Reverse 2048

Reverse 2048  - A new android app from me.

This is a fun, addictive and a puzzle board game. It is a cool variant of traditional 2048 puzzle game.

The challenge is to reach from the #2048 tile to #1 tile. When tile with number 1 is created, the player wins the game.

Click here for more details of the app.

How to invoke HTTP methods like PUT,PATCH and DELETE using HttpURLConnection

     I am invoking REST web services using HttpURLConnection. Few of the rest services have operations like PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. While passing these methods in setRequestMethod() of HttpURLConnection object, I am getting the below error in response.

java.net.ProtocolException: Invalid HTTP method: PATCH

     To avoid this error and to let the HttpURLConnection execute these methods, there is a workaround which is to override the http method we are invoking. And the procedure to do it is,

• Invoke any accepted http method like GET or POST
• Pass the new method value to the header parameter "X-HTTP-Method-Override" to Override the method 

Below is the example: 

            URL url = new URL(mcsPatchAPIURL);

            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");

            conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");

            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");

            conn.setRequestProperty("X-HTTP-Method-Override", "PATCH");

To get an idea about these methods:

GET: To get the details of a resource

PUT: To update the existing resource

POST: To create a new resource

PATCH: To update the existing resource partially

DELETE: To delete the existing resource

Cordova Plugin is not added to Oracle MAF

Issue:
I faced an issue where I could not able to add few cordova plugins to Oracle MAF application. I could able to select the plugin but after selected, it is not added to MAF and not showing any error also.

Solution:
Check the value of the attribute xmlns of the tag plugin in the plugin.xml file under the corddova plugin folder. Generally it is

xmlns="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/plugins/1.0"

Change the value to as below
xmlns="http://apache.org/cordova/ns/plugins/1.0"

Now re-try to add the plugin to MAF.