn clean package exec:java
+			* mongod must be running.
+
+		To create a project deployable assembly (zip file):
+			mvn clean package
+			mvn assembly:single
+	 -->
+    <description>A Basic, MongoDB-backed Service Suite</description>
+    <url>https://github.com/RestExpress/RestExpress-Scaffold</url>
+    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <artifactId>rest-express</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+    <properties>
+        <RestExpress.plugin.version>0.3.3</RestExpress.plugin.version>
+        <metrics-graphite.version>3.1.2</metrics-graphite.version>
+        <HyperExpressPlugin.version>2.6</HyperExpressPlugin.version>
+        <RestExpress.version>0.11.3</RestExpress.version>
+        <Syntaxe.version>1.0</Syntaxe.version>
+        <repoexpress-mongodb.version>0.4.8</repoexpress-mongodb.version>
+        <junit4.version>4.11</junit4.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains</groupId>
+            <artifactId>RestExpress</artifactId>
+            <version>${RestExpress.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains</groupId>
+            <artifactId>Syntaxe</artifactId>
+            <version>${Syntaxe.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains.repoexpress</groupId>
+            <artifactId>repoexpress-mongodb</artifactId>
+            <version>${repoexpress-mongodb.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains.plugin-express</groupId>
+            <artifactId>CacheControlPlugin</artifactId>
+            <version>${RestExpress.plugin.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains</groupId>
+            <artifactId>HyperExpressPlugin</artifactId>
+            <version>${HyperExpressPlugin.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains.plugin-express</groupId>
+            <artifactId>MetricsPlugin</artifactId>
+            <version>${RestExpress.plugin.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains.plugin-express</groupId>
+            <artifactId>SwaggerPlugin</artifactId>
+            <version>${RestExpress.plugin.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.strategicgains.plugin-express</groupId>
+            <artifactId>CORSPlugin</artifactId>
+            <version>${RestExpress.plugin.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.dropwizard.metrics</groupId>
+            <artifactId>metrics-graphite</artifactId>
+            <version>${metrics-graphite.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>${junit4.version}</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+            <optional>true</optional>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.0</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>1.8</source>
+                    <target>1.8</target>
+                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.2.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <mainClass>com.baeldung.restexpress.Main</mainClass>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.4.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
+                    <filters>
+                        <filter>
+                            <artifact>*:*</artifact>
+                        </filter>
+                    </filters>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>shade</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <transformers>
+                                <transformer
+                                        implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                                    <mainClass>com.baeldung.restexpress.Main</mainClass>
+                                </transformer>
+                            </transformers>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <reporting>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.0</version>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </reporting>
+</project>

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/Configuration.java

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid.SampleOidEntityController;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid.SampleOidEntityRepository;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid.SampleOidEntityService;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid.SampleUuidEntityController;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid.SampleUuidEntityRepository;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid.SampleUuidEntityService;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.MongoConfig;
