Questions tagged [strategy]
A strategy is a general approach used to achieve goals, to address similar needs, or to solve a family of issues.
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Reconciling MVC with a strategy pattern
I am working on a Rails application which employs a classic MVC as its fundamental structure. In that structure the controller is supposed to be responsible for "which view to render when".
Now after ...
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How do you deal with comprehending abstraction in code?
When looking at a new codebase I like to start from a bottom-up approach.
Where I comprehend one file and then move up to the next abstraction.
But often times I find myself forgetting what 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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Strategy to review all occurrences of specific field in large project
The project I am working on has a status field which currently only allows YES or NO, and I am about to refactor it to allow the value MAYBE. Unfortunately, it is used over 1,000 times in 200+ files.
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Rich domain model vs strategy pattern in DDD
I've recently watched a few Pluralshigh courses on DDD by Vladimir Khorikov. He was encouraging to create a rich instead of anemic domain models. It all looked very nice in a small test-project, ...
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Algorithm for splitting players into unique group every round
For a match I have certain number of players, certain number of groups (players and groups are aliquot) and certain number of rounds to be played (players are reshuffled every round). Ideally, I'd ...
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Internal REST API versioning strategy
We are developing internal api's for integrating the server side logic (backend) with frontend (web, mobile etc). We have a java stack in our backend and front end is coded in react and react native. ...
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Objective-C: Strategy Pattern, is mainly by selector?
To use Strategy Pattern in Objective-C, I think it is mainly by selector.
To omit if...else, use Objective-C runtime, convert string matching to choose selector (Strategy).
Am my understanding ...
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Looking for a strategy to ensure name of child node stays unique in collection
Even though I'm programming in PHP, I'm open to reviewing language-agnostic suggestions, as they might point me to valuable directions.
To remove any possible confusion I feel some comments appear to ...
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Inheritance or strategy in my circular buffer
I've looked at some other threads but they don't quite answer my question, I think...
I have a CircularBuffer object which I have separated from a ThreadSafeCircularBuffer object so that the CB logic ...
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What method/ approach is used to query a user's page on a website using backslash + username? [closed]
I am working on a Servlet/JSP project, the website have users and I need to display a user's profile using the notation myDomain.com/Joe instead of myDomain.com/users.jsp?user=Joe.
An instance of my ...
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How To: .Net periodic task to validate entries in tables
I am looking for a solution following best practices to simply periodically validate database entries against some business logic.
For instance, I have the database with employees, and another table ...
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What do I use as an alternative to Domain-Driven Design, if I cannot define a Competitive-Advantage area of my system to apply it?
From all I read and watch, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), is a costly and time-consuming endeavor. In fact, everyone I have seen, including Eric Evans and Greg Young, say, don't use DDD except where you ...
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When can client code know about strategy pattern implementations?
I am considering using a strategy pattern for configuration file management, that way I can support some legacy configs. I feel pretty solid on the overall design (as its pretty standard strategy ...
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For learning purposes, how should I set about implementing an arbitrary precision library in C or C++?
I know I am reinventing the wheel. But I'm really interested in implementing arbitrary precision numbers (integers, rationals, complex, etc) in C or C++ and their algorithms. Please be patient.
My ...
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How to design a Rule Engine Validation System to be asynchronous and highly performant!
I am implementing a validation system which has some constraints, there are category of users let's say 30 and for each category there are number of rules. Actually there are 100 different rules.
I ...
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Strategy Pattern with abstract class instead of interface?
Is the strategy in the strategy pattern always an interface? What pattern would it be when the strategy is abstract?
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Best approach parsing input in multiple scenarios
I am developing an API that has one call that accepts a big JSON object.
Based on this object, there are 10 possible parsing scenarios, i.e. if field xxxx.xxx is present, go with scenario 5.
We ...
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How to build visibility into a background worker service?
I have been working on a cloud-based background worker service, and regrettably it is almost "blind". What I mean by this is it is incredibly difficult to get any insight into what is going on, aside ...
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Should you refactor all helper classes into small obects with state?
Imagine you want to have a room painted. You are the owner of this room and a Painter is capable of painting the room. There are different types of Painters: a BluePainter, a RedPainter etc. For every ...
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Implementing strategy pattern multiple variables?
I am trying to implement Strategy Pattern for handling my content serialization and deserialization.
So I have four kind of requests namely CREATE, RETRIEVE, UPDATE, DELETE and for each request I want ...
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What is the best serial port connection strategy
I am developing a program that polls a device for actvity. In the past I have always used a USB device with a pure USB device driver. The upside of this was that that device was blazingly fast. The ...
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Does such a design pattern exist? (Multi-Strategy/Multi-Traits)
Is there a design pattern that would allow a class from a hierarchy to 'subscribe to' concrete methods?
For example, say you have an abstract base class that requires the implementation of a method.
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Zero Downtime Deployment - Transitional Db Schema
Achieving Zero Downtime Deployment touched on the same issue but I need some advice on a strategy that I am considering.
Context
A web-based application with Apache/PHP for server-side processing ...
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Persistence Strategies - Filling a cache strategy
Let's say I have an interface IDataAccessObject<TSource> with CRUD methods to access a data source.
I have an implementation StrategyDataAccessObject<TSource>, which uses an strategy ...
