UTF-8 character problem with JIRA Application link

I have created a JIRA, and a Confluence add-on. They communicated with each other via REST API, using the Application link interface. I needed to call a REST function, implemented in my own JIRA add-on, from the Confluence add-on.   It worked fine until any of the REST parameters contains a non ASCII character. In…

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Multiton design pattern

  The Multiton pattern is a design pattern similar to the singleton, which allows only one instance of a class to be created. The Multiton pattern expands on the singleton concept to manage a map of named instances as key-value pairs. Rather than having a single instance per virtual machine, the Multiton pattern instead ensures a single instance…

Using JIRA REST API via Restclient.

While implementing JIRA plugins, I recently had to use JIRA REST API to create and modify issues. As I did not want to install any desktop application, I decided to use the RESTclient plug-in for Firefox. It provides a very convenient way to deal with REST requests, and makes it possible to try out your…

Lazy initialization design pattern

Creational design pattern "... lazy initialization is the tactic of delaying the creation of an object, the calculation of a value, or some other expensive process until the first time it is needed." Lazy init can be triggered by calling the assessor method of an object started at a low priority background thread at application startup…

Code templates for Eclipse

In my daily work, I found very productive to use my own code templates for Eclipse. By the time, I have collected a useful set of templates. You can define your own templates by opening the dialog under Preferences\Java\Editor\Templates Defining templates is quite straightforward. If you need a detailed introduction, please refer to the following…

Using reflection in setup phase of unit testing

It is  a common practice to use mock framework in the setup phase of a unit test, in order to set the internal state of the dependent objects. Sometimes it is though easier to set a value of a given field directly, in order to test the class accordingly. For modifying field value via reflection,…