+import com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.metrics.MetricsConfig;
+import org.restexpress.RestExpress;
+import org.restexpress.util.Environment;
+
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+public class Configuration
+        extends Environment {
+    private static final String DEFAULT_EXECUTOR_THREAD_POOL_SIZE = "20";
+
+    private static final String PORT_PROPERTY = "port";
+    private static final String BASE_URL_PROPERTY = "base.url";
+    private static final String EXECUTOR_THREAD_POOL_SIZE = "executor.threadPool.size";
+
+    private int port;
+    private String baseUrl;
+    private int executorThreadPoolSize;
+    private MetricsConfig metricsSettings;
+
+    private SampleUuidEntityController sampleUuidController;
+    private SampleOidEntityController sampleOidController;
+
+    @Override
+    protected void fillValues(Properties p) {
+        this.port = Integer.parseInt(p.getProperty(PORT_PROPERTY, String.valueOf(RestExpress.DEFAULT_PORT)));
+        this.baseUrl = p.getProperty(BASE_URL_PROPERTY, "http://localhost:" + String.valueOf(port));
+        this.executorThreadPoolSize = Integer.parseInt(p.getProperty(EXECUTOR_THREAD_POOL_SIZE, DEFAULT_EXECUTOR_THREAD_POOL_SIZE));
+        this.metricsSettings = new MetricsConfig(p);
+        MongoConfig mongo = new MongoConfig(p);
+        initialize(mongo);
+    }
+
+    private void initialize(MongoConfig mongo) {
+        SampleUuidEntityRepository samplesUuidRepository = new SampleUuidEntityRepository(mongo.getClient(), mongo.getDbName());
+        SampleUuidEntityService sampleUuidService = new SampleUuidEntityService(samplesUuidRepository);
+        sampleUuidController = new SampleUuidEntityController(sampleUuidService);
+
+        SampleOidEntityRepository samplesOidRepository = new SampleOidEntityRepository(mongo.getClient(), mongo.getDbName());
+        SampleOidEntityService sampleOidService = new SampleOidEntityService(samplesOidRepository);
+        sampleOidController = new SampleOidEntityController(sampleOidService);
+    }
+
+    public int getPort() {
+        return port;
+    }
+
+    public String getBaseUrl() {
+        return baseUrl;
+    }
+
+    public int getExecutorThreadPoolSize() {
+        return executorThreadPoolSize;
+    }
+
+    public MetricsConfig getMetricsConfig() {
+        return metricsSettings;
+    }
+
+    public SampleUuidEntityController getSampleUuidEntityController() {
+        return sampleUuidController;
+    }
+
+    public SampleOidEntityController getSampleOidEntityController() {
+        return sampleOidController;
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/Constants.java

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+public class Constants {
+    /**
+     * These define the URL parmaeters used in the route definition strings (e.g. '{userId}').
+     */
+    public class Url {
+        //TODO: Your URL parameter names here...
+        public static final String SAMPLE_ID = "uuid";
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * These define the route names used in naming each route definitions.  These names are used
+     * to retrieve URL patterns within the controllers by name to create links in responses.
+     */
+    public class Routes {
+        //TODO: Your Route names here...
+        public static final String SINGLE_UUID_SAMPLE = "sample.single.route.uuid";
+        public static final String SAMPLE_UUID_COLLECTION = "sample.collection.route.uuid";
+        public static final String SINGLE_OID_SAMPLE = "sample.single.route.oid";
+        public static final String SAMPLE_OID_COLLECTION = "sample.collection.route.oid";
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/LastModifiedHeaderPostprocessor.java

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.domain.Timestamped;
+import com.strategicgains.util.date.DateAdapter;
+import com.strategicgains.util.date.HttpHeaderTimestampAdapter;
+import org.restexpress.Request;
+import org.restexpress.Response;
+import org.restexpress.pipeline.Postprocessor;
+
+import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders.Names.LAST_MODIFIED;
+
+/**
+ * Assigns the Last-Modified HTTP header on the response for GET responses, if applicable.
+ *
+ * @author toddf
+ * @since May 15, 2012
+ */
+public class LastModifiedHeaderPostprocessor
+        implements Postprocessor {
+    DateAdapter fmt = new HttpHeaderTimestampAdapter();
+
+    @Override
+    public void process(Request request, Response response) {
+        if (!request.isMethodGet()) return;
