Tag: reflection

Taming a throttled API with Dynamic Proxies in Java

Jan 20, 2021

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Recently, at CleverTap, we’ve begun migrating some of our largest clusters to a new protocol (for starters, think ~115 instances at a time). One of the most fun things I’ve had my hands on during this migration was the AWS Systems Manager API. When we scaled up our migrations gradually from a 10 node cluster,…
How to get a File object of an Android raw resource using reflection

Jul 26, 2013

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Context: You have a URI to a resource which is placed in the raw directory inside the Android resources directory, res. Say you want to take that raw resource(let’s say it’s an image) and add it to an attachment using FIleBody to a MultiPartEntity. Both these classes are available in the Apache HTTP Components library. FileBody…