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Hi Friends, Recently in one of the project I was working on, had a long web page and updates used to happen only through ajax calls that means no page refresh. The status messages used to appear on the top of the page, the user had no way but to scroll up to see the status message. There we thought of using floating message that always...
Hi Friends, I was going through grails docs, encountered a method called load(), found it really useful thought would share with you. What load() does is, it creates a proxy object and doesn't retrieve the record from the database until property other than id is accessed. Let us consider a scenario, where we have id of a Object...
Hi Friends, I have released version 0.2.3 of remote-pagination plugin, which includes an option to enable user to change page sizes out of the given options. As given in the documentation, lets have a look at the example below : //Example Domain: class Book { String title String author } //Example controller: class...
Hi Friends, I needed to validate password for certain conditions. As per the requirements, any valid must password must pass the following conditions: Minimum of 7 characters Must have numbers and letters Must have at least a one special characters- "!,@,#,$,%,&,*,(,),+" I wrote the following method to meet the...
Through my blog, I will discuss about sending JSON objects with ajax request using JQuery. We have number of functions in jQuery to kick-off an ajax request. But for sending JSON objects along with the request, I chose jQuer.ajax(). It takes various parameters url, type, data, dataType, beforeSend etc. Its API can be found here. Lets...
Hi Friends, I always used to think how jQuery provides the chaining mechanism, must be something really complex so never cared to find it out. Though there was a desire to to use the same concept in my own custom javascript functions. Recently I realised how easy it is, so thought would share with you with the help of an example. ...
Hi Friends, To retrieve difference between two dates with finer details which would display their difference as 2 years 7 weeks 3 days 2 hours 5 mins ago is given below. /** * Returns differnce b/w new Date and old date as Map holding difference in years, weeks, days, hrs, mins & secs */ public static Map...
Hi Friends, I always used to spend lot of time writing integration tests as running even a single test involves loading the complete application, which includes loading complete database every time. Then I realized that data which I use for testing is always the same, why can't we restore the database once created, before we run the...
Hi Friends, I needed to take the backup and restore the selected table(s) of mysql database. And I found Gaurav Chauhan's blog on taking dump of the database and to restore the database. So I tried with the same commands but with table names passed as parameters and that worked. mysqldump -u root -p my_database Table1 Table2 >...