+        if (!response.hasBody()) return;
+
+        Object body = response.getBody();
+
+        if (!response.hasHeader(LAST_MODIFIED) && body.getClass().isAssignableFrom(Timestamped.class)) {
+            response.addHeader(LAST_MODIFIED, fmt.format(((Timestamped) body).getUpdatedAt()));
+        }
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/Main.java

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+import org.restexpress.util.Environment;
+
+public class Main {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        Configuration config = Environment.load(args, Configuration.class);
+        Server server = new Server(config);
+        server.start().awaitShutdown();
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/Relationships.java

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid.SampleOidEntity;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid.SampleUuidEntity;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.HyperExpress;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.RelTypes;
+import org.restexpress.RestExpress;
+import org.restexpress.common.exception.ConfigurationException;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+public abstract class Relationships {
+    private static Map<String, String> ROUTES;
+
+    public static void define(RestExpress server) {
+        ROUTES = server.getRouteUrlsByName();
+
+        HyperExpress.relationships()
+          .forCollectionOf(SampleUuidEntity.class)
+          .rel(RelTypes.SELF, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_UUID_COLLECTION))
+          .withQuery("limit={limit}")
+          .withQuery("offset={offset}")
+          .rel(RelTypes.NEXT, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_UUID_COLLECTION) + "?offset={nextOffset}")
+          .withQuery("limit={limit}")
+          .optional()
+          .rel(RelTypes.PREV, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_UUID_COLLECTION) + "?offset={prevOffset}")
+          .withQuery("limit={limit}")
+          .optional()
+
+          .forClass(SampleUuidEntity.class)
+          .rel(RelTypes.SELF, href(Constants.Routes.SINGLE_UUID_SAMPLE))
+          .rel(RelTypes.UP, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_UUID_COLLECTION))
+
+          .forCollectionOf(SampleOidEntity.class)
+          .rel(RelTypes.SELF, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_OID_COLLECTION))
+          .withQuery("limit={limit}")
+          .withQuery("offset={offset}")
+          .rel(RelTypes.NEXT, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_OID_COLLECTION) + "?offset={nextOffset}")
+          .withQuery("limit={limit}")
+          .optional()
+          .rel(RelTypes.PREV, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_OID_COLLECTION) + "?offset={prevOffset}")
+          .withQuery("limit={limit}")
+          .optional()
+
+          .forClass(SampleOidEntity.class)
+          .rel(RelTypes.SELF, href(Constants.Routes.SINGLE_OID_SAMPLE))
+          .rel(RelTypes.UP, href(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_OID_COLLECTION));
+    }
+
+    private static String href(String name) {
+        String href = ROUTES.get(name);
+        if (href == null) throw new ConfigurationException("Route name not found: " + name);
+        return href;
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/Routes.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import org.restexpress.RestExpress;
+
+public abstract class Routes {
+    public static void define(Configuration config, RestExpress server) {
+        // TODO: Your routes here...
+        server.uri("/samples/uuid/{uuid}.{format}", config.getSampleUuidEntityController())
+          .method(HttpMethod.GET, HttpMethod.PUT, HttpMethod.DELETE)
+          .name(Constants.Routes.SINGLE_UUID_SAMPLE);
+
+        server.uri("/samples/uuid.{format}", config.getSampleUuidEntityController())
+          .action("readAll", HttpMethod.GET)
+          .method(HttpMethod.POST)
+          .name(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_UUID_COLLECTION);
+
+        server.uri("/samples/oid/{uuid}.{format}", config.getSampleOidEntityController())
+          .method(HttpMethod.GET, HttpMethod.PUT, HttpMethod.DELETE)
+          .name(Constants.Routes.SINGLE_OID_SAMPLE);
+
+        server.uri("/samples/oid.{format}", config.getSampleOidEntityController())
+          .action("readAll", HttpMethod.GET)
+          .method(HttpMethod.POST)
+          .name(Constants.Routes.SAMPLE_OID_COLLECTION);
+
+        // or REGEX matching routes...
