Remove last char in vi

Following Linux commands can be used to replace last character in vi editor.

1. Open file using vi editor
2. Run the following command to replace last char

:%s/.$//g

3. Save file using :wq!

Create soft link in Linux

Suppose you want to create shortcuts in Linux, you can use 'ln -s' command to create soft links.

Ex :- If you need to run JAVA6 and JAVA8 both from terminal, you have to add java6 and java8 commands to /usr/bin for terminal execution.

Steps to keep java6 and java8.

1. Create two files in /usr/bin/ as java6 and java8
2. Extract JAVA6 and JAVA8 to Linux file system. Suppose directory locations are /usr/java6/ and /usr/java8/
3. Create Soft links for java6 and java8 using the following commands as root.

ln -s /usr/java8/jdk1.6.0_10/bin/java /usr/bin/java6

ln -s /usr/java8/jdk1.8.0_12/bin/java /usr/bin/java8

Now check versions using following commands in terminal.

java6 -version
java8 -version

Timestamp format in MySQL

This inbuilt MySQL command can be used to cast timestamp values as required.

SELECT DATE_FORMAT('field_name', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s') FROM 'table_name'

Above SQL will format timestamp in "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" format. If you require only date you can format timestamp as following SQL.

SELECT DATE_FORMAT('field_name', '%Y-%m-%d') FROM 'table_name'

Add number of days to timestamp in MySQL

Following DATE_ADD('field_name', INTERVAL) can be used to increase the number of days in the 'field_name' in MySQL databases. 

SELECT SQL

SELECT DATE_ADD('field_name', INTERVAL 2 DAY)FROM 'table_name';

Update SQL

UPDATE 'table_name'
SET field_name= DATE_ADD('field_name' , INTERVAL 2 DAY)
WHERE 'id' = 1;

Change enum values by passing values

Following code can be used to change the enum return value as required by passing parameters.

import java.text.MessageFormat;

public enum Errors {
     USERNAME_NOT_FOUND("User not found"),
     USERNAME_EXISTS("Username {0} already exists."),
     USERNAME_CONTAINS_INVALID_CHARS("Username {0} contains invalid characters {1}.");

     private final String message;

     Errors(String message) {
          this.message = message;
     }

     @Override
     public String toString() {
          return message;
     }

     public String getMessage(Object... args) {
          return MessageFormat.format(message, args);
     }
      
     public static void main(String args[]) {

System.out.println(Errors.USERNAME_NOT_FOUND);          System.out.println(Errors.USERNAME_EXISTS.getMessage("username"));  System.out.println(Errors.USERNAME_CONTAINS_INVALID_CHARS.getMessage("us%ername", "%"));

     }
}

Run different main classes from one project in JAVA

You can use following command to run different classes from one project jar file. Suppose Runner1 and Runner2 are main classes. You want to run both in separately, then you can use the following commands.

java -cp App.jar foo.Runner1

java -cp App.jar foo.Runner2

Call Username/Password enabled web service in JAVA

In this case, web service is secured with username and password authentication using WS-Security. Following code is used to generated SOAP message header to create security token to call web service.

RetailerAppWS appWS = new RetailerAppWS();
        RetailerAppWSPortType retailerAppWSPortType = appWS.getRetailerAppWSHttpsSoap11Endpoint();
        BindingProvider bindingProvider = (BindingProvider) retailerAppWSPortType;
        @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
        List handlerChain = new ArrayList();
        handlerChain.add(new WSSecurityHeaderSOAPHandler("Retailer", "Retailer123"));
        bindingProvider.getBinding().setHandlerChain(handlerChain);

        PayBill payBill = new PayBill();
        payBill.setAmount(1.0);
        payBill.setPin("9834");
        payBill.setReceiver("1234567890");
        payBill.setUser("sujith");

        PayBillResponse pbr = retailerAppWSPortType.payBill(payBill);

In the above code, it is created a WSSecurityHeaderSOAPHandler to manipulate the SOAP message to add security token to SOAP header.

