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How best to share common steps between services while allowing them to provide their own behaviour
I've started working on a C# codebase. There are three services which run the same set of steps of three kinds of objects, each returning IResult: public IResult FooService(Foo foo) { ... } public ...
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I wrote a class with "init" method. Should I call it from other class methods? Or leave it to the object user? (Code Design)
I have a java class with an init method. It's different from the constructor. The constructor just initializes the variables/fields. The init method connects to a database and performs some ...
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Do I really need TaskManager class? [duplicate]
Background: I'm coding an app, the core idea is simple - I can choose a 'Task' (consists of name, code to perform aka Runnable, progress) through GUI, start it, stop it, start all 'Task's and stop all ...
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How to avoid cyclic dependency in UI application
I'm developing an UI application where I ran into an issue with a cyclic dependency. Here is the simplified code, to explain the problem. #include <list> class UiStyle; UiStyle* CreateStyle(); ...
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Using for_each instead of iterators to avoid iterator invalidation
I am writing a simple custom (special purpose) container and would like to allow for iteration over each element, however, avoid using iterators due to the problem of iterator invalidation. Instead of ...
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Is it a good software engineering practice to store libraries as attributes of objects?
Suppose I initialize a library, say, in python object - #filename: file_A import file_ class A(): def __init__(self): self.pd = file_.pd self.np = file_.np And suppose the ...
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Where is it appropriate to implement the split_array method
I am writing an implementation of a binary search tree and in doing this I need a method that splits an array in two. I am unsure where it is appropriate to place this method. What I mean by "where ...
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Calling methods on objects VS. passing objects as parameters
Which is considered a generally accepted practice? class Image { public void decode(); }; //main Image image; image.decode(); vs class ImageDecoder { public Image run(Image image); }; //main Image ...
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How do you enforce rules for the members of a collection in a non-OOP way?
When everything seems to be a collection, how do you enforce rules for members of said collection without the use of an interface? As far as I am aware, in languages that don't fully support OOP ...
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Is it good practice to make everything internal in C#?
In our solution we have a couple of projects, a project for data layer, service layer, business layer. etc. Inside the business layer, we use models to transfer data from classes to classes. Is it ...
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Module with globals or Class with attributes?
Currently I'm working with a lot of modules where the original developers used global variables to control states and to exchange important information between functions, like so: STATE_VAR = 0 def ...
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Why shouldn't I create a class for every property?
In a particular program I had written, I noticed I had a few classes with this pattern: class IdObject: '''Objects with generated id properties''' def __init__(self, id_generator): ...
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What is the programming paradigm when I just use functions in a file to organize my program?
I'm programming a telegram bot with Python and, for a number of reasons, there are no classes in the whole project, just several functions correlated to the the file where they are located. E.g., my ...
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How do you force developers to define dependencies/arguments if it's bad to put the constructor function in the interface?
I just started reading more about OOP and its design patterns and is confused with this conceptual question. I am too new that I am having second thought that the proper title should be, "when is it ...
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Are there any drawbacks to using a nested class instead of declaring a new one?
I'm doing code review on a change my co-worker made to our Java application, and I've found something I'm not very familiar with - a nested class. From reviewing the code, it seems like the nested ...
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