+        // server.regex("/some.regex", config.getRouteController());
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/Server.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization.SerializationProvider;
+import com.codahale.metrics.MetricFilter;
+import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
+import com.codahale.metrics.graphite.Graphite;
+import com.codahale.metrics.graphite.GraphiteReporter;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.adapter.Identifiers;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.exception.DuplicateItemException;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.exception.InvalidObjectIdException;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.exception.ItemNotFoundException;
+import com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.cache.CacheControlPlugin;
+import com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.cors.CorsHeaderPlugin;
+import com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.metrics.MetricsConfig;
+import com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.metrics.MetricsPlugin;
+import com.strategicgains.restexpress.plugin.swagger.SwaggerPlugin;
+import com.strategicgains.syntaxe.ValidationException;
+import org.restexpress.Flags;
+import org.restexpress.RestExpress;
+import org.restexpress.exception.BadRequestException;
+import org.restexpress.exception.ConflictException;
+import org.restexpress.exception.NotFoundException;
+import org.restexpress.pipeline.SimpleConsoleLogMessageObserver;
+import org.restexpress.plugin.hyperexpress.HyperExpressPlugin;
+import org.restexpress.plugin.hyperexpress.Linkable;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import static io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders.Names.*;
+import static org.restexpress.Flags.Auth.PUBLIC_ROUTE;
+
+public class Server {
+    private static final String SERVICE_NAME = "TODO: Enter service name";
+    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SERVICE_NAME);
+
+    private RestExpress server;
+    private Configuration config;
+    private boolean isStarted = false;
+
+    public Server(Configuration config) {
+        this.config = config;
+        RestExpress.setDefaultSerializationProvider(new SerializationProvider());
+        Identifiers.UUID.useShortUUID(true);
+
+        this.server = new RestExpress()
+          .setName(SERVICE_NAME)
+          .setBaseUrl(config.getBaseUrl())
+          .setExecutorThreadCount(config.getExecutorThreadPoolSize())
+          .addMessageObserver(new SimpleConsoleLogMessageObserver());
+
+        Routes.define(config, server);
+        Relationships.define(server);
+        configurePlugins(config, server);
+        mapExceptions(server);
+    }
+
+    public Server start() {
+        if (!isStarted) {
+            server.bind(config.getPort());
+            isStarted = true;
+        }
+
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public void awaitShutdown() {
+        if (isStarted) server.awaitShutdown();
+    }
+
+    public void shutdown() {
+        if (isStarted) server.shutdown();
+    }
+
+    private void configurePlugins(Configuration config, RestExpress server) {
+        configureMetrics(config, server);
+
+        new SwaggerPlugin()
+          .flag(Flags.Auth.PUBLIC_ROUTE)
+          .register(server);
+
+        new CacheControlPlugin()
+          .register(server);
+
+        new HyperExpressPlugin(Linkable.class)
+          .register(server);
+
+        new CorsHeaderPlugin("*")
+          .flag(PUBLIC_ROUTE)
+          .allowHeaders(CONTENT_TYPE, ACCEPT, AUTHORIZATION, REFERER, LOCATION)
+          .exposeHeaders(LOCATION)
+          .register(server);
+    }
+
+    private void configureMetrics(Configuration config, RestExpress server) {
+        MetricsConfig mc = config.getMetricsConfig();
+
+        if (mc.isEnabled()) {
+            MetricRegistry registry = new MetricRegistry();
+            new MetricsPlugin(registry)
+              .register(server);
+
+            if (mc.isGraphiteEnabled()) {
+                final Graphite graphite = new Graphite(new InetSocketAddress(mc.getGraphiteHost(), mc.getGraphitePort()));
+                final GraphiteReporter reporter = GraphiteReporter.forRegistry(registry)
+                  .prefixedWith(mc.getPrefix())
+                  .convertRatesTo(TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+                  .convertDurationsTo(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
+                  .filter(MetricFilter.ALL)
+                  .build(graphite);
+                reporter.start(mc.getPublishSeconds(), TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+            } else {
+                LOG.warn("*** Graphite Metrics Publishing is Disabled ***");
+            }
+        } else {
+            LOG.warn("*** Metrics Generation is Disabled ***");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void mapExceptions(RestExpress server) {
+        server
+          .mapException(ItemNotFoundException.class, NotFoundException.class)
+          .mapException(DuplicateItemException.class, ConflictException.class)
+          .mapException(ValidationException.class, BadRequestException.class)
+          .mapException(InvalidObjectIdException.class, BadRequestException.class);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/objectid/SampleOidEntity.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.Constants;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.annotation.BindToken;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.annotation.TokenBindings;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.AbstractMongodbEntity;
+import org.restexpress.plugin.hyperexpress.Linkable;
+
+/**
+ * This is a sample entity identified by a MongoDB ObjectID (instead of a UUID).
+ * It also contains createdAt and updatedAt properties that are automatically maintained
+ * by the persistence layer (SampleOidEntityRepository).
+ */
+@TokenBindings({
+        @BindToken(value = Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, field = "id")
+})
+public class SampleOidEntity
+        extends AbstractMongodbEntity
+        implements Linkable {
+    private String name;
+
+    public SampleOidEntity() {
+    }
+
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public void setName(String name) {
+        this.name = name;
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/objectid/SampleOidEntityController.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.Constants;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.builder.DefaultTokenResolver;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.builder.DefaultUrlBuilder;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.builder.UrlBuilder;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.Identifiers;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import org.restexpress.Request;
+import org.restexpress.Response;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryFilter;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryOrder;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryRange;
+import org.restexpress.query.QueryFilters;
+import org.restexpress.query.QueryOrders;
+import org.restexpress.query.QueryRanges;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * This is the 'controller' layer, where HTTP details are converted to domain concepts and passed to the service layer.
