Maven Central is the most used repository for Java artifacts. Almost every Gradle file starts with:
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
// maybe other repos here Yet publishing with Sontatype, OSSHR and Nexus (this article explains the terms really well) is a very slow and painful process:
Yes this is another guide on how to publish Android artifacts to Maven Central. Unlike other guides, it does cover extra “things” though:
withSourcesJar).
This is the fourth part of my series on Kotlin based backend services.
If you missed the first three parts:
In every language a "dedicated" engineer can write code that is hard to read and harder to maintain, Kotlin is no exception. …
This is the third part of my series on Kotlin based backend services.
If you missed the first two parts:
Defining routes in Ktor is simple and very concise due to the DSL. To…
This is the second part of my series on Kotlin based backend services.
If you missed the first part: An opinionated Kotlin backend service — Framework.
I had four main requirements for the build system:
This article series explains the scaffolding for Kotlin / Ktor based backend services. It elaborates on the following topics:
As part of my series “An opinionated Kotlin backend service”, I was researching ways to generate OpenAPI documentation automatically (the problem). Before explaining how to generate api documentation from code (the solution), I will give a short overview of different approaches to generating such documentation.
OpenAPI is the standard to…
As part of my series “An opinionated Kotlin backend service”, I was checking out different ways to serialize/deserialize JSON payloads.
According to https://ktor.io/docs/serialization.html these are the supported converters:
I tested #1 and #3 and because I like challenges from time to time I threw Moshi into the…
As part of my series An opinionated Kotlin backend service, I was checking out several libraries to validate client requests.
My requirement was to use a Kotlin library to have a concise and fluent API without the typical Java verbosity (thus none of these made it onto my list: http://java-source.net/open-source/validation).
