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Should class dependencies be organized in tree structure?
Is it doable, desirable to organize project classes, dependencies in Tree/DAG structure?
To be more specific. In applications (not libraries) we have always some entry point, am I right? Some main ...
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What's the correct Git flow to develop on two independent features + one feature that relies on both?
I'm trying to find the correct flow to manage this kind of development, where A and B are two independent features, and C is a third feature that relies on A and B.
An obvious approach would be to ...
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Backward compatibility testing
As a creator of a software library, how can I verify backward compatibility with earlier versions?
When using a dependency management (here: Maven), multiple versions of my dependency could be (...
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Aggregate small spring-boot REST services into a big one as dependencies
I have build several small REST services based on spring-boot. Each of this REST service has an own database, own configuration and can run independently without the other services. Each service is ...
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Are there downsides to putting dll dependencies in version control?
I'm working on a multiplatform CMake project that depends on SDL2. I'm currently putting the SDL2 dlls in a directory in my project and committing them through git-lfs. A post-build CMake step is then ...
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What is the difference between a library and a dependency?
In this docker beginner video its explained, that different stacks may depend on different libraries and dependencies and that this can be handled with Docker.
However, I don't get what the ...
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How do projects manage security with so many dependencies in open source projects?
Some node.js libraries (just as an example) can pull in literally hundreds of dependencies. Some of these dependencies are small packages that only have one contributor. Often times the contributor ...
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Where can I put project dependencies
I've just finished my studies in Computer Science and now I'm working.
The problem is I'm the only computer scientist in my company and I'm probably taking a lot of bad habits. I would like to correct ...
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Should I pull to another job workspace or should I push from it the 2nd job dependencies?
I have a question regarding CI/CD procedure. I do have 2 Jenkins jobs, the 1st one will build a binary file who is a dependency to the 2nd job build successfully.
Should I push this binary from 1st ...
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Risk of NuGet package adding new reference DLL
Had an interesting discussion with our architect. It was related to replacing a plain DLL reference with a NuGet package. His worry was "If it is possible for single NuGet package to add multiple DLL ...
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Should I update the major version of a consumer package if one of its critical dependencies has a major update?
This is a scenario I have seen:
I have a shared library with code that fetches data from an api. Let's call this ApiProvider. Currently this ApiProvider is in version 1.1.1 and is currently pointing ...
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How to show UML component load/discovery and realization relationships
In a UML component diagram I want to show two components (among others). One is the core component that loads contents (classes) from the other. It's much like a testframework loading unit tests/test ...
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Which tree or graph structure to solve this problem?
I have the following interface, it defines a loadable resource that depends on other resources that should be loaded first so it can load itself:
It does its job, the Find method allowing to search ...
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How can I get rid of a dependency in a single branch?
I am working on an API solution, split in three projects:
API
Domain
DataAccessLayer
I have created an interface, in the Domain project, ICustomerRepository, with a single method:
Domain.Customer ...
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Is it bad practice to have a helper package in go for testing purposes. Or is this introducing dependence's
I find myself repeating the same code when writing unit tests, for example... When writing functions that work with files, In the setup for the test i often write some code to create a file (in a ...
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Use just one parameter for all dependencies instead of many?
I understand that having 3 or more parameters as dependency is a sign that the class may be doing too many things, however there are cases that the class really needs more than 3. My question is, is ...
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Doubt about package-by-feature and circular dependencies
I am implementing a library that:
Takes some input data (I put data structures and classes in the parsing package)
Stores the data in a structure (I put data structures and classes in the storage ...
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UML class diagrams - how do I draw a class diagram that shows a self-reference? [closed]
So I have the following case. I have an interface A and an implementation AImpl. Now I have another implementation of A, called A2Impl, which references any instance of A besides implementing A ...
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Avoiding instantiating the whole application at startup when using a composition root
In a typical non-DI application, when you enter a section of code the necessary objects are constructed and when you leave it they are deconstructed.
However, when doing dependency injection with a ...
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modular system (packages) with dependencies?
I am building few sites for my company's client. The sites are mostly the same but could have some customisations.
so we decided to create duplicate sites instead of multi-tennant and we decided to ...
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Why is it considered bad that Guava introduced direct, internal dependencies?
For a few months, there's a heated discussion ongoing in Guava's issues (#3302, #3320) about having introduced several internal dependencies, namely "failureaccess" and "listenablefuture".
Some of ...
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How to deal with fear of taking dependencies
The team I'm in creates components that can be used by the company's partners to integrate with our platform.
As such, I agree we should take extreme care when introducing (third-party) dependencies. ...
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Injecting DAO dependencies into Service Class in Core Java
We don't have any frameworj like Spring where we can inject dependencies using annotations or xml file.
We have handler classes, service classes and dao classes.
Handler classes access service which ...
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Is it problematic to have a dependency between objects of the same layer in a layered software architecture?
Considering a medium-big software with an n-layer architecture and dependency injection, I am comfortable to say that an object belonging to a layer can depend on objects from lower layers but never ...
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C# Pattern for Creating/Hiding Object Graph Creation
I'd like to get some advice on what would be a good approach at hiding the creation of an object graph. In the code below I would like SomeClass to not be directly responsible for the creation of the ...
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Reducing dependencies between stories & which branch (GIT) should QA's test on?