+ * Then service layer response information is enhanced with HTTP details, if applicable, for the response.
+ * <p/>
+ * This controller demonstrates how to process an entity that is identified by a MongoDB ObjectId.
+ */
+public class SampleOidEntityController {
+    private static final UrlBuilder LOCATION_BUILDER = new DefaultUrlBuilder();
+    private SampleOidEntityService service;
+
+    public SampleOidEntityController(SampleOidEntityService sampleService) {
+        super();
+        this.service = sampleService;
+    }
+
+    public SampleOidEntity create(Request request, Response response) {
+        SampleOidEntity entity = request.getBodyAs(SampleOidEntity.class, "Resource details not provided");
+        SampleOidEntity saved = service.create(entity);
+
+        // Construct the response for create...
+        response.setResponseCreated();
+
+        // Include the Location header...
+        String locationPattern = request.getNamedUrl(HttpMethod.GET, Constants.Routes.SINGLE_OID_SAMPLE);
+        response.addLocationHeader(LOCATION_BUILDER.build(locationPattern, new DefaultTokenResolver()));
+
+        // Return the newly-created resource...
+        return saved;
+    }
+
+    public SampleOidEntity read(Request request, Response response) {
+        String id = request.getHeader(Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, "No resource ID supplied");
+        SampleOidEntity entity = service.read(Identifiers.MONGOID.parse(id));
+
+        return entity;
+    }
+
+    public List<SampleOidEntity> readAll(Request request, Response response) {
+        QueryFilter filter = QueryFilters.parseFrom(request);
+        QueryOrder order = QueryOrders.parseFrom(request);
+        QueryRange range = QueryRanges.parseFrom(request, 20);
+        List<SampleOidEntity> entities = service.readAll(filter, range, order);
+        long count = service.count(filter);
+        response.setCollectionResponse(range, entities.size(), count);
+        return entities;
+    }
+
+    public void update(Request request, Response response) {
+        String id = request.getHeader(Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, "No resource ID supplied");
+        SampleOidEntity entity = request.getBodyAs(SampleOidEntity.class, "Resource details not provided");
+        entity.setId(Identifiers.MONGOID.parse(id));
+        service.update(entity);
+        response.setResponseNoContent();
+    }
+
+    public void delete(Request request, Response response) {
+        String id = request.getHeader(Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, "No resource ID supplied");
+        service.delete(Identifiers.MONGOID.parse(id));
+        response.setResponseNoContent();
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/objectid/SampleOidEntityRepository.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid;
+
+import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.MongodbEntityRepository;
+
+public class SampleOidEntityRepository
+        extends MongodbEntityRepository<SampleOidEntity> {
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public SampleOidEntityRepository(MongoClient mongo, String dbName) {
+        super(mongo, dbName, SampleOidEntity.class);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/objectid/SampleOidEntityService.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.objectid;
+
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.domain.Identifier;
+import com.strategicgains.syntaxe.ValidationEngine;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryFilter;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryOrder;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryRange;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * This is the 'service' or 'business logic' layer, where business logic, syntactic and semantic
+ * domain validation occurs, along with calls to the persistence layer.
