Questions tagged [design-patterns]
A design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design.
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Return all and getOne in factory design pattern
Assume I have some providers for specific task which I call it TaskRunner.
for each provider I have a configuration which for instance I call it ProviderConfig.
Now I have a command that should ...
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Websocket client reconnection best practices
I wasn't sure whether to post this on StackOverflow or here. Let me know if you think it belongs on StackOverflow.
I have an application that will run semi-persistently, i.e. all the time. The ...
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Issue implementing the Command Processor pattern using MVVM for WPF?
I'm trying to implement the Command Processor pattern using MVVM for WPF. The Command Processor pattern that I'm roughly following is the one described in the book Pattern-Oriented Software ...
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State Pattern when the Behavior in Object of Type A is Dependent on the State of the Object of Type B
I have used the state pattern for my web application where a user can be in one of three states: activated, required_activation and suspended. I have created 3 states classes as given below (source is ...
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Data visualisation application for WPF and MVVM
I was wondering what is the best approach for a Data visualisation application for WPF and MVVM
The key points are:
The data is loaded, or needs just a little preparation such as pulling out ...
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Design consideration-To add or not to add a related variable in a class
I need something clarified. I have been having a discussion with someone and we have conflicting arguments. Hence, I came here to ask looking for your insights.
Say we have to implement our own stack ...
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Wrapping the UI framework
I want to write an application where I would delegate certain functionalities to 3rd party libraries. To make sure the code remains modular, I want to put these libraries behind an interface so I can ...
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Approach for store multiple relationships POO objects in relational database
I'm developing a system in which a ClassA object can have multiple ClassB and ClassC objects.
And for store these objects in a relational DB model I create the following tables:
This is a simplified ...
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Best way of organizing and storing this data in an explicit way? [closed]
I'm developing a free app to help people know how long to wait for their next bus in a specific itinerary of my country. I'm inclined to use Python and Kivy to deploy the app on multiple platforms. I ...
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Is Controller a special kind of Indirection in GRASP Design pattern?
This is Indirection according to Wikipedia
Assign the responsibility to an intermediate object to mediate between other components or services so that they are not directly coupled.
Controller seems ...
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In an MVC Application, What Goes Where?
In an Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, What goes where? What code goes to model and to controller?
I know (do I?) that business logic should be define in a model, but a lot of example I ...
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Do I want the visitor pattern when transforming an AST?
I keep looking at the ESLint source code where it seems to be using the visitor pattern to traverse and visit each node in the JS AST, and it applies rules to nodes in the AST that match particular ...
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Strategy pattern with implemented public method
New to design patterns so my question maybe silly.
I want to use strategy pattern for returning data from a databases in the same format.
Nevertheless it varies the query on the underlying database ...
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Interface design for container that holds different instances derived from a common type
I'm currently designing an interface for a container that is supposed to store references of different instances that derived from a common supertype. An analogy of it would be as following:
Suppose ...
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Multi Tenant Application - Same user in 2 tenants with separate databases and app code
What is a good design for allowing users to access multiple tenants in a multi tenant application?
I currently have a hybrid system. Some tenants are in a shared database and other tenants have their ...
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Integration with stripe, have a single source of truth or have info of the user status in our DB
So We're integrating our application with stripe and we have different products
There are 2 options :
Have stripe as a single source of truth, anytime we need to check the permissions of a user we ...
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Command pattern and object model integration
In a document editor application, is it better to implement the command pattern as a layer on top of the object model, or to deeply integrate it into the object model?
If commands are a layer on top, ...
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Structuring user story tests with variations
I'm writing the sort of tests which go through a whole user scenario e.g.
User clicks "edit profile"
User edits their name
etc.
However, I find myself needing often needing to test small ...
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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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Connecting classes by passing method references
I am trying to find a good way of allowing two objects that are separated by a intermediate object to communicate while keeping the architecture loosely coupled. A solution I have developed is to pass ...
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Controling one stream pipeline (out of two synchronous stream) based on time
[ I am not a SE so my terminologies might be absurd ]
Background
I have two stream: a and b.
Stream b comes to the processing pipeline and after some transformation gets into the database directly.
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React Redux chain-of-actions pattern - should I create new synchronous middleware for synchronous actions?
I am creating React Web application with Yii2 API and Redux-Saga which calls Yii2 API (asynchronously).
I am stuck with one especially large and complex user action (initiated by the selection of good,...
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Is it a bad practice to have an interface method to tell whether it can handle an object?
interface Resolver {
boolean canResolve(SomeInput input);
SomeOutput resolve(SomeInput input);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<Resolver> resolvers = ...;
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What we called this design pattern and it is same as strategy pattern?
abstract class BaseService {
public void doSomething();
}
class AService extends BaseService {
public void doSomething(){
// Do something...
}
}
class BService extends BaseService {
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C# Web API Requests and multipart forms with json and files and not buffering the filestream in memory
I'm looking for some C# web API architecture advise on how best to minimize my memory when doing a "multipart/form-data" request which consists of a json payload with a single file upload.
