Questions tagged [dependencies]
Dependency is a broad software engineering term used to refer to when a piece of software relies on another one. A requirement & prerequisite that must be fulfilled or installed before your code or software can function.
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Dependency resolution of tasks which have crontab information
I want to illustrate my problem statement with a use case. I am building a trading system that acts as a container for deploying trading strategies. The trading strategy comprises dependent tasks. Let'...
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How to structure python modules/packages according to dependecy inversion
If I am working on a project, say it has this file structure:
car/
body/
__init__.py
doors.py
bonnet.py
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cyclinderhead/
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pistons.py
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External dependencies in Domain Driven Design
The application I am working on is written in TypeScript and I need to manipulate DateTime. I always avoid doing date/time calculations manually, because they have a lot of edge-cases. The Date class ...
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C# WPF - Is it acceptable to have a dependency to PresentationCore.dll in domain layer?
We are working on a .NET desktop application written in C# and WPF, that communicates with a REST API server.
The software has a layered design and consists of multiple projects.
One project for the ...
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How to manage multiple laravel projects with different dependencies on the same PC?
Let's say I have a laravel project which needs laravel 5 and php7 etc.
Now a friend has a laravel project which needs laravel 8 and php8.
There are obviously more different configurations as well.
How ...
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How to package and distribute a Tensorflow GPU desktop application
I am developing a desktop application that utilises Tensorflow. The aim of the application is to let users easily train a given model and use it for inference within the app. I want to support ...
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Is there merit to keeping packages/dependencies in a legacy project up to date?
I have been assigned a ticket to update all node packages and dependencies in a react project to the latest possible version without breaking the application monolith as it is now; no further ...
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Use deprecated library or copy the code I need from it into my codebase?
I need some code from some deprecated libraries, one small class (150 lines) and two functions (24 lines). The libraries are part of larger set that we use a couple of but both are being deprecated. ...
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Git dynamic merge branch
I'm currently using git to manage a "modpack" for a game, the modpack is made of several smaller mods, each of which is a branch. Some mods may also depend on, potentially multiple, other ...
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Is there any performance hit associated by the definition of a static constructor or due to availability of it?
This question is mostly related to the way language implementer do implements static class initalization (pretty specialized question). It is for curiosity and also to potentially improve my code to ...
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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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How can I cleanly express these dependencies?
Consider this hypothetical scenario. I have a user form that has a collection of controls that are made available/unavailable based on certain criteria. One important criterion is product type. On ...
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What is a suitable way to handle dependent instance variables?
In particular I am wondering if it is acceptable to have an instance variable that can be calculated by other instance variables (i.e. during the creation of the object)?
On one hand I see the data ...
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Is checking dependencies into source control worth the cost?
For the last several years, I've been checking all dependencies of my team's nodejs project into source control. At first, we stored the archives of all dependencies using yarn v1's offline mirror, ...
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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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Should unit tests assert the inputs to dependencies?
tl;dr: Is it a unit test or an integration test, to ensure that the inputs to a mocked dependency were correct?
More details:
Suppose I'm given a requirement like this:
Create a function that returns ...
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How to manage microservice dependencies in local development?
I'm currently developing two microservices to be deployed on kubernetes, but already facing problems to onboard another person to work on a feature in microservice A.
The dependencies are as follows
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What do you call a dependency that "leaks" to client code? What do you call one that doesn't?
Let's say you have a library StuffDoer which calls an external library MagicWizard to do its stuff. Then you add a reference to StuffDoer in UsefulApp.
In some scenarios, referencing StuffDoer ...
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How can I use the Factory pattern and expose my factories to consuming code without introducing transitive dependencies on the constructed types?
I have a C# class called FileTransferManager. Previously it took some parameters such as a username and password to connect to a FTP server. However now I have an additional requirement to support ...
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What is the relation between edges in a dependency graph and the program call to create a vertex?
A Makefile is a representation of a depency graph. The files are the vertices, for example somefunctions.h, somefunctions.c and myprogram.c are the "input" vertices (is there a formal word ...
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How much of the frontend functionality should be mirrored in the API?
QA here. Relatively new to API testing (manual). Thought I'd turn to the experts to try and figure out if my expectations around how much functionality should sit in the API are more or less valid.
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Dependency Injector and Collections
I have been searching for an answer in this topic but I haven’t been able to find a satisfactory one like in other topics, where the consensus is solid.
The situation
To keep things simple: I am ...
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May I and should I include my dependencies in the jar i publish online?
I'm developing a java project that I'd eventually like to publish and make open source.
To make a executable jar file I use the maven-assembly-plugin. This includes my dependencies in the jar, which ...
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Method call order dependency
I have two camera devices that are able to find a specific hardware illuminated point in an image, as well as measuring the physical distance to the surface (and some more stuff I chose to leave out, ...
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Is it ok copying code from one application to another, both belonging to the same repository, to keep them independent?
Given a repository which contains two different applications A and B (e.g. bootloader and RTOS), is it ok to copy source code from A to B in order to avoid dependencies (include's, adding A source ...
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Clean approach for designing data related dependencies between different systems
I have the following situation in my current project:
There is a system A which exports data, that will be consumed by system B.
System A is something like a webshop which exports data like orders to ...
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Why are minor versions of dependencies pinned, despite possibly having bugs?
I am an amateur developper and I deploy my (home oriented) code to containers. This is usually Python and JavaScript.
JavaScript, when saving dependencies for a further npm install, will pin the ...
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Simple circular dependency between three classes
I have this basic design with a circular dependency. Is there any solution for this? The problem is that a Machine cannot be created if a Model for that Team has been submitted.
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Is there a convenient way to include only a particular snapshot of a git repository inside another project?
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I think I may have found one possible solution for this question: git worktree. I'll have to investigate its exact workings a bit more, because I'm not entirely sure yet if it can do what I ...
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How to abstract my development environment from external depencies
I am trying to build an API server. For the register operation I send an email to the given email address and wait for user to activate his account by using the code in the email that i sent.
I use ...
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Layered architecture horizontal dependencies
I'm working on a spring boot REST service.
It's divided into three layers: REST controllers, services, persistence/DAO.
We have multiple services and persistence repositories. We have the following ...
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how to manage build and deployments from Multi repos using versions
Consider you have two repos A, B.
Let say repo A has some infrastructure code - not needed to be updated always-
but it has the code for the service we want to deploy as infra.
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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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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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