+ */
+public class SampleOidEntityService {
+    private SampleOidEntityRepository samples;
+
+    public SampleOidEntityService(SampleOidEntityRepository samplesRepository) {
+        super();
+        this.samples = samplesRepository;
+    }
+
+    public SampleOidEntity create(SampleOidEntity entity) {
+        ValidationEngine.validateAndThrow(entity);
+        return samples.create(entity);
+    }
+
+    public SampleOidEntity read(Identifier id) {
+        return samples.read(id);
+    }
+
+    public void update(SampleOidEntity entity) {
+        ValidationEngine.validateAndThrow(entity);
+        samples.update(entity);
+    }
+
+    public void delete(Identifier id) {
+        samples.delete(id);
+    }
+
+    public List<SampleOidEntity> readAll(QueryFilter filter, QueryRange range, QueryOrder order) {
+        return samples.readAll(filter, range, order);
+    }
+
+    public long count(QueryFilter filter) {
+        return samples.count(filter);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/JsonSerializationProcessor.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.domain.hal.HalResource;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.serialization.jackson.HalResourceDeserializer;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.serialization.jackson.HalResourceSerializer;
+import org.bson.types.ObjectId;
+import org.restexpress.ContentType;
+import org.restexpress.serialization.json.JacksonJsonProcessor;
+
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+public class JsonSerializationProcessor
+        extends JacksonJsonProcessor {
+    public JsonSerializationProcessor() {
+        super();
+        addSupportedMediaTypes(ContentType.HAL_JSON);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void initializeModule(SimpleModule module) {
+        super.initializeModule(module);
+        // For UUID as entity identifiers...
+        module.addDeserializer(UUID.class, new UuidDeserializer());
+        module.addSerializer(UUID.class, new UuidSerializer());
+
+        // For MongoDB ObjectId as entity identifiers...
+        module.addDeserializer(ObjectId.class, new ObjectIdDeserializer());
+        module.addSerializer(ObjectId.class, new ObjectIdSerializer());
+
+        // Support HalResource (de)serialization.
+        module.addDeserializer(HalResource.class, new HalResourceDeserializer());
+        module.addSerializer(HalResource.class, new HalResourceSerializer());
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/ObjectIdDeserializer.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.Identifiers;
+import org.bson.types.ObjectId;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class ObjectIdDeserializer
+        extends JsonDeserializer<ObjectId> {
+    @Override
+    public ObjectId deserialize(JsonParser json, DeserializationContext context)
+            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
+        return (ObjectId) Identifiers.MONGOID.parse(json.getText()).primaryKey();
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/ObjectIdSerializer.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
+import org.bson.types.ObjectId;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class ObjectIdSerializer
+        extends JsonSerializer<ObjectId> {
+    @Override
+    public void serialize(ObjectId objectId, JsonGenerator json, SerializerProvider provider)
+            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
+        json.writeString(objectId.toString());
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/SerializationProvider.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import org.restexpress.response.ErrorResponseWrapper;
+import org.restexpress.response.ResponseWrapper;
+import org.restexpress.serialization.AbstractSerializationProvider;
+import org.restexpress.serialization.SerializationProcessor;
+
+public class SerializationProvider
+        extends AbstractSerializationProvider {
+    // SECTION: CONSTANTS
+
+    private static final SerializationProcessor JSON_SERIALIZER = new JsonSerializationProcessor();
+    private static final SerializationProcessor XML_SERIALIZER = new XmlSerializationProcessor();
+    private static final ResponseWrapper RESPONSE_WRAPPER = new ErrorResponseWrapper();
+
+    public SerializationProvider() {
+        super();
+        add(JSON_SERIALIZER, RESPONSE_WRAPPER, true);
+        add(XML_SERIALIZER, RESPONSE_WRAPPER);
+    }
+
+    public static SerializationProcessor json() {
+        return JSON_SERIALIZER;
+    }
+
+    public static SerializationProcessor xml() {
+        return XML_SERIALIZER;
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/UuidDeserializer.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.util.UuidConverter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+public class UuidDeserializer
+        extends JsonDeserializer<UUID> {
+    @Override
+    public UUID deserialize(JsonParser json, DeserializationContext context)
+            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
+        return UuidConverter.parse(json.getText());
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/UuidFormatter.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.annotation.TokenFormatter;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.util.UuidConverter;
+
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+public class UuidFormatter
+        implements TokenFormatter {
+    @Override
+    public String format(Object field) {
+        return UuidConverter.format((UUID) field);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/UuidSerializer.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.util.UuidConverter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+public class UuidSerializer
+        extends JsonSerializer<UUID> {
+    @Override
+    public void serialize(UUID objectId, JsonGenerator json, SerializerProvider provider)