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State Pattern: Changing object behavior based on more than one field and consistency between their values and state value
I'm Trying to learn about State Pattern.
In most of State Pattern examples that I have seen, methods of class change their behavior based on just one field (I mean before applying State Pattern and I'...
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Prevent users with multiple sessions using a single use voucher
I'm working on a .Net eCommerce site that allows users to use vouchers to get free products, discounts etc. The problem I have is that there have been instances of users, who have been issued single ...
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Can a class be considered as a factory even though it only creates one concrete type of objects?
I have a simple class called Link that contains some properties, and use different classes for creating different types of links.
My code looks like this:
class Link {
String reference, label, ...
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What should be the optimal management of end user messages in N-tier architecture?
I'm curious about your thoughts on this subject that we have discussed with the people around me. Especially at the architectural stage, in which layer is the most optimal and efficient way to use the ...
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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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Query for each doucment or include IDs in document itself and query for all documents with ID?
I am working on a project where there will be different kinds of accounts that use Auth0 for auth and authz. I want to have it so that an account will query my backend to get back documents that ...
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How to structure many complex conditionals on a class
I have a class (as a protobuf) OrderChange, that represents when an order (imagine Amazon.com) changes:
message OrderChange {
Order old_order = 1;
Order new_order = 2;
}
message Order {
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Design for three classes with partially shared logic
I am looking for a suitable design which uses composition to allow three classes to share some logic.
The problem I am solving is that I have to read 3 different json configuration files from my ...
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Subclasses with same behaviour but different attributes for different inputs
Say I have two object types of the same interface MyObj (I am using python in this project so I will use the same for the explanation)
class Foo(MyObj):
a = [5, 10]
class Bar(MyObj):
a = [[1, ...
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Is returning true or throwing an exception good or bad code practice?
I am focosing on learning better design and wondered if this code is good or an antipattern? The function validate return true if data is correct, else it will throw an exception with a message to ...
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Modeling combination of two independent abstractions
I am building an app (.NET, but whatever) which is supposed to be able to send notifications to users.
Each Notification can either be a Reminder or a Newsletter, and I'll possibly add more types in ...
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Source of "... against the interface, not the implementation"
For a paper I am writing, I need to find the origin of the following two phrases:
Code against the interface, not the implementation
and
Test the interface, not the implementation
(Note: the ...
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Getters and (static) processor vs multiple processor wrappers
I've got a class which stores two data series like so. I need to do some complicated processing on each of these arrays, but for now we'll just get the average of each data series. I could either do ...
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How to convince colleagues to stop writing static classes [closed]
I recently joined a new company. After working on some projects I noticed a pattern. Every project contains a lot of static classes. A lot of static Helper classes. ApiHelper JsonHelper UmbracoHelper ...
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Inject configuration files into the injector is it an antipattern?
I'm trying to design a system that inject configuration of each component into each class.
project structure:
|features
--|component-a
component-a.service.js
component-a.config....
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How to implement state machine to card games such as poker or russian poker?
These are my class designs:
I also have Controllers where I can create table, create users add users to table, deal hands simulate user bets using PostMan (Above classes are game engine classes, I ...
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How to use abstract factory on interacting widgets
Context
In many GUI frameworks, it is very common that widgets are placed in a container to arrange them visually in a window. For example, in Gtkmm, a window with a label and a button (side by side) ...
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How to design an application for stalling file processing?
I have an application that is receiving a live stream of files, I am using active MQ for listening to the file arrival in s3. As soon as the file arrives in s3 my application downloads the file and ...
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Running series of steps depending on implementation
What is the "best way" to implement something like this:
I have a list of steps that will be iterated and ran for an IContext instance. But, some steps will only apply to a specific instance ...
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Does the builder/factories pattern apply to this problem?
I have the following code and I am not sure if the builder factory is the best approach to solve this code duplication.
createA(a, b, c, e: {e1, e2}){
return{
a
b
c
e
}
}
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Design class with different dependency requirements based on configuration
I’m struggling a bit to design the following class:
It’s a service class with multiple methods. It depends on a http client interface which must be created in the factory method and can’t be passed ...
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How to combine data from multiple sources into the same object?
I've been running into a common pattern when requesting data from multiple sources:
Have a list of objects from one source (e.g. a list of Cars) with an id property and a few other properties ...
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Is "error first" better than "if-else", why? [duplicate]
I have an eternal discussion in my work about why "error first" is "worng".
In order to ensure what I try to tell with error first is the following code pattern:
if condition:
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If it is a bad practice to use an interface if only one class will implement it, what is the purpose of IoC container?
Okay, first of all I understand the concept of IoC container! It's used to implement automatic dependency injection so you won't have to manually inject dependencies to class. It can automatically ...
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How to enforce matching, but unknown interfaces
I am challenging my OO design skills and started an ambitious project that is supposed to be highly reusable and extensible. It is supposed to be kind of a framework for evolutionary algorithms. Maybe ...
