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An anti-pattern is a behavior or practice that is common despite being ineffective or counterproductive.

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In poltergeist, whats wrong with "solely to trigger or initialize several other objects"? Isn't it is a good use of encapsulation and reuse?

After reading What differentiates function objects from poltergeists?, according to the definition of poltergeist, I still don't understand why would "poltergeist" be a bad pattern: A ...
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Can chatty microservices be okay to use if there is a specific use case for them?

Introduction Hi everyone, in my company we are using microservice approach and of course are trying to do it as correct as possible. There is a new requirement coming up where I have laid out a ...
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Is using an UId to hash Mutable Entities an anti-pattern?

In the context of an object-oriented language, such as Dart, I have an abstract entity which has a single property called id (which is incrementally uniquely generated to make sure there are no-...
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Is it anti-pattern to obtaining public static data from a function?

In C programming, I have a set of information, and I have to ways of providing it to user: construct a data structure and provide it as an object. write a function to read them out and return them. ...
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Is module scoped initialisation considered a bad practice?

A module app.js includes another module service.js. The service.js module/file contains some functions but also does some module scoped initialisations(registry variable). // service.js const ...
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Is having many thin factories an antipattern?

I need to perform the following task: for a user user@domain.com, store a blob of data into their dedicated data store. DataStoreService is what actually stores the blob of data in the user's store, ...
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If you use Inversion of Control, what alternatives to obfuscated function calls exist?

Consider a class that follows the obfuscated function call anti-pattern. I've also seen these called "stupid classes". The definition of such a class is that it only has one public method ...
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Are there existing term(s) for a 1-1 child-parent table anti-pattern?

NOTE: Please don't respond by telling me that I probably don't understand what I am looking at. You can't possibly know that and it's wrong. Just don't answer if that's all you have to say. I'm ...
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Are "Distributed Enums" an Anti-pattern in non-OOP like they seem to be considered in OOP?

I have recently read about the so-called "distributed enum anti-pattern." In particular, as it relates to using enums in conditional statements. (The idea is apparently that if you were to ...
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How do you fix the wrong-case-sensitivity dictionary setting bug-pattern?

There is a coding anti-pattern I've noticed (while using .Net). You declare a data class, which is supposed to have a dictionary field (or get/set Property), and lets call it 'Properties', for the ...
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What is the anti-pattern for modules that group objects of the same type? [closed]

In MVC, I often seen all models in a models.py module, all views in a views.py module, and the controller - you guessed it - in a controller.py module. In other projects, I sometimes see all exception ...
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Creating an abstraction just for exception handling - a pattern or anti-pattern?

Assume that an external library or framework not under our control exposes a Controller API: abstract class Controller { abstract fun call(): Result } Assume that we want to handle exceptions ...
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Waiting until end of project to remove commented out code, remove unused code, and resolve compiler warnings

A co-worker of mine is working on project solo but would still like to have other team members review their code upon reaching certain milestones. Unfortunately, they also want to wait until the end ...
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What pattern is a function that returns a component?

Ok I have a bunch of components that all have the same logic but have different css classes. So I wanted to create a sort of factory function that takes the names of the classes as its argument and ...
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How to improve the coding quality in a problematic company [duplicate]

Due to circumstances I'm now working in a small software company. We make e-mail marketing management software and serve some big customers as our national railways and a big bank. The software has ...
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Is this dependency propogation an anti-pattern, and how do I remove it?

Module A contains a gap buffer for manipulating text and some associated methods. Relevant to this question is the dependency on a Module B, used for syntax highlighting of text. Module A also ...
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Is it an (anti-)pattern for a function to have an argument to decide which other function to call?

Consider your have an enumeration that looks like this: enum ProcessingType { CONFABULATION, RETICULATION, SPLICING; } And you have a web-service that looks like this: class WebService { ...
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Are the exceptions used in BeanValidation/JAX-RS's ExceptionMapper an anti pattern?

I am reading a lot about patterns and code structure and something that bothers me is BeanValidation's way to handle errors. I like Java and think that BeanValidation is easy to use, but it seems to ...
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Are user-callable recursive functions an anti-pattern?

I have a function in python that calls itself recursively, and has some internal variables passed down the recursion using keyword arguments (that are not listed in the docstring) Is it a problem to ...
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No trivial god-class refactoring

Consider you have the following code: class UserContainer { List<User> user; //some methods to get specific users, for example users, which are higher than 1,70meters } The User have a ...
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General term to describe the anti-pattern where the same concept is described in different ways?

Our codebase is old and very large. Over the years, many developers have worked on the code and frequently refered to the same concept inconsistently. For example, we have a "number that uniquely ...
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Is putting general-use functions in a "helpers" file an anti-pattern or code smell?

Is it an anti-pattern or code smell to put "general use" functions (examples below) into a catch-all file named "helpers" or "utils"? It's a pattern I've seen quite a lot ...
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Can someone suggest what pattern I used mistakenly and is it correct in this situation. Any alternative?

Client_1 uses --> IService_1 and thus Service1_impl public interface IService_1 { void DoTask_1(); } public class Service1_impl : IService_1 { private readonly IDepService_1_v1 ...
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Resource that has different state based on input parameters

Let's say I have a REST api endpoint that is getting a resource called a "purchasable" (an item that a user can purchase). Here is an example of what this might look like. Endpoint: GET /...
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Name for unnecessary transcoding antipattern?