+            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
+        json.writeString(UuidConverter.format(objectId));
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/XmlSerializationProcessor.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid.SampleUuidEntity;
+import org.restexpress.serialization.xml.XstreamXmlProcessor;
+
+public class XmlSerializationProcessor
+        extends XstreamXmlProcessor {
+    public XmlSerializationProcessor() {
+        super();
+        alias("sample", SampleUuidEntity.class);
+//		alias("element_name", Element.class);
+//		alias("element_name", Element.class);
+//		alias("element_name", Element.class);
+//		alias("element_name", Element.class);
+        registerConverter(new XstreamUuidConverter());
+        registerConverter(new XstreamOidConverter());
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/XstreamOidConverter.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.Identifiers;
+import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverter;
+import org.bson.types.ObjectId;
+
+/**
+ * @author toddf
+ * @since Feb 16, 2011
+ */
+public class XstreamOidConverter
+        implements SingleValueConverter {
+    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+    @Override
+    public boolean canConvert(Class aClass) {
+        return ObjectId.class.isAssignableFrom(aClass);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object fromString(String value) {
+        return (ObjectId) Identifiers.MONGOID.parse(value).primaryKey();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString(Object objectId) {
+        return ((ObjectId) objectId).toString();
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/serialization/XstreamUuidConverter.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization;
+
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.util.UuidConverter;
+import com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.SingleValueConverter;
+
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+/**
+ * @author toddf
+ * @since Feb 16, 2011
+ */
+public class XstreamUuidConverter
+        implements SingleValueConverter {
+    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
+    @Override
+    public boolean canConvert(Class aClass) {
+        return UUID.class.isAssignableFrom(aClass);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object fromString(String value) {
+        return UuidConverter.parse(value);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString(Object objectId) {
+        return UuidConverter.format((UUID) objectId);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/uuid/SampleUuidEntity.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.Constants;
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.serialization.UuidFormatter;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.annotation.BindToken;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.annotation.TokenBindings;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.AbstractUuidMongodbEntity;
+import org.restexpress.plugin.hyperexpress.Linkable;
+
+/**
+ * This is a sample entity identified by a UUID (instead of a MongoDB ObjectID).
+ * It also contains createdAt and updatedAt properties that are automatically maintained
+ * by the persistence layer (SampleUuidEntityRepository).
+ */
+@TokenBindings({
+        @BindToken(value = Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, field = "id", formatter = UuidFormatter.class)
+})
+public class SampleUuidEntity
+        extends AbstractUuidMongodbEntity
+        implements Linkable {
+    public SampleUuidEntity() {
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/uuid/SampleUuidEntityController.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid;
+
+import com.baeldung.restexpress.Constants;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.builder.DefaultTokenResolver;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.builder.DefaultUrlBuilder;
+import com.strategicgains.hyperexpress.builder.UrlBuilder;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.adapter.Identifiers;
+import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
+import org.restexpress.Request;
+import org.restexpress.Response;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryFilter;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryOrder;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryRange;
+import org.restexpress.query.QueryFilters;
+import org.restexpress.query.QueryOrders;
+import org.restexpress.query.QueryRanges;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * This is the 'controller' layer, where HTTP details are converted to domain concepts and passed to the service layer.
+ * Then service layer response information is enhanced with HTTP details, if applicable, for the response.
+ * <p/>
+ * This controller demonstrates how to process a MongoDB entity that is identified by a UUID.
+ */
+public class SampleUuidEntityController {
+    private static final UrlBuilder LOCATION_BUILDER = new DefaultUrlBuilder();
+    private SampleUuidEntityService service;
+
+    public SampleUuidEntityController(SampleUuidEntityService sampleService) {
+        super();
+        this.service = sampleService;
+    }
+
+    public SampleUuidEntity create(Request request, Response response) {
+        SampleUuidEntity entity = request.getBodyAs(SampleUuidEntity.class, "Resource details not provided");
+        SampleUuidEntity saved = service.create(entity);
+
+        // Construct the response for create...
+        response.setResponseCreated();
+
+        // Include the Location header...
+        String locationPattern = request.getNamedUrl(HttpMethod.GET, Constants.Routes.SINGLE_UUID_SAMPLE);
+        response.addLocationHeader(LOCATION_BUILDER.build(locationPattern, new DefaultTokenResolver()));
+
+        // Return the newly-created resource...
