Category Archives: Guides

View Raw SQL in EF Core – Simple Option

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been looking for a simple way of viewing the raw output of sql in my local environment without having to make code changes and came across the following config setup:

{
“Logging”: {
“LogLevel”: {
“Default”: “Debug”,
“System”: “Information”,
“Microsoft”: “Information”
}
}

This will show the sql statements in your output window without requiring any additional code:
sql-output

Thanks to this stackoverflow post for the answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54704006/522859

Simple React-Leaflet Location Picker Setup

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Hi everyone,

Just thought I’d share a very simple react-leaflet setup in case it’s able to help anyone.

screencast-localhost_3889-2019.08.24-14_01_41.gif

Add the css and javascript for leaflet to public > index.html:

  
https://unpkg.com/leaflet@1.5.1/dist/leaflet.js">https://unpkg.com/leaflet@1.5.1/dist/leaflet.js

Install react-leaflet via npm or yarn, also add the dependencies:

npm install react-leaflet # npm
npm install leaflet react react-dom # npm

yarn add react-leaflet # Yarn
yarn add leaflet react react-dom # Yarn

Create the map component:

import React, { useState } from 'react'
import { Map, TileLayer, Marker, Popup } from 'react-leaflet'


const MapSimple = () => {

    const [location, setLocation] = useState({
        lat: 51.505,
        lng: -0.09,
        zoom: 13,
    });
    const position = [location.lat, location.lng];
    
    const setMarkerPosition = e => {
        setLocation({ ...e.latlng, zoom: 19 });
        console.log(`My location is: ${JSON.stringify(e.latlng, null, 3)}`)
    };

    return (
        
            <TileLayer
                attribution='© OpenStreetMap contributors'
                url="https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
            />
            
                
                   A sample popup.
                
            
        
    )
}

export default MapSimple;

NetTopologySuite Circular Reference with .net core 2.2

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Hey everyone,

Testing out a spatial project with .net core and I ran into the following error:

Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException : The best overloaded method match for ‘Xunit.Assert.Equal(string, string)’ has some invalid arguments

at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Type , Nullable`1 , Object )
at UpdateDelegates.UpdateAndExecuteVoid3[T0,T1,T2](CallSite site, T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2)
at DiscussionsControllerIntegrationTests.CreateTestDiscussion(HttpClient client, ApplicationDbContext db, DiscussionCreateWebRequest payload) in DiscussionsControllerIntegrationTests.cs line: 56
at DiscussionsControllerIntegrationTests.b__1_0(ApplicationDbContext db) in DiscussionsControllerIntegrationTests.cs line: 27
at IntegrationTestBase.RunTest(Func`2 testToExecute) in IntegrationTestBase.cs line: 54
at DiscussionsControllerIntegrationTests.CreateDiscussionIsSuccessful() in DiscussionsControllerIntegrationTests.cs line: 25
at — End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown —

Thankfully the solution is pretty straight forward. Install GeoJSON:

Install-Package NetTopologySuite.IO.GeoJSON

Then merge the following with your existing addMvc call in startup.cs:

services.AddMvc(options =>
            {
                // Prevent the following exception: 'This method does not support GeometryCollection arguments'
                // See: https://github.com/npgsql/Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL/issues/585
                options.ModelMetadataDetailsProviders.Add(new SuppressChildValidationMetadataProvider(typeof(Point)));
                options.ModelMetadataDetailsProviders.Add(new SuppressChildValidationMetadataProvider(typeof(Coordinate)));
                options.ModelMetadataDetailsProviders.Add(new SuppressChildValidationMetadataProvider(typeof(LineString)));
                options.ModelMetadataDetailsProviders.Add(new SuppressChildValidationMetadataProvider(typeof(MultiLineString)));
            })
                .AddJsonOptions(options =>
                {
                    foreach (var converter in NetTopologySuite.IO.GeoJsonSerializer.Create(new GeometryFactory(new PrecisionModel(), 4326)).Converters)
                    {
                        options.SerializerSettings.Converters.Add(converter);
                    }
                })
                .SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_2);

String to Color – Avatar Helpers

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Hi everyone,

A quick post on a helper function I came across for generating avatars. This function generates a random color for the specified string:


export const stringToColor = string => {

let hash = 0;
let i;

for (i = 0; i < string.length; i += 1) {
hash = string.charCodeAt(i) + ((hash << 5) - hash);
}

let colour = '#';

for (i = 0; i > (i * 8)) & 0xff;
colour += `00${value.toString(16)}`.substr(-2);
}

return colour;
}

Thanks to oliviertassinari: https://github.com/oliviertassinari/SplitMe/blob/c25fe62187a856386fd0c43c51859d6f973d651e/src/main/member/Avatar.js#L8-L26

Move Selection to Single Line – Visual Code

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Hi everyone,

A quick post on how to merge a multiline block into a single line using Visual Studio Code:

-- From this
CREATE TABLE posts
(
    post_id INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
    title VARCHAR(100),
    description VARCHAR(MAX),
    user_id VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    created DATETIME NOT NULL,
    updated DATETIME NOT NULL,
    version INT NOT NULL,
    up_votes INT NOT NULL,
    down_votes INT NOT NULL,
    updated DATETIME NOT NULL
);

-- To this
CREATE TABLE posts ( post_id INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY, title VARCHAR(100), description VARCHAR(MAX), user_id VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, created DATETIME NOT NULL, updated DATETIME NOT NULL, version INT NOT NULL, up_votes INT NOT NULL, down_votes INT NOT NULL, updated DATETIME NOT NULL )

Simply highlight your code block, press F1, and then type “join lines”. Pressing enter will join everything. If you’re on a mac you can also use ctrl+j.

Overriding Global Variables – AWS SAM Local

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Hi everyone,

Today I’ve added local overrides to the global variables in my template.yml file. This was pretty finicky – a lot of conflicting suggestions out there unfortunately. These are the settings that ended up working for me.

local-env-var-overrides.json:

{
    "Parameters": {
        "RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST": "192.168.0.31"
    }
}

template.yaml

Globals:
  Function:
    Environment:
      Variables:        
        RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST:
          Type: String
          Default: 'DEFAULT'

aws sam local command:

sam local start-api --env-vars "local-env-var-overrides.json"

create.js

exports.createTrapHandler = async (event, context, callback) => {

	try {

        console.log("RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST: " + process.env.RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST)
        // Outputs: 192.168.0.31

This link ended up being pretty useful: https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-sam-local

Get User Id in Lambda node.js

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Hi everyone,

A quick post on where to find the user id (sub) in a lambda requested that has been authenticated with a congito authorizer.

You’ll be able to find everything you need in the event object under requestContext > authorizer > claims:


exports.viewContextHandler = async (event, context, callback) => {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(event.requestContext));
}

"requestContext": {
    "resourceId": "XXXXX",
    "authorizer": {
        "claims": {
            "at_hash": "XXXXX",
            "sub": "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX",
            "aud": "XXXXX12341234512345XXXXX",
            "email_verified": "true",
            "token_use": "id",
            "auth_time": "1547371205",
            "iss": "https://cognito-XXXXX.com/XXXXX",
            "cognito:username": "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX",
            "exp": "Sun Jan 13 10:20:05 UTC 2019",
            "iat": "Sun Jan 13 09:20:05 UTC 2019",
            "email": "XXXXX@XXXXX.XXXXX"
        }
    },
}