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. public class ...
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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. Example: import ...
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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 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 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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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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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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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 } Assume that we want to handle exceptions ...
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