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12 reasons for using a random data generator – introducing Dummy4j

24th December 202027th December 2020 little_pineconeJava, Tools

Having a sufficient sample of lifelike data greatly improves the application development process. In most cases, when we start working on a project, we don’t have the luxury of having a well-stocked database we could use in development and testing. However, we can easily create such a database using a random data generator.

Handle requests for a non-existent resource using Java Optional in a REST controller

13th December 201813th December 2018 little_pineconeSpring Boot

When an API is asked for a resource that can’t be found, it is expected to return the HTTP 404 response code. To meet this requirement we don’t need to clutter our application logic with throwing exceptions and dealing with them along the way.