Written by Philipp on 2013-07-28
Adding LDAP Authentication to a Play! 2 Application
Hacking . Java . Play! Framework . ToolingAs of Play! 1 is not really supported anymore, i will describe the steps for accessing Data from your LDAP Directory with your Play! 2 with this Post. Prerequisites As also mentioned in my last Post, for this example we are using the Vagrant vagrant-rundeck-ldap VM, I already mentioned here. Setup After you setup a
Written by Philipp on 2013-07-28
Adding LDAP Authentication to a Play! 1 Application
Hacking . Play! Framework . ToolingYou will often find yourself in a situation where you need a public and a private (normally some Administration) Area in your application. This Post is about how easy you can access User Data stored in you companies LDAP Directory with a public availible Library in a Play! 1 Application. I will also give you
Written by Philipp on 2012-11-07
play-i18ned
Java . Play! Framework . ToolingThis Module provides support for converting Play! i18n Files into an Excel Sheet and from an Excel Sheet to i18n Files. Usage You need to create the message files first (e.g. conf/messages, conf/messages.de, conf/messages.en) You may enter some key/value entries to the Files. The prefered format is: # Description key=value Add the Module to your
Written by Philipp on 2012-10-20
Starting work on a new ZFS Web Admin
Freenas . Hacking . NAS . nexenta . Play! Framework . ToolingHello there. After the Stats showed me, that the ancient Post about a Web based ZFS Interfaces produces a lot attention, i decided to restart with that project from scratch. You can find the current sources here. I am currently working with the FreeBSD ZFS Version (so basically FreeNAS), but there are already some Test-Cases
Written by Philipp on 2012-05-29
Fixing Redirects of a Play! App behind an Apache2 SSL Proxy
Java . Network . Play! FrameworkSo you just finished your first Play! App. You want to run that thing behind an Apache2 as a HTTPS Proxy, because you do not want, that your User-Credentials are read as clear text. So a very basic Apache Configuration looks like this: <IfModule mod_ssl.c> Listen 443 SSLRandomSeed startup builtin SSLRandomSeed
Written by Philipp on 2012-05-12
Hacking just for Fun: using Bookmarklets
Hacking . Javascript . Play! Framework . SnippetsSo there are a handful of webtools using Bookmarklets for their services. The first i know was del.icio.us for saving a Webpage to your del.icio.us bookmarks. Another famous service is Instapaper (it uses internally read it later pocket, but that is another Story). I have a special service in mind, i want to create using
Written by Philipp on 2012-03-21
Run local/remote terminal commands with java using ssh
Java . Network . Play! Framework . SnippetsSometimes you need to use some CLI-Tools before you want to create or search for a native JNI Binding. So there is a common way, using the Java Process-Class. But then you might meet two problems i had to face in the past during several problems: There are (a really small) number of CLI-Tools, that
Written by Philipp on 2012-02-19
Counter Update
DB . Java . Play! FrameworkI just finished my latest improvements to the legacy version of my counter script. I just added the lookup for ISPs and added dynamic scaling for the axis legend. I will now going forward to change the whole system to a more sophisticated software, e.g. using a Datawarehouse approach. The first version of the Data-Model
Written by Philipp on 2012-01-03
Testing Play! Applications with HTTP Basic Auth
Java . Play! FrameworkUm eine Play!-Anwendung zu testen, welche HTTP-Basic-Auth verlangt ist es notwendig, die Standard-Datei ApplicationTest.java anzupassen: Verändert werden muss die Test-Methode testThatIndexPageWorks(): Aus @Test public void testThatIndexPageWorks() { Response response = GET(“/”); assertIsOk(response); assertContentType(“text/html”, response); assertCharset(play.Play.defaultWebEncoding, response); } Wird: @Test public void testThatIndexPageWorks() { Request request = FunctionalTest.newRequest(); request.user = “test”; request.password = “test”; request.url =
Written by Philipp on 2012-01-03
Play! Applications und der App-Context
Java . Play! FrameworkEs ist möglich, eine Play!-Anwendung sehr einfach in eine WAR-Struktur zu übertragen und in einen Application-Server zu deployen. Dies ist recht gut unter Deployment options in der Play!-Dokumentation recht gut erklärt. Was hier allerdings verschwiegen wird ist, wie man den notwendigen Context beim Routing konfiguriert. (Der Context ist der Pfad der Anwendung, welcher standardmäßig vom