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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By : Alexey Soshin
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By: Alexey Soshin

Overview of this book

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing you with proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers. The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns of creational, structural, and behavioral families, before heading into functional programming. It then takes you through reactive and concurrent patterns, teaching you about using streams, threads, and coroutines to write better code along the way By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Working with databases

We won't be able to progress much further without the ability to save our objects, namely cats, into some kind of persistent storage.

For that, we'll need to connect to the database first.

Add the following two lines to your build.gradle dependencies section:

compile group: 'org.postgresql', name: 'postgresql', version: '42.2.2'
compile group: 'io.vertx', name: 'vertx-jdbc-client', version: $vertx_version

The first line of code fetches the PostgreSQL driver. The second one adds the Vert.x JDBC client, which allows Vert.x, having the driver, to connect to any database that supports JDBC.

Managing configuration

Now we want to hold database configuration...