Questions tagged [libraries]
A library is a collection of resources providing data and/or services for developing independent software.
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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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Alternative approaches to semantic versioning for an API-wrapper library
I'm thinking of starting to version this header-only library I've been working on - which is a thin wrapper library.
I'm not going to use semantic versioning, because "the library" and "the API" are ...
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Create a common interface to use N libraries and define specific behaviours
I am creating a browser automation library that is capable of using Puppeteer(automates chromium) and Selenium(automates all major browsers), but the goal is to also be able to add more libraries in ...
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How to figure out if a certain technology/library is used in development of a proprietary application [closed]
Not sure if the question is relevant here, but basically it is expressed on the title.
I'm curious to know if a certain library/technology is used in a proprietary software. How can I satisfy my ...
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Managing compatibility and dependencies in code library
I manage a library that is made of multiple components, there is some dependencies between some of these components, for example I have a core library for common code base that is referenced by other ...
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How to keep developers informed about a code library in large organizations?
Although our products often have the same requirements, the solutions are always developed anew. From different people, with different good results and different quality. A code library especially for ...
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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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Public class members in PIMPL
I'm attempting to use the PIMPL idiom. This is my public header file in include/foo.h:
class FooPrivate;
class Foo {
public:
Foo();
~Foo();
private:
FooPrivate* p_impl;
};
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Benefits of Java's InputStream and OutputStream over .NET's Stream
Java has a notion of separate InputStreams and OutputStreams. Your code reads from an InputStream and writes to an OutputStream.
.NET does not have this distinction, instead it has a single Stream ...
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Refactor namespaces in a library while keeping backwards-compatibility
We developed a generic .NET library for our line-of business applications. This is what our namespace/class structure looked like 5 years ago:
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AcmeCorp.Tools.ExcelWriter
AcmeCorp.Tools....
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Do I need provide translation for an UI library
I have a library for a lockscreen in Android, that includes diferent dilogs for fingerprints, texts and all that stuff. My question is: What the best practice to provide localization. Should I have ...
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Replacing a shared library with a shared microservice
I understand that generally shared libraries are a microservice antipattern, and the disadvantages of shared libraries in a microservice world are well documented.
However, I have not been able to ...
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Is there such a thing as linking to too many dynamic libraries in Linux?
I'm currently considering breaking down one of my libraries in some 20 Debian sub-projects. Each part is already pretty much a standalone bit in the existing large library.
What I'm wondering is the ...
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How to communicate data from a threaded library?
Until recently I was involved in the development of a library to be used for acquiring data from a hardware device via a server application. The server application sends out messages via a ZMQ ...
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What is the difference between a static library and an archive library?
In the comments of a recent answer, I equated a static library with an archive of compiled object files.
The response was that they are not the same, so what is the difference?
To clarify - gcc ...
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Should you “rebrand” the exception of the library you're using?
Say your making a library Foo that depends on a 3rd-party library Bar.
Bar throws a custom exception \OtherVendor\Bar\CustomException.
Is it recommended to just throw that exact exception to your ...
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Name for a library that provides an API for other libraries
I've been working on a library at work which provides a simplified API for a few underlying libraries (face recognition, text to speech, etc.).
My boss asked me the best way to describe this concept ...
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Is there a mismatch between XSL and OOP? [closed]
context and background:
I prefer OOP for the most part and find it, largely, more intuitive -- this is my bias.
When I read that functional language x is better than OOP language y I think to myself:...
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Should a high-performance API expose low-performance utility functions?
Context: I'm working on an open source project to solve a problem that comes up in ad-tech and social media data mining: indexing boolean expression trees, and matching them against incoming documents....
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Distributing C# Dlls to Customers on Application Install
I am currently working on a software library that will be used to develop Class Libraries.
These class libraries can be run by our application running on the user's
machine
The application uses the ...
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Is it a good idea to make common Electron libraries available globally on Windows? [closed]
I build and run many Electron apps on Windows. I noticed that all of them have the same common api files / libraries to run. They all take about 30mb of space.
I'm thinking of installing these files ...
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Should you use a library when you can do the task without it? [closed]
I am in a situation where I can use an open source JavaScript plugin to fulfill a task. But when I tried to use it,I found myself I have to redesign lot of things of what I already have done,and it ...
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Is it good design to provide interfaces in a library that would only be used for unit testing?
Contrapositive-ish question: What is the design reason a library class would not implement an interface as a convenience to the developer? (e.g. the .Net library class FileInfo)
The FileInfo class ...
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Dynamically load user code from a common library
My project aims to provide a common interface between multiple different HDL simulators, so users can write test benches that will work no matter the simulator used. In this situation, it is the ...
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Writing an application that calls another application for some tasks: how it works?
I have written a C++ code that calls a solver called CPLEX to solve an integer linear optimization problem (under Ubuntu 18.04). I have three sets of data and I use make command to create 3 ...