Background
We have a team of 8 devs and 1 QA (tester) and we're struggling with dependencies between tickets and causing a lot of merge headaches and/or people waiting around for the next bit of work ...
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How to model attribute dependency “inside one class” in UML class diagram?
I have the following "software reality in working code" (also no access to it):
There is a class Class1 with different attributes
AttributeA - sums up all "ordinary attributes"
EnumType
DataType
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Do I include system dependencies when calculating Instability?
Given the formula to calculate instability...
I = (Ce / (Ca + Ce)) with Ce = outgoing dependencies, Ca = incoming dependencies, and I = Instability,
...should I include system dependencies (such as ...
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Adding library as dependency only to use one function
Few months ago I started working in a team that develops software using Node.js. Quite often we encounter the problem that has been already solved by someone else and the solution is already available ...
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How to have multiple source copies of a dependency in a C# git project?
In our company, we develop information system software in C#.NET, which has client-server-module architecture. Module project does not depend directly on server/client project, but only on shared ...
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Private/Hiding dependencies between Maven modules
Given three project modules X, Y and Z on a Maven based project, and Y depends of Z and X of Y and X should not know that Y depends of Z, being this:
X -> Y
Y -> Z
X -X> Z
What is the best way to ...
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If a instance method is used in one place only, should I move that method to that place?
For example, suppose I have a ZipCode class:
public class ZipCode{
public value String value;
public boolean validateFormat(){
...
}
public otherMethod1(){
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}...
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Why should I use foreign keys in database? [closed]
In my 10+ years of experience in the IT field, I have never used foreign keys in any of my projects and I never felt the need. I did work with professional databases that had foreign keys constraints. ...
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Git Repository Structure for Interdependent Projects
Note: I've seen several other questions about repository organization, but I haven't found any with this dependency issue
Current Structure
At the moment, we have several distributions (which must ...
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Circular dependency in composition root
I have a MDI MyMDIWinForm that needs an instance of IGUIErrorHanlder for error handling, At the same time IGUIErrorHanlder depends on the MDI MyMDIWinForm for having a place from where to launch pop-...
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How to manage multiple NuGet packages in GitHub and Artifactory?
My colleagues and I are in the process of re-architecting our system. The old system is a ASP.NET monolith using TFS for source control. The new system is made up of ASP.NET Core microservices using ...
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What is the correct way of adding third-party code into a C or C++ project?
I want to incorporate some open source libraries into my C project. This is the first time I do that, so I don't know what is the right or most common way of doing it.
I see two possible paths I can ...
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How to use TypeScript to develop web applications
I've been reading a lot about Type Script lately, and it seems really interesting, but I'm having some trouble understanding how to apply this to my current workflow, so let's start with that.
I ...
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If a method in class A needs extra dependency but not every client uses it, should I move it out of A?
For example, suppose I have a class like that:
public class PlayerInfo{
public loadDataFromDB(){
//some code about DB framework
}
public string name;
public int age;
//...
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Should I split a single class into multiple classes to reduce dependency if possible? [closed]
For example, suppose I have a class like that:
public class ABC{
private Data data;
public ABC(Data data){
this.data=data;
}
public void ab(A a,B b){
//some codes ...
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How should end-users install dependencies for software [closed]
Suppose I have an application written in C++, which uses WxWidgets (or some other library) for gui. When an end-user installs my application, how do I make sure they also install the necessary ...
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Efficient dependency management between components
Let's say my app depends on lib A that depends on B that depends on C (we are owners of them all). Now, you bump the version of C to 1.0.1 (a bug fix).
How would you propagate the change of C to the ...
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Wrapping enums from a library
I have an external dependency that provides a client library that is subject to change frequently. I'm writing a wrapper class on top of the client library so that all changes with respect to that ...
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Application build needs external “resources” to work: is this bad or… normal?
I was talking with some coworkers about the application build and we have some divergences about what each one consider a good practice or something to worry about.
I learn that a good application ...
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What are the most effective ways to manage rot in your platform's dependencies?
I have a couple of inactive Pinax sites at different versions (0.9.x and 0.7.x). These both started with two common features:
While the version of Pinax was the most recent to have a (nonempty) ...
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Is it right to have dependenties to my Viewmodel from data acces layer and view layer
Context
In my application I use the MVVM pattern. I'll have a ViewModel that can contains information of a student. This viewmodel is used to communicatie between my view and model. I use ASP.net ...
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Inject type as dependency injection, when new instances are required on each method call - How to avoid?
I have a class
public class CertificadoHandler : ICertHandler
{
Type typeAfirmaValidate;
public CertificadoHandler(){
typeAfirmaValidate = typeof(AfirmaValidateCertificate);
}
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Is it possible to ship libraries with code?
Is there any way to safely include libraries (either internal or external) in the directory of a project (say in a lib/ folder) when you ship or release code? As far as I can see it would be a lot ...
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How to handle common functionality that is not business logic in clean architecture
The dependency rule in Clean Architecture states that:
... that source code dependencies can only point inwards.
I now came across a problem that I cannot figure out myself.
Lets assume I have a ...
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Workarounds for putting reference into an object passed as parameter to parent
Problem
So I'm making a video game and I'm facing a design problem. I would like to pass the reference of a class being constructed to a constructor of another object and pass this other new object ...
