Questions tagged [object-oriented-design]
Object-oriented design is the process of planning a system of interacting objects for the purpose of solving a software problem.
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How does Object-Oriented Design fit into N-Layered Architecture?
Normally an N-Layered application is structured as follows. User Interface layer Business Logic Layer Data Access Layer DAL contains objects (data containers) representing business entities. The BLL ...
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Difficulty understanding benefit of Separation of Concerns
One of the motivations for separation of concerns is so a change in one place does not affect the other. I am going to make an argument with my limited understanding. Here is a scenario where I fail ...
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Handling class specific behavior: polymorphism vs instanceof
I'm designing a system with different types of components, and I'm trying to decide whether to use polymorphism or instanceof checks for handling type-specific behavior. I see two possible approaches: ...
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LabVIEW Object-Oriented Scripting Engine
This question is for LabVIEW 2019. Highlighting that fact first because some of the "standard" object-oriented techniques like interfaces, type inference, template specialization, etc. aren'...
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How to encapsulate functions inside a library
I'm working on a project that uses an in-house library, which is also used by other projects. There are some classes and methods in other classes that are not used outside the library itself, is there ...
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Avoiding instanceofs with GUI composites
I have a stack of custom Row widgets. Each of them is a label with some editComponent (often a JTextComponent). Rows are aware of their previous and next siblings (if a Row has no such sibling, the ...
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Refactoring object of large set of properties
I have a class that looks like: class Vehicle: coordinates: GeoCoordinates speed: float rpm: float egt: float // 100+ other parameters A repertoire of concrete classes that use ...
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How to allow users to provide their own child classes in a factory design pattern in c++?
I am building a c++ project that will allow users to essentially model and create their own fleet of cars. Right now, the approach I have in mind is a Car Factory Class that will implement all of the ...
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Is breaking encapsulation a necessary compromise for serialization?
I've been considering the way to solve this problem for a while, and I'm currently stuck between two options I both feel are suboptimal. Here's an abstract example of what I'm dealing with: I have a ...
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Designing a Two-Party Protocol
I want to design a two-party protocol that runs on two different processes; each process is one party of the protocol. My implementation of a Protocol looks as follows: enum class Role { P1, P2 }; ...
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Implementing factory that return the correct type
Imagine I have a factory that must create object based on unknown input (let's say user input). class Base; class MyFactory { static unique_ptr<Base> CreateBase(Input& input); } Now this ...
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Which approach do I choose for representing objects and scenes in my 3D drawing library?
I'm creating my own drawing library in C++ to provide shared rendering code for my projects. Since the library is designed to be used as a component of other projects, the renderer's representation of ...
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Is it ok to assert on the behavior of return values of a testable class?
So I have a dialog for generating a random password. The user can set min, max, character categories (upper, lower, etc.). What the user basically does is configuring a StringGenerator that does the ...
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Is it bad to pass builders as constructor arguments?
Note. It's a "spin-off" from my previous question. Not a duplicate — it focuses on a different topic I got to know builders from Bloch's Effective Java. However, I made two changes to his ...
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Should everything be buildable?
You have some class that performs a certain job public class MyClass { public MyClass() { // ... } // ... } Then, a spec change comes around. The responsibility of the class is the ...
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