How to Remove all Unused imports in a Java file - Eclipse Shortcut

How to remove all unused imports in Eclipse

Eclipse IDE gives warning "The import XXX is never used" whenever it detects unused import in a Java source file and shows a yellow underline. Though unused import in Java file does not create any harm, it's unnecessary increase length and size of Java source file and if you have too many unused imports in your Java source file, those yellow underline and Eclipse warning affect readability and working. In my last post on Eclipse, we have seen some Java debugging tips on Eclipse and in this post, we will see Eclipse shortcut to remove all unused imports in Eclipse. There are many options to tackle this problem e.g. you can collapse import section of code in Eclipse or you can altogether remove all unused imports from Java file, and we'll see them in this short tutorial.

How to find Length of String in SQL Server? LEN() Function Example

One of the most common task while writing SQL queries or stored procedure is to find the length of String. Since most of the columns are VARCHAR, you often need to find the length before taking any action. In Java, you can find the length of String by using the length() method but how about SQL Server? How will you find the length of String in Microsoft SQL Server in general and Microsoft SQL Server 2016 in particular? Well, you can use the LEN() function to find the length of a String value in SQL Server, for example, LEN(emp_name) will give you the length of values stored in the column emp_name. This method exists from SQL Server 2008 onwards which means you can use this function in SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016 and latest version of Microsoft SQL Server i.e. SQL Server 2017.

How to Solve UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field, not marked as ignorable - JSON Parsing Error using Jackson

While parsing JSON string received from one of our RESTful web services, I was getting this error "Exception in thread "main" com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "person" (class Hello$Person), not marked as ignorable". After some research, I found that this is one of the common error while parsing JSON document using Jackson open source library in Java application. The error messages say that it is not able to find a suitable property name called "person" in our case, let's first take a look at the JSON we are trying to parse, the class we are using to represent the JSON document and the error message itself.

Error Message:
Exception in thread "main" com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.UnrecognizedPropertyException: Unrecognized field "person" (class Hello$Person), not marked as ignorable (4 known properties: , "id", "city", "name", "phone"])

JUnit Testing Tips - Constructor is Called Before Executing Test Methods

Even though almost all Java programmers either use JUnit or TestNG for there unit testing need along with some mock object generation libraries e.g. Mockito, but not everyone spends time and effort to learn subtle details of these testing libraries, at least not in proportion of any popular framework like Spring or Hibernate. In this blog post, I am sharing one of such detail, which has puzzled me a couple of years ago. At that time, though I had been using JUnit for a significant time, I wasn't aware that code written inside the constructor of Test class is executed before each test method.  This behavior of JUnit has caused, some of my test to failed and putting hours of investigation in my code, without realizing that this is happening because of JUnit is initializing the object by calling constructor before executing test method annotated with @Test annotation.