Method invocation

Capturing Method Arguments When Running Spock Tests

Learn how to capture method arguments using Spock’s Stubs, Mocks, and Spies using Closures.

Get All Results at Once in a Spring Boot Paged Query Method

Revisit how to retrieve data in pagination using Spring Boot how to retrieve all results at once using pagination

Printing Message on Console without Using main() Method in Java

Explore ways of printing messages without the main() method in Java.

Invoke Spring @Cacheable from Another Method of Same Bean

A quick and practical guide to invoking @Cacheable methods from other methods of the same bean in Spring.

Mock Same Method with Different Parameters

Learn how to mock a method in Java to receive different responses based on the parameters passed in.

Debugging Spring Method Annotations Using Lightrun

A practical guide to debugging Spring method annotations using Lightrun.

Spring @EnableMethodSecurity Annotation

Learn the main features of @EnableMethodSecurity and how it replaces @EnableGlobalMethodSecurity.

Use Cases for Static Methods in Java

Java allows us to declare functions as static. We look at what this means, how static functions differ from others, and some common use cases for preferring static functions.

Unit Test Private Methods in Java

Why it’s not a good idea to test a private method and how to do it if it’s extremely necessary.

Invoke a Static Method Using Java Reflection API

Learn how to invoke public and private static methods using the Java Reflection API

Spring @EnableWebSecurity vs. @EnableGlobalMethodSecurity

Spring Security in Spring Boot allows a couple of different approaches for setting access rights for our endpoints. We explore both the standard web security module and the JSR–250 approach here.