Tuesday 31 March 2015

My git cheatsheet


Rebase changes from the master onto current branch

Fetch changes first
git fetch

Rebase
git rebase origin/master

Push
git push origin yourbranchname -f

Branches

Rename/move branch
git branch -m <oldname> <newname>


Tags

Add a tag
git tag -a v1.2 -m 'my annotation for v1.2'

Push the tag:
git push origin v1.2


Diverges
Solutions other than normal merge / mergetool workflow

Hard reset to the origin
git reset --hard origin/branchname

Fixing diverge by deleting branch (loosing you changes)
Checkout master:
git checkout master

Delete diverged branch (dispose all local changes):
git branch -D branchname

Checkout branch back:
git checkout branchname

Fixing diverge by hard reset to some particular commit (loosing you changes)
git reset --hard g00dcmid
assume that you're currently at diverged branch and g00dcmid is a last commit before diverge
please be aware that it will revert all files in the INDEX and in the WORKDIR

Reverts

revert a commit
git revert c0mm1tid
notice, that this will revert this particular commit, not revert to this commit

delete local commits
git reset --hard <commit or branch>

Search

search in commit names
git log --all --grep='some stuff'
--all means - search in all branches

search in patches / diffs (Pickaxe)
git log -S "text to find"
it is also possible to add -p option to list actual diffs

Diffs

show staged diff
git diff --cached

add only non white-space changes
git diff -w --no-color | git apply --cached --ignore-whitespace

Local User
Define a user for single repository:
git config user.email "your@mail.com"
git config user.name "Your Name"

Monday 23 March 2015

Monday 9 March 2015

Sending iOS push notifications from JAVA

This example presumes that you've already registered your device for Push Notifications and retrieved the device token from the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) on the iOS side.
The code below uses the https://github.com/notnoop/java-apns Java library to send notifications to the APNS server.

The code

Suggested files structure:
src/main/java/PushNotifications.java - simple java class to send notifications
src/main/resources/dev_cert.p12 - development certificate
src/main/resources/prod_cert.p12 - production certificate
pom.xml - maven config

pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>PushNotifications</groupId>
    <artifactId>PushNotifications</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.notnoop.apns</groupId>
            <artifactId>apns</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0.Beta6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.7</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>

PushNotifications.java:
import com.notnoop.apns.APNS;
import com.notnoop.apns.ApnsService;
import com.notnoop.apns.ApnsServiceBuilder;

public class PushNotifications {

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        System.out.println("Sending an iOS push notification...");

        String token = "";
        String type = "dev";
        String message = "the test push notification message";

        try {
            token = args[0];
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Usage: PushNotifications devicetoken [message] [type prod|dev]");
            System.out.println("example: PushNotifications 1testdevicetoken3eb414627e78991ac5a615b4a2a95454c6ba5d18930ac137 'hi there!' prod");
            return;
        }
        try {
            message = args[1];
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("no message defined, using '"+message+"'");
        }
        try {
            type = args[2];
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("no API type defined, using "+type);
        }

        System.out.println("The target token is "+token);

        ApnsServiceBuilder serviceBuilder = APNS.newService();

        if (type.equals("prod")) {
            System.out.println("using prod API");
            String certPath = PushNotifications.class.getResource("prod_cert.p12").getPath();
            serviceBuilder.withCert(certPath, "password")
                    .withProductionDestination();
        } else if (type.equals("dev")) {
            System.out.println("using dev API");
            String certPath = PushNotifications.class.getResource("dev_cert.p12").getPath();
            serviceBuilder.withCert(certPath, "password")
                    .withSandboxDestination();
        } else {
            System.out.println("unknown API type "+type);
            return;
        }

        ApnsService service = serviceBuilder.build();


        //Payload with custom fields
        String payload = APNS.newPayload()
                .alertBody(message)
                .alertTitle("test alert title")
                .sound("default")
                .customField("custom", "custom value").build();

        ////Payload with custom fields
        //String payload = APNS.newPayload()
        //        .alertBody(message).build();

        ////String payload example:
        //String payload = "{\"aps\":{\"alert\":{\"title\":\"My Title 1\",\"body\":\"My message 1\",\"category\":\"Personal\"}}}";


        System.out.println("payload: "+payload);
        service.push(token, payload);

        System.out.println("The message has been hopefully sent...");
    }
}
Compile the code:
>mvn compile

Run the code:
>mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="PushNotifications" -Dexec.args="1testdevicetoken3eb414627e789ba5d18930ac137 'My test iOS push notification!' dev"

Getting certificates from the Apple
Certificates are quite tricky and confusing part of iOS push notifications.

1. First of all we need to create a SigningRequest
Keychain Access -> Certificate Assistant -> Request a certificate from a Certificate Authority
Enter the apple dev email into the Certificate Assistant form, select the "Save to disk" radio
Save the Signing Request onto the disk (don't forget to give it some reasonable name);

2. Go to the developer.apple.com/account/ios/
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles > App IDs > [the app id] > Edit > Push notifications >
Production SSL Certificate > Create / Create Additional,
ensure that Push Notifications enabled for your app,
Generate a new certificate using the SigningRequest from 1.
Download the generated certificate;

3. (on the Mac) Double click the certificate to import into the keychain;

4. Locate the Certificate in the Keychain Access, expand it to see the Key inside,
right click and Export "keyname"...
Save the p12 file;

5. Notice that after regenerating your certificates you need to refresh your provisioning profiles and use them to deploy your app. In xCode go to Preferences -> Accounts, selet your dev apple-id, click "View Details", do refresh. It is not going to be a problem, if you generated the certeficates before getting to code.

Links
If you use the PHP on you server, you may find the link below useful:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1