Category Archives: Code Pranger

swagger-codegen 2.3.0 Breaks Inheritance?

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Mathias

For a hack day at work, I’ve been trying to integrate our code generator into the online Swagger editor and generator. Of course, I’ve been trying to use the latest version, which appears to be 2.3.0-SNAPSHOT (although I just saw … Continue reading →

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Query API with startId, endId, and count

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Mathias

I recently had to write a query API for items in a service. Each item has a numerical, consecutively increasing integer as identifier. Therefore, it made sense to allow callers to specify a range. It also makes sense to specify … Continue reading →

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Backing Out Changes and Fixing Things

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Mathias

Let’s say we have three people: Adam, Bob, and Charlie. Adam submits a change, which later turns out to be bad. Bob submits a somewhat unrelated change. Charlie realizes that Adam’s change is bad and backs it out. That, however, … Continue reading →

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String Comparisons for Common Words Are Bad

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Mathias

It has been a long time since the last item went on the code pranger. I’ve pulled my hair out over many things during the last months, but this is the first time in a long while that I slapped … Continue reading →