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A methodology that enables a system to be modeled as a set of objects that can be controlled and manipulated in a modular manner
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How to get rid of Mappers and make objects build themselves?
I am having a really hard time deciding where to instantiate my entities in the refactoring I am making. The project was built with DDD and it's layered: it has the infra, domain and app layers. In ...
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Is OOP really beneficial for enterprise-scale business software compared to procedural languages like ABAP or COBOL?
I'm currently drafting a Python coding standard for internal enterprise use, primarily targeting business applications that involve heavy data access, reporting, and transactional logic.
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Global State, How To Do IT?
im kind of a newbie so take me easy
i face a problem every time i make a project
specially Client projects, which is Global State i always struggle to do it
for example, here is the structure of one ...
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Should I expose an instance's state with methods?
I've read somewhere about a pattern that is as follows: if it'll change the state of the instance, the method should be named with a verb and return void; and if the method just returns something (...
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Is it better to pass a specific “context” object to handlers rather than the entire domain object?
I’m designing a system where various “handlers” apply business rules to an object. Initially I had each handler receive the full domain object:
// A large domain object with many properties and ...
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When does encapsulating a primitive field into its own class make sense? [duplicate]
Let's say I have the following Java code:
public record Person(String firtName, String lastName, int age) {}
Can it makes sense to have instead:
public record Person(FirstName firtName, LastName ...
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How to structuring a read/write submodule in OOP Python
I am developing a python package that needs to be able to read/write from/to multiple formats. E.g. foo format and bar format. I am trying to contain the functions relating to each format in a single ...
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Do I need to create an interface for every service class to follow good design principles?
I'm working on a custom Magento 2 module in my internship, and I'm trying to follow SOLID principles in my code.
Right now, my controller actions handle everything: getting request data, processing it,...
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Best way to add asynchronous execution for already implemented synchronous process
I have a complex process implemented in Java Spring microservice.
Currently this process is triggered on user request and it is synchronously executed.
This often results in a gateway timeout.
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Why do "protected variables" tend to violate open closed principle?
According to Why is Clean Code suggesting avoiding protected variables?, I know there are tons of reasons to avoid protected variables.
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Is it still a code smell if a class knows all subtypes but not using instanceof and downcasting?
According to Instanceof code smell, I know using "instanceof" is a code smell, so suppose there is a game with some Tools:
Tool.java:
public interface Tool{
public void printInfo();
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Extracting type info
Suppose that I want to implement the following scenario.
There is a board and each board has a set of peripherals like leds, temp sensors, gpio and so on. Each of them implements the according C++ ...
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Passing info between different branches of a class hierarchy in C++?
So, I have a class hierarchy that looks like this:
It is an embedded project, so the entire code will be run over and over.
I have several algorithm classes, that compute some result given some inputs....
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Refactoring a codebase from manual memory management to RAII
Edit: @Ben Cottrell's comment said this was similar to a question about spaghetti code. While both questions involve large codebases, mine addresses a specific technical pattern: manual memory ...
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Should setters silently sanitize input — or should they just throw? [closed]
Suppose the code's inside some FullName class
And suppose I want only capitalized name elements (let's ignore the fact that in some cultures, name elements may start with a lower-case letter)
Should I ...
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