Questions tagged [patterns-and-practices]
Design patterns (repeatable solutions to commonly occurring problems) and best practices in software engineering
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How do you abstract a platform library like SDL from the graphics api?
I'm creating a basic 3D game in C++ with SDL2 and OpenGL3, and one of my learning goals for this project is to design my code around the ability to swap out SDL or OpenGL. However, the problem I'm ...
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Should release/deployment builds run tests again?
In many configurations of CI/CD pipelines I encounter, things run somewhat like this:
compilation and tests are run on a pull request
after merging, the build is triggered on the main branch, which ...
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Is casting a concrete type to an interface and using it if it successful bad practice?
I recently came across some code:
val, ok := i.(SomeInterface)
if ok {
val.Method()
}
The above is Go, and attempts to cast to an interface and then runs the method for that interface against the ...
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Deciding between two design alternatives for displaying series of screens in mobile applications?
I am developing a mobile application, and one of the features is a "story" that is essentially a series of screens. The screens can be of three main templates:
A "video" template ...
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How to handle complex logic, avoiding recalculation for performance reasons?
let's say we're building an Ecommerce Marketplace.
We have Sellers and each Seller has Products.
We want to display a list of available Products across all Sellers to Buyers.
But, we only need to ...
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Should a null block be used for semantic purposes?
I was writing a procedure that is only applicable in a particular case, but it didn't feel right to enforce it by contract or raising exceptions, because there's no problem with calling it in other ...
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how best to take a vertical slice of something already trivial?
Lets say I have a project which is something relatively simple like a copy checker for legal text files stored in git, that multiple people contribute to via pull requests that must be reviewed before ...
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Is there any benefit/viability to sharing models across API versions that have differing schemas
I have been asked to get involved with a Team that is currently having delivery issues for various reasons. During my review I came across an acceptance criteria on a user story;
If you call v1 of ...
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Storing Data For Consumption in Python
I have a program which needs some constant data, in JSON-like format. However, this data only needs to be consumed by my Python program, and by making it Python code, I can include types like datetime....
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Multiple objects using the same connection for communication, filter messages "above" or inside the objects?
I have a single connection being used by multiple devices, and I'd like to filter the messages so that each device only reacts to messages intended for it. This can be done with an unique ID field in ...
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Class design using Open and Close Methods
As the title says, Im thinking if it's a good practise to have classes that have Open and Close methods in the sense that they can be reused without a new instance being created again.
Also, if I want ...
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Logging, with optional foreign key cross reference
I am wanting to enhance a system to execute various background tasks (primarily data importation). In order to provide data for support, analysis and job status generally, I had been thinking of ...
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Pattern for Nuget Package (Abstractions, DepedencyInjections, etc.)
I've been interested in following what other successful libraries are doing with their nuget packages. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any materials to read online and I don't even know what to ...
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I wrote a class with "init" method. Should I call it from other class methods? Or leave it to the object user? (Code Design)
I have a java class with an init method. It's different from the constructor. The constructor just initializes the variables/fields. The init method connects to a database and performs some ...
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Why have a path argument when there is cwd
When writing a program that uses a working directory, e.g., PostgreSQL data directory or download target for wget, is there an advantage of having a CLI argument (or an environment variable) for such ...
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