Do you think you have the toString() method in the right class?

Odd question. Are you working on some homework or something? Perhaps give us some context and tell us what you think the answer is to your question?

Joshua Bloch wrote:Oracle is extremely litigious (ask me how I know)

I'll bite. Tell us how you know?

Ooh ooh ... I see it I see it.

Streams


and Lambdas

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It so happens now that all I learned with the double imprecision puzzler is coming in mighty handy at work these days. Let's just say that we're using double values where we strictly shouldn't, but have deliberately decided to do so, and are repeatedly paying the cost of accounting for the imprecision.

I really like the Puzzlers book, and I regularly roll out an example from it to the rest of my team as a fun "what does this code do?" challenge. It's good for switching our brains into a different gear for a short time while we discuss why we were all wrong And of course it builds up our Java language knowledge just a little bit too.

Are they not the same? Perhaps you could elaborate on why you think they are different?

As someone with all three editions in their library, I can tell you that I'd consider each new edition a replacement for the previous. All the good advice is carried over.

Hello, yes this weekend is a public holiday in the UK so I have been taking a break away from computer work and have been doing some physical work decorating the house instead. I'm not cut out for physical work at all, I'm knackered! Anyway, back to the matter at hand...

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You did not commit any changes to the task_2219 branch so you're still working with local changes that do not belong to any git branch. If you're not ready to commit them, then you can stash them, otherwise commit them before switching back to the develop branch.

According to my profile, I registered here at the Ranch on this day 10 years ago, 28th March 2008.

I'm glossing over the fact that I didn't post anything until 2013 because I don't want the facts to get in the way of a good story

What a great place to hang out.

I assume when you say "profile" that you mean the little section about you next to your posts in the forum? The name displayed there is the first and last name you've set in your user profile.

Your display name is your First and Last name as configured in your profile. You don't have to use your real name but we do ask that it is not obviously fictitious as you'll find laid out in our Naming Policy. You can request a name change through your profile pages that will be sent to the Ranch Staff for approval.

Welcome to the Ranch yourself Barry!

Barry Propes wrote:Welcome to the Java Ranch forums, Alex!

You mean CodeRanch of course.

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What is the problem with your current project that you're hoping to solve with Maven?

Translated into Groovy

Thank you Ron.

Now to translate that into my Groovy script.

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I'm trying to access a website from a script and am having some difficulty. I've had a script connecting to this site successfully in the past but has recently stopped working.

When I navigate to this site from a browser everything is ok, but when I use a script tool such as curl I get nothing, no content, no HTTP response, nothing.

In wireshark I can see no HTTP response.

Any idea what's going on here?

It makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to have some compulsory identifying mark for pedestrians and other drivers to be able to distinguish between human driven vehicles and computer driven vehicles. One might be less willing to assume you've been seen if you knew there wasn't a real person behind the wheel.

I liked the joke Liutauras. My colleagues liked it too

Nice interview. Good job

I'd be interested to hear how you get on with Spark. If you try it at all that is.

Spark wrote:A micro framework for creating web applications in Kotlin and Java 8 with minimal effort

Tag lines such as this make me nervous. In my previous experience of similarly pitched products it has turned out to be really handy at first getting set up very quickly, but frustration emerges when you want to do something outside of the prescribed 'modus operandi'. Then things get really hacky really quickly and the initial benefits are soon lost.

Almost certainly a test question.

Houna, for the purposes of copyright and correct attribution please state where you have copied this question from?

Might I suggest taking a step back even further and see whether an 'off the shelf' CMS would fit your requirements? Something like Joomla for instance?

In summary: You discovered that Array is not a valid Java type.

chamini prashakthi wrote:And I finally suggest it is better if there is a section on unit tests.It is something that developers must be awre of ...

We have a Testing Forum that is home to many Unit Test discussions.

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I expect after 9 years since the OP asked the question they have solved it or have long stopped caring about it.

What is the Array type? It doesn't look to be part of the standard Java library. Can you tell us what package that class belongs to?

Also, you say "It shows error" but you don't say what the error is?

I guess Chamini is talking about the Mockito feature ArgumentCaptor.

When you say "String array" you mean a String[] type? I haven't tried it myself, but in theory String[] is a descendant of Object so could work. Have you tried it? What did you discover?

Now you didn't mention that before. It is your company threatening legal action?

The legalities differ from country to country with regards to employment law, so you'd need to check your local laws, but in the UK where I live that sounds like 'unfair dismissal'. If you did not know about any wrongdoing on his part when you provided the reference, then as long as there are no other issues with using your company email to provide a reference, then I can't see what they have against you. Perhaps they have a policy against providing references using your company email?

What exactly are they threatening? What law are they claiming you have broken? Do they have any policies around providing references using company email?

I can't imagine there would be any formal action that can be taken against you, especially if you didn't know about him leaving without notice at that time. However, you might have lost a bit of credibility with the other company if they happen to find out. Ultimately, it's the responsibility of the other company to make up their own mind about employing him.