Questions tagged [design]
Questions about problem solving and planning for a solution through software design.
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Should businesses invest money in documenting product knowledge and system architecture?
The consequence of a lack of product and system architecture documentation is an increased learning curve and duplicate work.
When documentation is poor, is this typically a conscious business ...
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Functionality design: Multiple sources, multiple consumers with configuration
It is a Design Problem which I am listing out here.
I have multiple event sources in my app, each one produces events with the different set of data (but each source is producing only one type of ...
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Token-based registration
I'm trying to create a system where only users with a valid token can register. You may think of the token as a String which allows the user to register in my system.
The token should cover:
Status: ...
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Processing data in a cluster with multiple tasks
The goal is to provide a scaleable system implementing multiple data processing tasks which can be seen as a graph. Data objects will travel that graph. Most object will visit the same nodes in the ...
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When designing a web application with Vue.js and ASP.NET Core, is ASP.NET solely for the API?
When creating a web application from scratch with ASP.NET MVC Core (using Visual Studio 2017) and using Vue.js, is the MVC Core part of the application solely for the API? What other function would ...
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Is a setter with the composed object as a parameter better or separate setters for each parameter within the composed object?
I have two ideas on how to proceed with an availability class but I'm not sure which one is better.
public class TimeRange {
private Timestamp startTime;
private Timestamp endTime;
public TimeRange()...
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How thoroughly should you document business flows for a product or system you are learning?
I work on applications that have user documentation but it is not organized or updated to the current release.
Is it worth my time to create my own documentation with screenshots and notes on all the ...
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(Fuzzy) Data duplication detection - scoring systems strategy
Many systems that store data in a structured manner (although this is marked language agnostic, the origin of this question is an MS SQL database) struggle with duplicates.
Taking a physical person/...
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Combining composite, decorator and visitor patterns
I am currently working on a project where I need to manipulate a tree-like data structure, which I implemented with a composite pattern.
I want to be able to do different actions on this data ...
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Improved design for a turn-based multiplayer game using AI?
I'm trying to decide which is the best architecture for a turn-based multiplayer game where the players can be either humans or AI and the UI is optional, for instance because the game can just be ...
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Too strong of coupling between aggregate roots?
In an effort to save this question, I have re-written it. The original question was regarding how to associate aggregate roots. I have re-factored the code slightly but believe this may couple the ...
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Is it better to initialize semaphores in shared memory or give them as command line arguments? (C++)
I am on a project for which I have to spawn many different processes, all in different executables, and there will be some shared memory segments and some semaphores to synchronize them. I use an "...
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Would I need a web framework if the app is running locally and not in the net?
I need to make an Employee Payroll application and the client specifically stated that the application will run on their computer locally and will not be hosted anywhere in the internet.
I can code ...
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Running a local instance of ElasticSearch on a REST API - is this feasible?
So, I'm looking at elastic search api, and the way you interact with it is, you excecute the ES binaries and make http requests on localhost (to insert, delete, whatever).
Eg:
curl -XPOST https://...
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How correct this little game design without removing its design pattern?
Given is a design of a video game in which a player has several possibilities to adjust his character:
Game designers realized it's senseless to be a fire-elemental and water-elemental at the same ...
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Is it common for seemingly small feature additions to involve changing many functions?
I wrote a binary calculator & binary teaching program in the Rust programming language. I was taking an iterative approach in that I decided to first get a basic "learn binary" game started. This ...
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WCF service contract for dynamic response based on input request. C# [closed]
Below is a sample format of response and equivalent service contract of my web service looks like.
<Players>
<Player>
<Name>Sachin</Name>
<Sport>Cricket</...
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How to restore to the correct state when the running process may get shut down thus missing some events?
Here are the requirements: (not the real case, just very simplied version)
There is some sort of promotion which lasts for a week.
The selected users who may benefit from the promotion is fixed at ...
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Are formal Product Specifications still relevant? [on hold]
I had a conversation with a recruiter recently. As a contract engineer, I've worked several jobs over the years and it's been ages since I saw a formal specification. Confluence pages, yes. Jira ...
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Making execution of Python script fool-proof beyond adding shebang
Assume that a Python package (available via PyPI) is too difficult for novice users to utilize. Specifically, typing python2 path_to_package/start_GUI.py in the command line, which opens a TKinter GUI,...
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“State” pattern and encapsulation
Suppose we have the following classes:
As you see, it's an implementation of the State Pattern.
Basically, the Order class proxies the pay() and cancel() method calls to it's concrete OrderState ...
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Java Class Design
I need to send a json response. I use the jackson library to convert the class to json. I have a core java class to which I need to add some more fields to create my json response. I came with two ...
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CQRS across bounded contexts to generate reports with possible business logic
Where do you draw the line for how much logic can go in your read models? For example, we have 2 BCs: Inventory and Sales. We need to generate reports regarding inventory levels on specific dates: ...
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Is it a code smell to expose a public method just for testing purposes? [duplicate]
Is it a code smell if the consumers of a class do not need a particular public method of the said class, but having the method simplifies its testing significantly?
Consider the following example:
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How do I know how reusable my methods should be? [closed]
I am minding my own business at home and my wife comes to me and says
Honey.. Can you print all the Day Light Savings around the world for 2018 in the console? I need to check something.