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What makes PHP a language and jQuery a library?
PHP is written in C, but is considered a language. What makes it different from something like jQuery which is considered to be a library of Javascript? Why is PHP not a library of C or jQuery a ...
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C++ - Is it a good idea to make separate headers as API?
Let's say I have a library code main.cpp, where are 3 classes implemented: Inner1, Inner2 and Outer. Inner1 and Inner2 are only being used in main.cpp and they're not going to be used anywhere else.
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Decoupled design using static interfaces
Now first I want to mention that I am not quite sure what is the term describing the issue at hand but I hope that I can illustrate it with some code.
Problem: A shared class library defines an ...
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Shared classes between namespaces, how to distribute them?
Some time ago I read from this book that namespaces inside libraries should be distributed in a way that inner namespaces have more concrete classes than their parent namespaces. We can find an ...
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Error Handling Best Practice for External Library
My development environment specifically is .NET and I'm writing a DLL to be compiled and referenced in other .NET programs we'll be writing going forward.
My question is: In that DLL, what is the ...
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How do huge open source libraries get maintained while having code far from “clean code” practices?
I'm still inexperienced to write high quality code, so I read books addressing the issue such as Clean Code by Robert C. Martin, and keep checking code of well-known libraries to improve my skills.
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Microservice Architecture: Localizing core logic in a separate code base
I stepped away from a project for a few weeks. Before leaving the organization was discussing an architectural pattern for our microservices. An instance typically serves two roles in our organization....
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Technical documentation vs Software design documentation
I am trying to start a documentation about a class library that is already finished/developed.
The purpose of the documentation is to be used by other developers in order to understand what kind of ...
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Testing framework upgrades
Due to many vulnerabilities disclosures, we had to upgrade our core framework, on which large parts of our system depend. (In our case, it was Spring framework version from 4.3.16., but that is just ...
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Best practices on sharing code between open source libraries
I have an Android library used by a decent amount of people, let's call it library A.
I am building a second library, library B.
The two libraries are conceptually related, they solve different ...
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Should a game engine be outputted as a dynamic or a static library?
I wanted to ask a probably very simple question should a game engine be a dynamic link library (.dll) or a static library(.lib)?
Currently, I am doing the dynamic link route, this is influenced by ...
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Large executable size due to libraries/frameworks
My question sounds a bit dumb.
Usually we are suggested to use existing libraries or frameworks, to avoid reinventing the wheel, or to achieve some "good practices" (e.g. during software distribution)...
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Using a macro for a libraries namespace?
In some code bases (such as hydra, and thrust's tuple implementation) I see namespaces defined entirely with macros. It appears the reason for this is so that you can configure the namespace to your ...
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How to minimize a Java library's exposed interface surface while breaking down the library into subpackages?
I'm making a library or two for and Android app and I want to keep the library's exposed interfaces to a minimum to avoid the abstraction leaking everywhere by avoiding making all of the classes '...
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Throwing custom exceptions in library: do I throw concrete ones or their superclass?
I am designing a library that abstracts a typical CRUD http service named FooService.
In this library I am throwing different exceptions like FooServiceClientException for network related errors or ...
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Cross-platform library: how to organize project?
Our company develops and sells a cross-platform C++ library. We distribute binary only versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, etc. The only source code the customers get is the header ...
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Should I use a physical units library for modelling domain properties if I don't need to perform computations on them?
I'm working on the data model of a service describing houses and flats. This involves storing quantitative physical properties of certain features of the premises, for example:
Speed of the Internet ...
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Why are developers still using proprietary third-party libraries? [closed]
As the open source world is fairly advanced now and you can find an open source implementation of pretty much everything, why are people/developers still using the obscure/proprietary libraries? In ...
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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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How to control optional dependencies of a header-only library in `CMake`?
I am developing my own header-only library that I want to use as a framework in other software. I am using CMake for setting up demo targets, tests, and so on.
However, I am unsure how to deal with ...
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Should a file reader library API throw exceptions?
I am developing a (Java) library providing an API to read a file in a specific format into an object. The format is basically a map, and specifies valid values for some of the keys, and valid types ...
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Read Only Generic data access layer Best practice
I am trying to write some art of "generic" data access library to access the data of my company's ERP Software, which is our main/core application where all our related data is managed.
I am a ...
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Should I use value objects creating them via factory method and have only getters or just write DTO's with constructor and getters/setters?
I've been using the APIs of a ticketing service which returns arrays of data more or less complex based on the entrypoint called. In order to simplify my life when consuming such API I wrote some ...
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What is the differnce between an API and a library? [closed]
I have a created a Java project. My project is a collection of classes that allow a programmer to manage local networks (create network, delete network-access to device, get information of SSID) and ...
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(System) Hooks for embedded libraries
With the inability to go into to much detail, imagine the following situation:
You are developing a library that needs to run on various embedded platforms (AVR, ARM, etc..). Some functionality of ...
