Just a few gists to park here for later reference.

Signing oAuth 1.0 request

To work with Twitter Ads API, need to use OAuth 1.0. There’s a nice little snippet of Java here, but there’s an issue with it. After chasing some red herrings due to Postman collections, the problem is that query string is not properly encoded. Fixed code to do that for query parameters (while still missing params from request body because I don’t need them now) and adding nonce generation at this gist.

Maven dependencies diff

Having run into problems where , here is a pom-compare.py script that compares two pom.xml files giving the difference in dependencies. Given two files — current that may have a problem, and one from a known good project — this script will show which dependencies in the problematic file may be older than needed, or are entirely missing.

Generic code for Google Ads API query

Using Google Ads API involves a lot of code that follows certain patterns (mutates, operations, builders, etc). As a fan of all things meta, including reflection, I just had to make a generic example of doing that. So now a parameterized invocation can be used in place of, for example, both campaign or ad group creation code. A similar approach can be done for update, of course.

Mocking DB calls

Using Mockito, it is quite easy to mock up a set of DB calls. For example, here’s a mock ResultSet backed by a Map.

Jar diff

Who hasn’t needed to diff JARs? Thanks to procyon, this is easy.