I am working on a Java application to connect with HP ALM 12 using their REST API programmatically and have been hitting some road blocks as they don't seem to provide any examples for that in their documentation, unless I am looking at the wrong place.
So far, I have been able to do the following:
Authenticate a user
Get a list of all existing entities, defects
Has anyone been able to do the following
Get a list of fields (for any new defect) in any particular release
Determine if those fields are required (mandatory) or not
Then based on that create a new defect and save that defect in ALM using the REST API ?
Get a confirmation for the created defect, such as a Defect ID.
Any example or suggestions are welcome.
After some digging through their documentation, I figured out the schema elements for the defect type and all its dependencies. I then generated JAXB classes out of them using Java's xjc utility. Then used it to marshall an XML that I was able to insert in ALM 12 with no issues. There, however, seem to be certain fields within ALM 12 that need special attention (i.e, DetectedInRelease etc) that store an internal folder structure instead of a straight value. Other than that, it seemed straightforward. I will try to write up a blog article with sample code as soon as I find some free time.
Meanwhile, if anyone has specific questions about the process, please post them here and I will try to answer them to the best of my knowledge.
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Note:There is a good chance I'm not using the correct terminology here and that maybe the reason I'm not finding the answers to my question. I apologize upfront if this has been already answered, so please just direct me there.
I am looking for an open source framework written in Java that would allow me to build pluggable data connectors (and obviously have some built in already) and almost have a query language (abstraction layer) that would translate into any of those connections.
For example: I would be able to say:
Fetch 1 record from a Mongo DB that matches name='John Doe'
and get JSON as a response
or I could say
Fetch all records from a MySQL DB that matches name='John Doe'
and get a JSON as a response
If not exactly what I described, I am willing to work with anything that would have a part of this solved.
Thank you in advance!
You're not going to find a "Swiss army knife" data abstraction framework that does all of the above. Perhaps the closest things to what you ask for would be JPA providers for both Mongo and MySQL (Hibernate is a well-regarded JPA provider for MySQL, and a quick google search shows Kundera, DataNucleus and Hibernate OGM for Mongo). This will let you map your data to Java Objects, which might be a step further than what you ask for since you explicitly asked for JSON; however, there are numerous options for mapping the resulting objects into JSON if you need to present JSON to a user or another system (Jackson comes to mind for this).
Try YADA, an open source data-abstraction framework.
From the README:
YADA is like a Universal Remote Control for data.
For example, what if you could access
any data set
at any data source
in any format
from any environment
using just a URL
with just one-time configuration?
You can with YADA.
Or, what if you could get data
from multiple sources
in different formats
merging the results
into a single set
on-the-fly
with uniform column names
using just one URL?
You can with YADA.
Full disclosure: I am the creator of YADA.
I am using the ElasticsearchService from Amazon. I am a little overwhelmed by their documentation. I find it vast but ever so difficult to navigate. Anyway, I am looking for an example of using the ESService using their AWS Java SDK. Do you have a link - or some code to insert a document?
I am actually using it from Scala, and what I've got so far is:
val awsEsClient: AWSElasticsearchClient = new AWSElasticsearchClient()
awsEsClient.setRegion(Region.getRegion(Regions.EU_CENTRAL_1))
awsEsClient.setEndpoint("es.eu-central-1.amazon.aws.com")
val createD = new CreateElasticsearchDomainRequest()
Where should I specify my own instance ARN? The uri that looks like
arn:aws:es:eu-central-1:xxxxxxxxxxx:domain/yyyyyyyy
Also, when using their SDK, I guess I don't need to specify anywhere the endpoint they provide? The one that goes by
search-yyyyyy-xxxxxxxxxx.eu-central-1.es.amazonaws.com
Or maybe this is what I should specify instead of the
awsEsClient.setEndpoint("es.eu-central-1.amazon.aws.com")
Thank you for your help and sorry if all these questions sound obvious.
So, I got the whole thing wrong from the beginning. The SDK is useful only in order to manage the service, like spin up new nodes and similar -- not to access it. For that, the only solution that Amazon offers is an HTTP endpoint, using the common REST api offered by Elastic Search.
The problem that came next was to authenticate the requests. I have compiled a scala library to do that for every request, which is available here: https://github.com/ticofab/aws-request-signer.
We made our own api for airbrake.io in java. This works fine but airbrake is displaying parameters and stacktraces in some kind of Rails style. This is somewhat annoying. Anyone know of similar services made for java?
