Kotlin

Condensing Tests in Kotlin : Dependencies

My current team maintains an application built using Spring and Kotlin. We have several thousand unit and integration tests. I’m a big fan of condensing code as much as possible, so long as it remains legibile. A lot of our older integration tests in particular take the following form: Using default Kotlin formatting, the dependencies for the tests take up 3 lines each. This could …

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Switching from Essentials4J to Kotlin

At work we have a project that used Essentials4J, and its predecessor Rapidoid Fluent, to simplify some stream/collection APIs. We have been converting this project to Kotlin, and no longer need that library. The conversion was very simple. It highlights some of the things you can do with collections with Kotlin’s standard library. Do.group(…).by(…) Do.map(…).to(…) Do.map(…).to(…) with unique values d639a7ccf9252433