Tutorial by Examples: f

Reading from a binary file

You can read an a binary file using this piece of code in all recent versions of Java: Java SE 1.4 File file = new File("path_to_the_file"); byte[] data = new byte[(int) file.length()]; DataInputStream stream = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(file)); stream.readFully(data); s...

Java Language • File I/O

Async version of PingUrl

static void Main(string[] args) { string url = "www.stackoverflow.com"; var pingTask = PingUrlAsync(url); Console.WriteLine($"Waiting for response from {url}"); Task.WaitAll(pingTask); Console.WriteLine(pingTask.Re...

C# Language • Task Parallel Library

Component setup for Application and Activity injection

A basic AppComponent that depends on a single AppModule to provide application-wide singleton objects. @Singleton @Component(modules = AppModule.class) public interface AppComponent { void inject(App app); Context provideContext(); Gson provideGson(); } A module to use to...

Android • Dagger 2

Getting a `String` from an `InputStream`

A String can be read from an InputStream using the byte array constructor. import java.io.*; public String readString(InputStream input) throws IOException { byte[] bytes = new byte[50]; // supply the length of the string in bytes here input.read(bytes); return new String(bytes); ...

Java Language • Converting to and from Strings

Checking equality of generic values.

If logic of generic class or method requires checking equality of values having generic type, use EqualityComparer<TType>.Default property: public void Foo<TBar>(TBar arg1, TBar arg2) { var comparer = EqualityComparer<TBar>.Default; if (comparer.Equals(arg1,arg2) {...

C# Language • Generics

Optional ref keyword when using COM

The ref keyword for callers of methods is now optional when calling into methods supplied by COM interfaces. Given a COM method with the signature void Increment(ref int x); the invocation can now be written as either Increment(0); // no need for "ref" or a place holder variable any m...

C# Language • C# 4.0 Features

Search for nodes with name as Light, Device or Sensor

XML <Galaxy> <Light>sun</Light> <Device>satellite</Device> <Sensor>human</Sensor> <Name>Milky Way</Name> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[local-name()='Light' or local-name()='Device' or local-name()='Sensor'] or //*[...

xpath • Select nodes with names equal to or containing some string

Search for nodes that has name that contains Light

XML <Data> <BioLight> <name>Firefly</name> <model>Insect</model> </BioLight> <ArtificialLight> <name>Fire</name> <model>Natural element</model> <source>flint<...

xpath • Select nodes with names equal to or containing some string

Search for nodes that has name that starts with Star

XML <College> <FootBall> <Members>20</Members> <Coach>Archie Theron</Coach> <Name>Wild cats</Name> <StarFootballer>David Perry</StarFootballer> </FootBall> <Academics> ...

xpath • Select nodes with names equal to or containing some string

Search for nodes that has name that ends with Ball

XML <College> <FootBall> <Members>20</Members> <Coach>Archie Theron</Coach> <Name>Wild cats</Name> <StarPlayer>David Perry</StarPlayer> </FootBall> <VolleyBall> <Me...

xpath • Select nodes with names equal to or containing some string

Search for nodes with name light (case insensitive)

XML <Galaxy> <Light>sun</Light> <Device>satellite</Device> <Sensor>human</Sensor> <Name>Milky Way</Name> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[lower-case(local-name())="light"] or //*[lower-case(local-name())=&qu...

xpath • Select nodes with names equal to or containing some string

Functions with an Unknown Number of Arguments (variadic functions)

To create a function which accepts an undetermined number of arguments, there are two methods depending on your environment. 5 Whenever a function is called, it has an Array-like arguments object in its scope, containing all the arguments passed to the function. Indexing into or iterating over th...

JavaScript • Functions

Find nodes with a specific attribute

XML <Galaxy> <name>Milky Way</name> <CelestialObject name="Earth" type="planet"/> <CelestialObject name="Sun" type="star"/> </Galaxy> XPATH /Galaxy/*[@name] or //*[@name] OUTPUT <CelestialObje...