Questions tagged [anti-patterns]
An anti-pattern is a behavior or practice that is common despite being ineffective or counterproductive.
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Is there a name for this anti-pattern? (reference to a class member passed to another class method) [closed]
Is there a name for this anti-pattern?
A reference to a class member is being passed to another class method, rather than having the class method set the class member directly.
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Is it an anti-pattern to support different parameter types when using a dynamically-typed language?
In the Python code base we inherited there are several functions that check parameter types and try to "accommodate" different types. Example:
def process_data(arg):
json_ = {}
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What do you call an enum that translates its own values?
I see this pattern a lot, especially with countries, or more generally regions. An enum is defined with additional fields and with methods that translate to and from these values.
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In poltergeist, whats wrong with "solely to trigger or initialize several other objects"? Isn't it is a good use of encapsulation and reuse?
After reading What differentiates function objects from poltergeists?, according to the definition of poltergeist, I still don't understand why would "poltergeist" be a bad pattern:
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Can chatty microservices be okay to use if there is a specific use case for them?
Introduction
Hi everyone,
in my company we are using microservice approach and of course are trying to do it as correct as possible. There is a new requirement coming up where I have laid out a ...
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Is using an UId to hash Mutable Entities an anti-pattern?
In the context of an object-oriented language, such as Dart, I have an abstract entity which has a single property called id (which is incrementally uniquely generated to make sure there are no-...
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Is it anti-pattern to obtaining public static data from a function?
In C programming, I have a set of information, and I have to ways of providing it to user:
construct a data structure and provide it as an object.
write a function to read them out and return them.
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Is module scoped initialisation considered a bad practice?
A module app.js includes another module service.js. The service.js module/file contains some functions but also does some module scoped initialisations(registry variable).
// service.js
const ...
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Is having many thin factories an antipattern?
I need to perform the following task: for a user [email protected], store a blob of data into their dedicated data store.
DataStoreService is what actually stores the blob of data in the user's store, ...
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If you use Inversion of Control, what alternatives to obfuscated function calls exist?
Consider a class that follows the obfuscated function call anti-pattern. I've also seen these called "stupid classes". The definition of such a class is that it only has one public method ...
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Are there existing term(s) for a 1-1 child-parent table anti-pattern?
NOTE: Please don't respond by telling me that I probably don't understand what I am looking at. You can't possibly know that and it's wrong. Just don't answer if that's all you have to say.
I'm ...
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Are "Distributed Enums" an Anti-pattern in non-OOP like they seem to be considered in OOP?
I have recently read about the so-called "distributed enum anti-pattern." In particular, as it relates to using enums in conditional statements. (The idea is apparently that if you were to ...
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How do you fix the wrong-case-sensitivity dictionary setting bug-pattern?
There is a coding anti-pattern I've noticed (while using .Net). You declare a data class, which is supposed to have a dictionary field (or get/set Property), and lets call it 'Properties', for the ...
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What is the anti-pattern for modules that group objects of the same type? [closed]
In MVC, I often seen all models in a models.py module, all views in a views.py module, and the controller - you guessed it - in a controller.py module. In other projects, I sometimes see all exception ...
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Creating an abstraction just for exception handling - a pattern or anti-pattern?
Assume that an external library or framework not under our control exposes a Controller API:
abstract class Controller {
abstract fun call(): Result
}
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