WSSecurityHeaderSOAPHandler is shown below. This code will re-generate the SOAP message.

public class WSSecurityHeaderSOAPHandler implements SOAPHandler {

    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_PASSWORD = "Password";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_NONCE = "Nonce";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_USERNAME = "Username";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_Created = "Created";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_Expires = "Expires";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_USERNAME_TOKEN = "UsernameToken";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_Timestamp_TOKEN = "Timestamp";
    private static final String SOAP_ELEMENT_SECURITY = "Security";
    private static final String NAMESPACE_SECURITY = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd";
    private static final String PREFIX_SECURITY = "wsse";
    private static final String NAMESPACE_WSU = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd";
    private static final String PREFIX_WSU = "wsu";
    private static final String NAMESPACE_TYPE = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_TYPE = "Type";
    private static final String NAMESPACE_EncodingType = "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-soap-message-security-1.0#Base64Binary";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_EncodingType = "EncodingType";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_MustUnderstand ="mustUnderstand";

    private String usernameText;
    private String passwordText;

    public WSSecurityHeaderSOAPHandler(String usernameText, String passwordText) {
        this.usernameText = usernameText;
        this.passwordText = passwordText;
    }

    public boolean handleMessage(SOAPMessageContext soapMessageContext) {

        Boolean outboundProperty = (Boolean) soapMessageContext.get(MessageContext.MESSAGE_OUTBOUND_PROPERTY);

        if (outboundProperty.booleanValue()) {

            try {
                SOAPEnvelope soapEnvelope = soapMessageContext.getMessage().getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();

                SOAPHeader header = soapEnvelope.getHeader();
                if (header == null) {
                    header = soapEnvelope.addHeader();
                }

                SOAPElement soapElementSecurityHeader = header.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_SECURITY, PREFIX_SECURITY,
                        NAMESPACE_SECURITY);
                soapElementSecurityHeader.addAttribute(soapEnvelope.createName(ATTRIBUTE_MustUnderstand), "1");
                soapElementSecurityHeader.addNamespaceDeclaration(PREFIX_WSU, NAMESPACE_WSU);

                SOAPElement soapElementUsernameToken = soapElementSecurityHeader.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_USERNAME_TOKEN, PREFIX_SECURITY);
                SOAPElement soapElementUsername = soapElementUsernameToken.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_USERNAME, PREFIX_SECURITY);
                soapElementUsername.addTextNode(usernameText);

                SOAPElement soapElementPassword = soapElementUsernameToken.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_PASSWORD, PREFIX_SECURITY);
                soapElementPassword.addAttribute(soapEnvelope.createName(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE), NAMESPACE_TYPE);
                soapElementPassword.addTextNode(passwordText);

                SOAPElement soapElementUserCreated = soapElementUsernameToken.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_Created, PREFIX_WSU);
                long created = System.currentTimeMillis();

                TimeZone timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
                Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(timeZone);
                SimpleDateFormat sdfu
                        = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'", Locale.US);
                sdfu.setTimeZone(timeZone);

                String dateu = sdfu.format(calendar.getTime());
                soapElementUserCreated.addTextNode(dateu);

                SOAPElement soapElementNonce = soapElementUsernameToken.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_NONCE, PREFIX_SECURITY);
                soapElementNonce.addAttribute(soapEnvelope.createName(ATTRIBUTE_EncodingType), NAMESPACE_EncodingType);
                soapElementNonce.addTextNode(createNonce(created));

                SOAPElement soapElementTimestampToken = soapElementSecurityHeader.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_Timestamp_TOKEN, PREFIX_WSU);
                SOAPElement soapElementCreated = soapElementTimestampToken.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_Created, PREFIX_WSU);

                soapElementCreated.addTextNode(dateu);

                calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + 2);

                SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
                String date2 = sdf2.format(calendar.getTime());
                SOAPElement soapElementExpires = soapElementTimestampToken.addChildElement(SOAP_ELEMENT_Expires, PREFIX_WSU);
                soapElementExpires.addTextNode(date2);

            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Error on wsSecurityHandler: " + e.getMessage());
            }

        }

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void close(MessageContext context) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    }

    @Override
    public boolean handleFault(SOAPMessageContext context) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public Set getHeaders() {

        final QName securityHeader = new QName(
                NAMESPACE_SECURITY, SOAP_ELEMENT_SECURITY, PREFIX_SECURITY);

        final HashSet headers = new HashSet();
        headers.add(securityHeader);
        return headers;
    }

    public String createNonce(long value) throws Exception {
        java.security.SecureRandom random = java.security.SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
        random.setSeed(value);
        byte[] nonceBytes = new byte[16];
        random.nextBytes(nonceBytes);
        String nonce = new String(org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64(nonceBytes), "UTF-8");
        return nonce;
    }

}

NOTE :- Timestamp must be in UTC format. NONCE value must generated as above.