A fully working example and framework for building a multi-level Python application with a multi-level argument parsing. → Continue reading “A Multi-Level Python Argparse Example”
Category: Computers
All things computing.
VSCode Keyboard Shortcut to Navigate Between Split Panes
In general, I cannot stand using a mouse. It hurts my hand and takes up a ton of time having to move my hand from the keyboard, to the mouse, move the mouse, click, and then move back to the keyboard.
I am a relatively new VSCode user and was pleased that it has a really good vim emulator. I almost always write code in a split screen so that I can either see two different files at the same → Continue reading “VSCode Keyboard Shortcut to Navigate Between Split Panes”
[SOLVED] Deleting remote git branch; By default, deleting the current branch is denied, because the next remote: ‘git clone’ won’t result in any file checked out, causing confusion
This is a common error encountered where you are renaming your default branch for the repository. If you have a repo hosted on GitHub or some other third-party service, there is likely some way in the GUI to change the default branch for a repo.
If you are hosting your own internal git repository you will need to SSH to that server and “checkout” a different branch from the one that you are trying to delete. In reality, the remote → Continue reading “[SOLVED] Deleting remote git branch; By default, deleting the current branch is denied, because the next remote: ‘git clone’ won’t result in any file checked out, causing confusion”
[SOLVED] Upgrading Apache Kafka 2.7 to Java 11 Changes authenticationID sent to ZooKeeper Enabling Only 1 Kafka Broker to r/w znodes
The title of this post is a bit of mouthful and requires a bit more explanation.
I am running a pure open-source version of Kafka (currently running 2.7) and am using SASL/GSSAPI connections between all of the brokers and ZooKeeper. Currently, the whole system, including ZooKeeper, is running Java 8 and it is long-overdue to be upgraded to Java 11.
Upgrading Kafka to Java 11 causes the server to send an incorrect authenticationID String to ZooKeeper which results in the → Continue reading “[SOLVED] Upgrading Apache Kafka 2.7 to Java 11 Changes authenticationID sent to ZooKeeper Enabling Only 1 Kafka Broker to r/w znodes”
Baseline Settings for a VirtualBox Instance for a GUI under Debian 10
The following is a list of the basic VirtualBox settings to start with when using a VM with a GUI. Make sure that you have also installed the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack that is compatible with your version of VirtualBox and that you have installed the Guest Additions in the VM itself.
- System
- Motherboard
- 4+GB of RAM, or whatever you have available
- Processor
- 2+ CPU (if you have the available cores/threads)
- Motherboard
- Display
- As much Video Memory as you can
message=class configured for SSLContext: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$TLSContext not a SSLContext When Mocking Static Methods in Class
When mocking static classes with Junit4, Mockito and PowerMock, you may see the following log messages after annotating your test class if the code that you are testing is making HTTP connections:
message=class configured for SSLContext: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$TLSContext not a SSLContextYour annotations for the class (or method) typically include the following:
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({ SomeClassYouWantToMock.class })This may cause some confusion, especially if whatever other code that you may have ONLY uses HTTP. Add the following to your annotations to tell → Continue reading “message=class configured for SSLContext: sun.security.ssl.SSLContextImpl$TLSContext not a SSLContext When Mocking Static Methods in Class”
Creating a Counter or Progress Bar for a Python Program
I’ve written a number of Python apps where I would like it to print some sort of counter or progress bar to STDOUT to let me know that it is still running instead of locked up or died somehow without me being able to see it.
I had tried using a couple of different existing progress bar related modules but none of them really worked except in a very specific use case.
So, after a bit of futzing around I → Continue reading “Creating a Counter or Progress Bar for a Python Program”
How To Spy and Verify a Static Void Method in Java
The Mockito and PowerMockito libraries for JUnit4 are not always the most intuitive.
Following is an example of how to spy and verify a static void method.
@Test
public void testAdd() {
// Prepare the Utils class to be spied.
PowerMockito.spy(Utils.class);
// Run the test and get the actual value from the OUT
int actualValue = App.add("Test1", 1, 1);
/*
* To verify the number of times that we called Utils.doSomething we
* first need to tell the PowerMockito library Configuring rsyslog to rotate log files from log messages streamed to it from a Systemd service
In general, I have moved to writing all of my applications to write their log output to STDOUT. This makes running them on the command line, in an IDE, on a bare metal box, VM, or in a container completely decoupled from how you store and view the logs. No more having multiple logging configs for each flavor of deployment.
In this particular case, I am running an application in a container (but it isn’t necessary that it is in → Continue reading “Configuring rsyslog to rotate log files from log messages streamed to it from a Systemd service”
[SOLVED] Unable to Sign-In to Gmail with Thunderbird with OAuth2, Keeps Asking for Email or Phone Over and Over
If you are setting up Thunderbird to use your Gmail account you may find that when Thunderbird opens a new window to a Google web portal into which you are to provide your email address and password that it will keep asking you over and over again for your email and never enable to you to enter the password.
This occurs when Thunderbird’s privacy settings do not allow it to store cookies.
First, ensure that your gmail account has Allow → Continue reading “[SOLVED] Unable to Sign-In to Gmail with Thunderbird with OAuth2, Keeps Asking for Email or Phone Over and Over”