+        return saved;
+    }
+
+    public SampleUuidEntity read(Request request, Response response) {
+        String id = request.getHeader(Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, "No resource ID supplied");
+        SampleUuidEntity entity = service.read(Identifiers.UUID.parse(id));
+        return entity;
+    }
+
+    public List<SampleUuidEntity> readAll(Request request, Response response) {
+        QueryFilter filter = QueryFilters.parseFrom(request);
+        QueryOrder order = QueryOrders.parseFrom(request);
+        QueryRange range = QueryRanges.parseFrom(request, 20);
+        List<SampleUuidEntity> entities = service.readAll(filter, range, order);
+        long count = service.count(filter);
+        response.setCollectionResponse(range, entities.size(), count);
+        return entities;
+    }
+
+    public void update(Request request, Response response) {
+        String id = request.getHeader(Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, "No resource ID supplied");
+        SampleUuidEntity entity = request.getBodyAs(SampleUuidEntity.class, "Resource details not provided");
+        entity.setId(Identifiers.UUID.parse(id));
+        service.update(entity);
+        response.setResponseNoContent();
+    }
+
+    public void delete(Request request, Response response) {
+        String id = request.getHeader(Constants.Url.SAMPLE_ID, "No resource ID supplied");
+        service.delete(Identifiers.UUID.parse(id));
+        response.setResponseNoContent();
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/uuid/SampleUuidEntityRepository.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid;
+
+import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.mongodb.MongodbUuidEntityRepository;
+
+public class SampleUuidEntityRepository
+        extends MongodbUuidEntityRepository<SampleUuidEntity> {
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    public SampleUuidEntityRepository(MongoClient mongo, String dbName) {
+        super(mongo, dbName, SampleUuidEntity.class);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/java/com/baeldung/restexpress/uuid/SampleUuidEntityService.java

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+package com.baeldung.restexpress.uuid;
+
+import com.strategicgains.repoexpress.domain.Identifier;
+import com.strategicgains.syntaxe.ValidationEngine;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryFilter;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryOrder;
+import org.restexpress.common.query.QueryRange;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * This is the 'service' or 'business logic' layer, where business logic, syntactic and semantic
+ * domain validation occurs, along with calls to the persistence layer.
+ */
+public class SampleUuidEntityService {
+    private SampleUuidEntityRepository samples;
+
+    public SampleUuidEntityService(SampleUuidEntityRepository samplesRepository) {
+        super();
+        this.samples = samplesRepository;
+    }
+
+    public SampleUuidEntity create(SampleUuidEntity entity) {
+        ValidationEngine.validateAndThrow(entity);
+        return samples.create(entity);
+    }
+
+    public SampleUuidEntity read(Identifier id) {
+        return samples.read(id);
+    }
+
+    public void update(SampleUuidEntity entity) {
+        ValidationEngine.validateAndThrow(entity);
+        samples.update(entity);
+    }
+
+    public void delete(Identifier id) {
+        samples.delete(id);
+    }
+
+    public List<SampleUuidEntity> readAll(QueryFilter filter, QueryRange range, QueryOrder order) {
+        return samples.readAll(filter, range, order);
+    }
+
+    public long count(QueryFilter filter) {
+        return samples.count(filter);
+    }
+}

microservices-modules/rest-express/src/main/resources/config/dev/environment.properties

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+# Default is 8081
+port = 8081
+
+# The size of the executor thread pool (that can handle blocking back-end processing).
+executor.threadPool.size = 20
+
+# A MongoDB URI/Connection string
+# see: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/connection-string/
+mongodb.uri = mongodb://localhost:27017/scaffolding_mongodb
+
+# The base URL, used as a prefix for links returned in data
+# default is http://localhost:<port>
+#base.url = http://localhost:8081
+
+#Configuration for the MetricsPlugin/Graphite
+metrics.isEnabled = true
+#metrics.machineName = 
+metrics.prefix = web1.example.com
+metrics.graphite.isEnabled = false
+metrics.graphite.host = graphite.example.com
+metrics.graphite.port = 2003
+metrics.graphite.publishSeconds = 60