Questions tagged [coupling]
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In a microservice architecture without sharing a DB, how to spin up a worker to make changes in other microservices database?
Currently we have a MicroserviceA which has a database of objects that need to be hydrated with some KI calculated data. For this it queries MicroserviceB via REST in batches and inserts this into its ...
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How can I split tightly coupled code in an OOP language?
So I've a class that is some kind of wrapper of a state machine for a multipart upload and it's database writes/reads. Everytime something is uploaded via REST basically the following happens
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How to maintain cohesion, loose coupling, and SRP when building a reporting tool?
I'm building a reporting tool with three core layers:
Extract data from a database
Transform this data to compute business metrics
Display these metrics in a report (a heavily formatted Excel export ...
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Stable abstraction principle
I'm studying design principles, and I have a doubt in package coupling principles.
I know that the 'Stable Abstraction Principle' says that a package should be as abstract as stable, and it says that ...
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Cohesion and coupling possible combination in software
I know what we mean by cohesion and coupling in software. And generally the best practice is to achieve high cohesion with low coupling.
It seems to me though that they are inter-related. I.e. you ...
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Avoiding coupling through code sharing
I have been working on an application which consists of several cohesive services, Customer, Invoice, PurchaseOrder, Highlight, the application is deployed within a mono repo and each service is ...
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About coupling and cohesion
At the end of this discussion about coupling and cohesion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0v72pD1MI some renowned programmers agreed in the general thought that to achieve high cohesion you have to ...
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Do I have LocalDTOs? If yes, what is a good approach to keep encapsulation of the domain model?
LocalDTO term refers to Fowler's article.
Say I have a domain entity Person:
public class Person {
private String id;
private String name;
private int age;
}
This entity has its own ...
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Anemic Domain Model VS coupling and dependencies- design conflict - need an Object oriented advice
on design stage , after finding my main objects ,
I am always find my self writing "manager" or "controllers" classes in order to handle the connection between them. some of the ...
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In CQS is it accepted to have a coupling to another command
Consider this code, rather than hardcoding the hour when we execute a certain command I query the CQS engine and asks when it will be executed. Though now we have a high coupling to another command. ...
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How do I decouple this coupled application?
I currently have this Bot Viewer application
Which consist of the application itself - the Bot overviewer, which depends on a library
Bot.Core.
Within Bot.core we have defined the core interface for ...
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Achieving loose coupling
My scenario involves the following classes:
I have three types of Peer that creates a RegistryType instance because its methods are needed. Same for Identity class. Each PeerType need 0 or all the ...
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Coupling at the DB vs an API
I have a Website which has a BFF (back end for front end).
It consumes data from a service (a CMS) and its own configuration data.
The CMS data and the apps config data are in separate schemas (so ...
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I'm not seeing 'tightly coupled code' as one of the drawbacks of a monolithic application architecture
One of the most common things I see when discussing pros/cons of microservice vs monolithic architecture is that monolithic applications have, or always trend toward, 'tight coupling.'
To be honest, I'...
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How does one-way data binding and MVC achieve loose coupling?
In my limited understanding, one-way data binding could happen like the following:
On the back-end, I have a Node backend server. In that, I have a layer that communicates with the database (Model). I ...
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Application Security VS Tight coupling - High assurance of user intent
Disclaimer:
I'm not sure if this is the right site as this question sits under both software engineering and security domains.
Background:
Assume you have a financial web application that receives ...
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Java, dealing with XML and JPA Annotated Classes
I use xjc to compile XSD files to Java Classes, and want to edit/extend them to make them persistable through JPA.
I cant figure out what the best "Coupling?" would be and how to organize it,...
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Unit Testing Controllers without Mocks
I've done a lot of test writing using Mocks, and so I've learned that it makes refactoring difficult due to implementation coupling inherent with Mocks. I've done a lot of reading on the topic tonight,...
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Avoid tight coupling when configuring a service from a backend
I have multiple apps (app 1, ..., app n), that don't know each other but use the same services. At the same time, there is a single application to configure the services (let's call it backend).
One ...
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C++: Achieving a decoupled "Definition is Registration" paradigm for derived classes?
I'm trying to engineer this:
200 subclasses [ Derived Classes ]
After a subclass is defined, I wont need to edit any other file. [ Decoupled ]
Subclass Definition registers itself. [ Definition is ...
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Is coupling functionality desired when the usage of a function can be predicted with near-perfect confidence?
I have a function whose job is to look through a string that is a post's content and find certain pieces:
public static function findInsidePostContent( $post = Null )
{
//post_content comes from ...
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Wrapping a legacy project in a test framework
I am working on wrapping an old project written in C# in a test framework.
The largest problem I have is that I have a bunch of classes that are all VERY tightly coupled with other classes. All of ...
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In software design, should an application remain agnostic regarding its usage with real world data / mock data?
Let me try to summarize a bit more with a simple example:
You're building a large application, a user portal for example, with feeds, news, account management, and a whole range of difference ...
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Coupling: Theory vs Reality
Coupling is defined as the knowledge one object has about another one, which describes how dependent they are. The more dependent, the worse, since changes in one would impact in the second. High ...
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Can a service be split into two microservices using common libraries?
I am thinking of splitting a service serving multiple endpoints into microservices that can serve a set of endpoints but the problem is that the two services have certain logic in common. can the two ...
