What to name class that applies methods of another class?

Question

This is a pretty vague question, but, sometimes, I'm not very good at naming specific tasks, but I know it's very important and I don't want to name it something ungood.

I have the following file structure:

Project/
|-- project/
|   |-- Connection.py
|   |-- ???.py  
|
|-- Tests/
    |-- test_connection.py
    |-- test_???.py

The connection class contains several instance methods, which contain methods, such as upload, download, delete, etc.

I, now, need to apply those methods to specific sets of files. E.G.: read a file, which contains the paths of the files that should be uploaded and use them as arguments to the upload method.

Because of this, I created a class, which is full of static methods, which, e.g., apply methods from Connection several times (e.g., in a loop).

I don't really like having a class full of static methods, but I don't really know what else to do. The other problem is that I don't know how I should name this class. I named it "FileHandler", but I don't really like the name.

Any advice on what I should do? Should I keep the class, do something with it, change the name?

Hopefully, this is the place to post questions like this; if it's not, please tell me and I'll delete the question.

Answer 1

Change your perspective.

You keep describing this class based on what happens inside it and what it uses. That point of view creates terrible names.

Instead think about what is using this thing. What need it is fulfilling. Disregard how it accomplishes it’s goal and focus on the goal. Draw your name from that.

Choose your name that way and you can refactor how it works without changing the name. This will make it a powerful abstraction.