And I am ...
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A good way to represent an object with multiple interconnected states?
I want to program a simple budget application. In my application, the budget is divided into budget periods (months by default, but it can be bi-weekly or weekly periods). In each period there is a ...
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Firmware Design Document (FDD) for an embedded system
What is a firmware design document (FDD) in terms of an embedded system?
I am working on developing an application that would be working on a customised board similar to the Xilinx Zynq Development ...
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In MVC + SOA Architecture, What is the Rationale for Placing Business Logic in Models?
When writing web applications I place business logic in controllers. This has worked well for my small App Dev team- our applications run reliably, perform well, and the code is easy to maintain. ...
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fall-through switch for executing a sequence of steps
My program needs to execute a sequence of steps from start to end. But based on different input the start point will vary, e.g, some will run from the first step to end, some will run from the 2nd ...
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Choosing between the lesser of two evils — bad design?
I have two classes, Bar and Baz. Both subclass the abstract class Foo which has a method doThing(). Bar implements a functional interface Now which contains method doThingNow() whereas Baz implements ...
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subclass with no logic of abstract class
I have a class named Change which should be abstract and have some basic methods.
I have classes Insert, Update and Delete that extends Change.
In the case of Insert, Update I just use extend and add ...
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Is storing configurations in memory more performance and maintenance efficient? [closed]
My teammate has this class which contains a lot of Strings:
public class Config {
/**
* List of status
*/
public static final String IN = "bla*";
public static final String ...
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Is putting related functions into a stateful class just for testability purposes a code smell?
Take the following JavaScript module as an example of a utility class helper file that exposes many related utility functions.
This module initializes the state of module and the exported functions ...
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Service Design - Data-orientation vs. Role/Goal-orientation
For a simple web application, I am designing web services to expose the application functionality (mostly data storage / retrieval, but also data processing). As the application is not too complex, I ...
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Using generics on interfaces when implementation is not generic
Is it acceptable practice to put generics on an interface when the implementation will not be generic? Lets say that my project will have many classes that read data from the database. I may make a ...
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Design pattern for creating object hidden from client
I am having difficulty understanding which design pattern would be best for the following scenario. An application uses a database. That database can either be the production version (SQL) or a test ...
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What Is A Redux-Glorified-Setter?
I see this phrase as an alternative name for badly designed action creators because they have a lot of dispatching.
On the other hand, isn't it the purpose of action creators? to centralize ...
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Factory pattern or builder pattern ? which one is suited for reading Finite Element Model data from a text file?
A follow up to another question (Making a design decision about reading model data from an input file).
I wish to ask another question regarding builder or factory pattern. (I read that builder is ...
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Making a design decision about reading model data from an input file
I am writing a finite element software in C++ and Qt. I want to load the input data to the model. I have a Model class that holds the data and does the work. I have created a simple lexer and parser ...
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What are the pros and cons of keeping most of an application's state in a single struct?
In my application, I have a few classes. Many of these classes share common state like a reference to the logger for example. For example, both A and B require some common state to get their job done.
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How to ensure separation and inward dependencies between architectural layers in Python?
Suppose a large-scale project is being developed in Python 3.7. Some layered architecture is chosen: "clean architecture", "onion" or "hexagonal". The Dependency rule in it only allows inward-...
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Where to implement method to make a logical copy of an object
I am busy developing code that processes a bunch of objects that represent monthly reports for regions (e.g. one instance per region per month). Let's call them RegionMonthlyReport objects. At the end ...
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Software Architecture with C# and WPF
We have the need to develop an offline desktop application for a measurement equipment.
While having quite a bit of experience in C++, We are new to WPF and VS in general.
This software will have a ...
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Circular dependency exists logically or physically and can be it broken with IDs?
So ran into an issue with circular dependency that looked like this:
public class A
{
public List<B> Bs { get; private set;}
public void AddB(B b)
{
Bs.Add(b);
}
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Overview of how to build an “Actions/Activity” feature like the one in trello, where all actions are displayed in a last in time descending order
If I wanted to build a feature into my app as the one in trello where the latest actions of the team are displayed in a list order in descending (time). How would you design such a system to track ...
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C++ Gof Design Patterns heavily depends on new or shared_ptr
I'm trying to learn the best practices for code design and reuse in C++ so I am going through the well known GoF Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
I noticed that nearly ...
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Inheritance: When only some concrete objects need to share state
I have a series of classes that represent widgets in a layout system. The base class for all of these concrete widget types is Widget. If I have a Button and a Text Box, these both derive from Widget.
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Separate server for Flask-SocketIO chat functionality?
I currently have a Flask application which acts as the backend for my website. I intend to add live private chat functionality to my website using Flask-SocketIO.
I was wondering, is it better to ...
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Downcastings refactored using generics
I am willing to refactor some code that acts like a controller class executing work embedded in other classes. On one side it looks good as the controller is generic and what changes has been well ...
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Thin Controller: Make a Controller Service wrap other Services?
Say you have a HomepageController that' suppose to show all the blogs, users, gallery, and some members-only info (for logged-in users)
Normally, it looks like this:
<?php
class ...