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Clean Architecture: Use case spanning multiple UI elements
So I'm currently trying to write a project using Clean Architecture. Its a Unity Engine project which doesn't make the task any easier.
The Issue I'm running into however is much more basic and has ...
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Fruit obj=new Orange(); and Orange obj=new Orange(); if both works identically in my code, which is the less coupling one?
Suppose I have 2 classes (which don't show methods to look simpler):
public interface Fruit{
}
public class Orange implements Fruit{
}
, and assume I can use 2 ways to initialize Orange without ...
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Do persistent/transient communication and temporal decoupling/coupling mean the same?
In Distributed Systems by Tanenbaum, p67 says
CHAPTER 2. ARCHITECTURES
2.1. ARCHITECTURAL STYLES
Cabri et al. [2000] provide a taxonomy of coordination models that can
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How to properly decouple using interface
I have a ecosystem simulation where animals move and collide with each other.
Here is how I handle collisions:
public void HandleCollisionBetween(Animal a, Animal b)
{
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How to avoid many objects in constructors when many steps are performed by a class
I have a process which must do 8 steps, in a particular order. One of the step involves sending an email, another one going on a distant FTP server, another one querying a database, and so on.
Now to ...
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Is this a good enough example of Factory method pattern?
On Wiki page for Factory method pattern, there is following example:
public interface IPerson
{
string GetName();
}
public class Villager : IPerson
{
public string GetName()
{
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An 'internal' scope class available only to selected classes
In many languages there is a scope that is just less than public called internal.
Wondering, Why none of the language, implemented a feature on internal such that one can specify
Only what other ...
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Parsing and validation of a csv file
I am trying to create a library where I need to validate and parse a file in a CSV-like format and then use this data to generate a Tree data structure.
At the moment I split the process into two ...
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How to output exception messages in GUI applications in order to decouple application code to GUI code?
I want to make GUI applications such that the non-GUI code is independent from the GUI one (let's say I'll use Java 8 and Swing for example). The goal is that I could hypothetically change the GUI ...
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Tight coupling between parent and children: always to be avoided?
Say we consider two inherently coupled elements, using a real-life like example:
Body
PhysicalIllness
Note: the following code is pseudo-Java for the sole purpose of syntax-coloring, pure syntax ...
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Is it a good idea to use data structures(classes) provided by a dependency in our system?
I am building a new system, which I will call S, that needs to get some data from another system, which I'll name D. System D provides a client and a collection of classes(POJOs) to represent the ...
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How to use dependency injection and avoid temporal coupling?
Suppose I have the Service that receives dependencies via constructor but also needs to be initialized with custom data (context) before it can be used:
public interface IService
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void ...
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What is the appropriate architecture to access variable in parent from element of child list?
I have a Parent object which looks like this (pseudocode):
class Parent {
String token;
Child[] children;
}
It contains a token string and an array of Child objects. My problem is that each of ...
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How to connect two objects that communicate with each other?
I am writing a simple chat using Node.js, Websockets and Vue.js. Specifically, I have a Vue instance and a Websockets Client. When a user presses a "Submit" button, Vue asks the Client to send a ...
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Referencing Database Primary Keys from Codebase
I don't have a lot of experience with these kind of issues, but I feel I need to consult on this issue. The current codebase I'm working on is using what I consider to be a questionable technique to ...
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Designing a multithreaded TCP/UDP server for audio sharing
As briefly introduced in the question title, I am trying to design and implement a server application able to let clients share audio contents between themselves. In order to achieve that, I decided ...
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Business Logic Entities and Data Access Layer Entities
I am thinking on how to structure a project. I wonder if it is a good practice to use different entity classes between the BL and DAL in order to decouple these layers.
I have worked on projects ...
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Does SRP feed tight coupling?
I designed a function which, afterwards, I noticed it is clearly doing 2 very different tasks in the same time.
So now I am thinking to split it into 2 different functions, each one of them doing ...
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Does composition increase or decrease the coupling
We know that composition is a synonym of loose coupling.
From here I read coupling becomes stronger between the classes A and B when:
A has an attribute that refers to (is of type) B.
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Is it possible to apply DRY without increasing coupling?
Assume we have a software module A that implements a function F. Another module B implements the same function as F'.
There are a number of ways to get rid of the duplicate code:
Let A use F' from B....
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Packages, a controller class, and coupling vs cohesion
So I'm building my first application, in Python, and some issues have cropped up because of the lack of interfaces (I.e. explicit type declaration)
My design involves several homebrew packages, and I'...
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Code coupling introduce by DRY and OOD
I'm looking for guidance about DRY vs Code coupling.
I do not like to duplicate my code and I also do not like code coupling between unrelated modules. So I refactor duplicate code if I find ...
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How to prevent implementation/algorithm from leaking into unit tests?
I'm hesitating between algorithm and implementation as most of the questions here on how to prevent coupling between implementation and tests are about using spies/stubs or mocks.
The typical problem ...
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Wrapping 3rd party objects that are dependant upon each other and best practices
I'm having a bit of a moment of indecision here and I'd like some perspective on it.
I'm currently wrapping up objects from a 3rd party API (at home for my own project and at work), and I'm doing my ...
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Ripple Effect Analysis using coupling metrics
How can I observe ripple effect using coupling attributes alone?
I first find the common coupling metrics for a set of deprecated classes in a project, like CBO(Coupling Between Objects), RFC(...
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