Fixing VLC No Suitable Decoder Module For Video Format undf

Today, I tried to play a video with .mkv extension using VLC media player but I was greeted with error message. The problem is that VLC does not have the right codec to play the audio. So, video will work but there will be no audio 😦

VLC does not support the audio or video format “undf”. Unfortunately, there is no way for you to fix this.

The fix that worked for me was to update VLC to latest version. I was using VLC version 2.1.5 and I upgraded it to 2.2.5.1. This solve my problem and I was able to watch and hear video.

Working through sbt test deadlock

Today, I encountered an issue while running tests for one of my Scala SBT projects. Each time, ran sbt test command hang. After running jvisualvm, I discovered that it is due to thread deadlock. I couldn’t figure out why deadlock is happening. Test cases worked fine when ran individually. To work through this issue, I disabled parallel execution of tests.

From command-line, you can use following command to disable parallel execution of test:

$ sbt 'set parallelExecution in Test := false' test

You can also set this setting in your build.sbt to avoid setting this setting manually.In your build.sbt , add the following line.

parallelExecution := false

OkHttp with Let’s Encrypt Certificates

If you are using OKHttp to make request to a server that used Let’s Encrypt certificate then you might get following exception.

&lt;br /&gt;Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1949)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:302)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:296)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1506)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:914)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1062)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connectTls(RealConnection.java:241)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.establishProtocol(RealConnection.java:198)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.buildConnection(RealConnection.java:174)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:114)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:193)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.StreamAllocation.findHealthyConnection(StreamAllocation.java:129)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.StreamAllocation.newStream(StreamAllocation.java:98)
at okhttp3.internal.connection.ConnectInterceptor.intercept(ConnectInterceptor.java:42)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
at okhttp3.internal.cache.CacheInterceptor.intercept(CacheInterceptor.java:109)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
at okhttp3.internal.http.BridgeInterceptor.intercept(BridgeInterceptor.java:93)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.intercept(RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.java:124)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:92)
at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:67)
at okhttp3.RealCall.getResponseWithInterceptorChain(RealCall.java:170)
at okhttp3.RealCall.execute(RealCall.java:60)
at com.shekhargulati.thereader.readers.FeedReader.readFeed(FeedReader.java:22)
... 28 more
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:387)
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:292)
at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:260)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:229)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:124)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1488)
... 56 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:146)
at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:131)
at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:382)
... 62 more

One way to avoid this error is by using JDK 1.8.0_101. This will make your code run fine. If upgrading is not an option, then you can try to add certificates to keystore by following this stackoverflow post.

Getting Started with vSphere EXSi — The Missing Tutorial

Getting Started with vSphere

Today, I got an opportunity to work with vSphere. The plan for the day was to install vSphere on one of our machine and then connect to it using a Python API so that we can launch virtual machines. The official documentation lacked clarity and it was not easy for a newbie like me to get started with vSphere. Throughout the day we faced numerous problems, stumbled across many blogs and vmware forum posts, and finally managed to create our first VM via the official vSphere Python API — pyvmomi. In this detailed blog, I will go over all the steps required to get started with vSphere. We will start with how to install vSphere on a machine, then look at how to install command-line client on a linux machine, and finally learn how to talk to the vSphere host using Python. This blog is a work in progress and I will continue updating it as I learn more about vSphere. Continue reading “Getting Started with vSphere EXSi — The Missing Tutorial”

Quick Tip on Mockito — Mocking Iterator

Today I was writing unit test for a piece of code which required me to mock a iterator. My requirement was that I wanted to return true first time when hasNext() method and return false in the second iteration. It took me sometime to figure out how to write such a test case. My class for which I was writing test looks like as shown below.

import java.util.Iterator;

public class ResultFetcher {

	private ResultStore store;
	private ResultProcessor processor;

	public void fetchResults() {
		Iterator<String> iterator = store.resultIterator();
		while (iterator.hasNext()) {
			String result = iterator.next();
			processor.process(result);
		}
	}
}

The unit test code is shown below. The important line in the test is Mockito.when(iterator.hasNext()).thenReturn(true,false); which will return true first time and false second time.

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.Mockito;

public class ResultFetcherTest {

@Test
public void testFetchResults() {
ResultFetcher fetcher = new ResultFetcher();

ResultStore store = Mockito.mock(ResultStore.class);
ResultProcessor processor = Mockito.mock(ResultProcessor.class);
fetcher.store = store;
fetcher.processor = processor;

Iteratoriterator = Mockito.mock(Iterator.class);
Mockito.when(store.resultIterator()).thenReturn(iterator);
Mockito.when(iterator.hasNext()).thenReturn(true,false);
Mockito.when(iterator.next()).thenReturn("Hello");
fetcher.fetchResults();
Mockito.verify(processor).process("Hello");
}

}

Logging JAXWS SOAP Request and Response using a Java Property

Today I was faced with the situation that I needed to log the SOAP requests and responses going in and out from a Java client. I just had the client jar no source code so I can’t any any log or change any other configuration. I needed to log the request and response because I was getting some weird exceptions which I was not able to understand. I got the hold of the SOAP request by passing a Java property

java -Dcom.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true -jar client.jar