Say I have a library function that expects a JSON-encoded object and does some things with it: function foo(bar) { const baz = JSON.parse(bar); doTheThing(baz); doTheOtherThing(baz.qux); } ...
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Using python context managers instead of passing arguments: Is it an anti pattern?

We have an input flag in our API which indicates whether we should keep the mid level resources involved in fulfilling current request or not. I've decided to use some context managers at interface ...
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Anti-pattern in which code blocks are indirectly used as parameters

I was recently trying to explain a particular anti-pattern to some novice programmers and found that it was hard to express without an overly-detailed example. I'm sure it has a name and that someone ...
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How to fix a pair of tightly coupled classes that store references to each other?

I have the following situation: class User { public Thing curThing; } //each thing can only belong to one user at a time //And vice versa class Thing { ...
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Anti-pattern? Storing JSON table in SQL table

For an application that I currently plan to scale up, there's a bunch of JSON dicts and directories making up the "database". The reason I didn't use SQL initially, is simply because I've ...
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Is an antipattern returning differente objects in a single rest method?

I have seen around the Internet several rest web services with the following behaviour. In case there are any errors, they return a Error object, otherwise they return, say, MyClass. See the ...
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How is a nested Try/Catch (inside the try) not an anti-pattern

I've seen a debate on this. Nested trys in the catch, I can see that being okay. The outer try has already triggered a catch by that time, hence no scope issues. The other way....hides errors (it is a ...
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.Net Core Dependency Injection is an example of anti-pattern?

I want to use Dependecy injection in my new .net core project, but my manager thinks it is an anti-pattern usage. I already know benefits of dependency injection. But my manager cares architecture ...
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Are there cases when using polling is preferable to Webhooks

When evaluating whether to use webhooks or polling for an architectural decision I've been reading some articles. Most highlight the obvious drawbacks with using polling such as: wasted resources (...
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Why should 'boneheaded' exceptions not be caught, especially in server code?

I am confused because in quite a few places I've already read that the so-called 'boneheaded' exceptions (ones that result from bugs in code) are not supposed to be caught. Instead, they must be ...
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Avoiding Arrow Anti-Pattern in MISRA-C

For a safety-critical domain, with a code standard including the MISRA C 2004 guidelines, a "simple" piece of code becomes obtuse, chiefly because of the requirements both that all if() statements ...
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Avoiding "instanceof" and explicit casts when selecting applicable handlers for inheriting object

In my current project, I am trying to implement an environment to perform simulations of different workflows in a range of programs, websites, and mobile applications. These simulation subjects can ...
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Is there a better way to use C# dictionaries than TryGetValue?

I find myself often looking up questions online, and many solutions include dictionaries. However, whenever I try to implement them, I get this horrible reek in my code. For example every time I want ...
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Temporal coupling vs. complex constructor

I'm working through a book on writing Single Page Applications in Vanilla Javascript. (I'm working on a project where I'm not allowed to use React or any other frameworks, so I'm trying to get better ...
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Design question on synchronization of two asynchronous data streams

I have two async streams suppose- Trip : {tripId, date, city} Bill : {billId, tripId, date, amount}. I need to design a system to get real time aggregated view of following nature: City, TripCount, ...
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Is my company merging branches wrong?

I recently came across an MSDN article about branching and merging and SCM: Branching and Merging Primer - Chris Birmele. In the article they say 'big bang merge' is a merging antipattern: Big ...
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What is wrong with writing web applications in a way that merges repository layer with view and with controller in the same file?

is there anything wrong with writing code in a way that merges view, repository, controller in the same file? i.e. global $db; // or $db = DBSingleton::get_db_instance(); // or global $container; $...
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Is a Factory calling a Factory an anti-pattern or an extension of the Single Responsibility Principle?

I'm busy playing around with some training material to help teach some of the juniors the factory pattern. Whilst writing the example, I can't help but think this might be an anti-pattern. Lets say ...
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Is a constant name related to its current value an anti-pattern? [closed]

For example, suppose I have a string constant like this: const TITLEBAR_MESSAGE="Welcome back, %USERNAME%!"; I think it is more readable when it is named as const WELCOME_BACK_USERNAME="Welcome ...
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Swappable state object or decoupling data and functions

I come from OOP pradigm and I also know a bit about functional programming and its advantages. Over time I came to like the separation of data and transformations that are applied to it using pure ...
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How to bring a code to conformance with tell, don't ask without creating tons of methods on other classes?

It used to be fairly common for people to call a getter, do some calculation on it, then call a setter with the result. This is a clear sign your calculation actually belongs to the class you called ...
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What is this anti-pattern's name? (Specialization added directly to a general purpose utility component)

I'll describe the anti-pattern I see occasionally as this. Rather than using encapsulation or inheritance, a utility library grows with feature specializations directly added to it. Subsequent usage ...
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How can I get rid of this antipattern

I have a main window and I amgetting data from http client service while form load. public class MainWindow: Window { private IClientService service; public MainWindow(IClientService ...
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How can I resolve this **kwargs antipattern?

I am a hobbyist programmer, working on a much more complex Python project than I've attempted before, which is in the form of a Python library. I find that I'm often passing **kwargs around (as ...
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Injecting a dependency that is a tree of dependencies

Is it a pattern or antipattern to inject a dependency that is a tree of dependencies? For example: public class ClassExample { private IContainer _container; public ClassExample(IContainer ...
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Is it efficient and a normal practice to have one class with thousands of lines of code? [duplicate]

I am currently in a continuous software product development project on base of legacy Java code. The source code is very complicated, which is good and bad. But I am surprised to see that in the core ...
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