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Best Possible Way To Write Unit Tests For HTTP Middleware
I am using this go library(https://github.com/abourget/goproxy) to create a custom proxy server app. The app is utilizing several middleware of the following form:
MyMiddlewarFunc(ctx *goproxy....
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Strategies for creating a mobile site? [closed]
I'm looking for 2nd & 3rd opinions on a general mobile strategy for a website I work with. We have decided that tablets generally have an acceptable experience with our site (especially in ...
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Why do we need a context class in strategy pattern?
For the strategy pattern, why do we need a context class to call the appropriate algorithm? Why can't we just do Strategy s = new OperationAdd()? This way, we still use polymorphism.
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Advantages of Strategy Pattern
Why is it beneficial to use the strategy pattern if you can just write your code in if/then cases?
For example: I have a TaxPayer class, and one of its methods calculates the taxes using different ...
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Strategy pattern and “Is a” relationship
Imagine, I have class IAlgo which is an interface. I have derived from him and implemented his single method called matchCount in different implementations - AlgoA1, AlgoA2, AlgoA3, AlgoB1, AlgoB2.
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Injection, strategies and OO
I'm working on refactoring a project. The business logic looks very much like using the Strategy pattern would be very beneficial, because depending on the values of three properties (let's say age, ...
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Decorater pattern or strategy pattern
I'm constructing a c# serverside application and I'm trying to do this in a way it can easily be maintained aswell as extended if needed.
So what we have is 4 different requests that need to be done (...
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Should factory make context or concrete strategies objects in strategy-factory pattern?
In a typical strategy pattern
class Strategy
{
public:
virtual int execute() const = 0;
}
class StrategyA : public Strategy
{
public:
int execute() const override;
}
class StrategyB : ...
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Pattern for caching DAOs: strategy or decorator?
I'm building a php system with the Services/DAOs/Domain Models pattern, and now is the time to implement a caching system for the DAOs.
Would you use a decorator pattern, or maybe the strategy ...
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Creating/updating entity save strategy
Please note: although I'm talking about Java in this question, what I'm asking about here should really be language-agnostic.
I am dabbling in OR/M for the first time, and have cooked up the ...
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How to organize conversion logic for strategy pattern?
I have a Color class. It has a property model which is a class that implements ColorModel interface, this property could be a RGB, Hex or HSL classes which implementing ColorModel interface.
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How to compute data for charting?
I'm building a charting component that displays data directly from the raw data records. It should be able to filter data (subset) and then perform some rudimentry maths on the data (sum, avg, etc). ...
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Strategy vs Publiser-subscriber pattern
Let's say I have a channel endpoint where I receive messages. Because I want to process messages in a different way depending on its Header property, rather than create a massive switch I create ...
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Strategy game, how do I calculate the parallel actions?
I am building a strategy game where multiple units(5 - 20) fighting each other.
I have a game logic that calculate all the actions that been done on each turn, and send it to the game engine to ...
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What do I gain by using the Strategy pattern in this case?
I wrote a program with Java that plays simple music. Currently chords have only one way ('strumming pattern') to be played. I want to expand this and create different 'strumming patterns' that chords ...
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MVC: Where should I store interchangeable algorithms used by the Model (whose names also need to be accessible to the View)?
Please consider a program, where the user chooses an algorithm from a list, and the Strategy pattern is utilized to set this algorithm as the model's operation.
For example, an image procession ...
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Is it better to pass the whole object or use a setter?
Here is my initial code that I would like to modify by using strategy design pattern.
class Bar
{
int a;
int b;
...
}
Class Foo
{
Bar *bar;
bool action1(){
// this function does a ...
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Implementing a strategy pattern with dependency injection
Okay, so the goal here is to implement a strategy pattern that can be tested using any sort of automated testing tool.
I've been struggling with this problem conceptually for a few weeks now and I ...
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Inheritance vs 'specification' by fields
I'm currently reading 'Head first design patterns' and I already have a few questions on the first chapter of the book.
This chapter introduces the 'prefer composition over inheritance' design ...
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Image strategy on Android
I am creating an application with lots of photos. They will take > 100 mb on memory. So far I have 3 ideas:
Place it in @drawable - app will be heavy
Download by JSON and place in java ...
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Strategy with using SVN to switch between test and production server. (with maintaining configuration files) [closed]
I would like to know your opinion about my setup right now, how I do things with SVN and if you could find some better solution for me. I'd appreciate it very much if someone could come up with some ...
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Is context inheritance, as shown by Head First Design Patterns' Duck example, irrelevant to strategy pattern?
In Head First Design Patterns it teaches the strategy pattern by using a Duck example where different subclasses of Duck can be assigned a particular behavior at runtime. From my understanding the ...
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Best strategy in SQL
Recently, a colleague told me that it wasn't advisable to make conditions in the join clauses. Instead he suggested to make conditions in the where clause. He told me that the SQL engine was optimized ...
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How to handle “animated” game where the visual should “animate” instead of abruptly change?
I've been playing around and learning javascript/KineticJS by making some simple games (think like board games).
I have the game model that is relatively logically simple. When a "move" is given to ...
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Do integrated systems increase development time and cause inflexibility?
I work for a large financial company that manages money for thousands of clients. This company has very complex business processes and they operate in a very dynamic environment.
This is a fairly ...