Example of how data is displayed:
Parameters
{"controller"=>"", "action"=>""}
Stacktrace
/testapp/app/models/user.rb:53:in `public'
/testapp/app/controllers/users_controller.rb:14:in `index'
UPDATE 2015-02-13: This service no longer exists. The GitHub account linked below is gone, as is the company website.
Have you tried using Coalmine https://github.com/coalmine/coalmine_java Its meant to be used with the Coalmine service: https://getcoalmine.com/
I work at Coalmine and we have been using this internally for some time now. We just open sourced the java connector this week and I would be happy to help you get started with it. You can send me an email at brad#builtfromsource.com
Have you tried using http://code.google.com/p/hoptoad/ . It's a little out of date, but it should just need to update an endpoint to http://api.airbrake.io .
A quick google lead me to http://logdigger.com/ which is designed specific for JAVA specific sites.
I work at Airbrake, and I would be happy to work with you to make our site more JAVA friendly. Please get in touch ben#airbrake.io, and I'll see how we can better display java specific information.
Just adding to the others suggested here, but Raygun (http://raygun.io) has first class support for Java.
Read more here: http://raygun.io/java
I work for Mindscape who built Raygun so can answer any questions you may have about it: jd#mindscape.co.nz. We already have a large number of organizations using Raygun with their Java apps, although Raygun does support other platforms (.NET, Node, Rails, PHP, etc)
We have recently installed a Google Search Appliance in order to power our internal search (via the Java API), and all seems to be well, however I have a question regarding 'automatic' site-map generation that I'm hoping you guys may know the answer to.
We are aware of the GSA's ability to auto-generate site maps for each of its collections, however this process is rather manual, and considering that we have around 10 regional sites that need to be updated as often as possible, its not ideal to have to log into the admin interface on a regular basis in order to export them to the site root where search engines can find them.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any API support for this, at least none that I can find, so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a solution/workaround or, if all else fails, the best alternative.
At present I'm thinking that if we can get the full index back from the API in the form of a list, then we can write an XML file out using that the old fashioned way using a chronjob or similar, however this seems like a bit of a clumsy solution - any better ideas.
You could try the GSA Admin Toolkit, or simply write some code yourself which just logs in on the administration page and then uses that session to invoke the sitemap export URL (which is basically what the Admin Toolkit does).
I'm trying to find the best way of parsing the response from a "normal" (i.e. not using the API) Google Maps page in my java code.
Reason: I want to submit a query string requesting a listing (be it hotels, restaurants etc.) and then parse the JSON that comes back. I had looked into using the Google Maps API, but it doesn't seem to cover what I want to do, as this type of URL:
http://maps.google.de/maps/geo?q=address&output=xml&oe=utf8&sensor=false&key=...
is OK but this isn't:
http://maps.google.de/maps/geo?q=address+hotels&output=xml&oe=utf8&sensor=false&key=...
(due to the "+hotels" term). So I think the only option is to use a google maps response e.g.
http://maps.google.de/maps?q=address+hotels
and parse the JSON information that is included at the end. Does anyone have some hints as to how best accomplish this?
You should first make absolutely sure that the API doesn't support what you need. Checking the docs and maybe even reaching a real Googler might pay off. It strikes me as odd that their API wouldn't support something as simple as adding in another term.
If you're forced to do it the "hard way", there are two main steps:
1) Find and learn a JSON parsing library for Java. I can recommend Jackson -- fast, sturdy, and just released a version 1.0.0.
2) Teach your code to understand the spec the Google uses in their response. This is by far the most challenging part. My apologies, but I know nothing about Google's spec in this area. If you can find official docs, that's best. Or find unofficial docs published by someone else who had to do similar work. Otherwise, you may have to "reverse engineer".
Re. the google api docs: it does seem that what you're trying to do goes against the intention of Google to make their product (= a map) available to you, the developer, for your custom enhancement (by adding business outlet information or whatever). There's plenty of stuff on the Google maps API site describing this. But to parse their data (coming out of their database) and to display it independently of their product would seem to be rather different: section 10.12 of the terms explicitly cover this:
...code.google.com/intl/de/apis/maps/terms.html
However, there are apps out there (the "Around Me" iPhone app, for example) that seem to do just that: there might be a special arrangement between Google and Apple in that regard.
EDIT: alternatively you could look at this problem another way and use the Google Base API feed, since this allows you to build query strings specifying resource, distance, location etc. - i.e. it returns the data you require without using the Maps API (which you don't need anyway, given your description).