Questions tagged [extensibility]
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Contract extensibility as it relates to enums and type unions
Say I have a contract returning a type: type CreditCard = { scheme: "Visa" | "Mastercard" } and later we decided to include Amex as card type, then making this change: type ...
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Is there a term that's kind of the opposite of 'deprecated' - that's 'in future major versions this thing will be required'
In terms of deprecation strategies, we can mark a value as deprecated and this can imply that 'this thing exists now and should work, but in future major releases this thing may disappear and will ...
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Is it okay to extend more than one class if a new type/feature is needed?
I coudn't find a better phrasing for my question and hope it is not too confusing. my question mainly targets the open/closed principle and extensibility of my program. I tried to condense everything ...
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How could Vulkan pNext design be implemented in a "safer" way?
Vulkan introduces a member .pNext of type void* in all its core structs allowing to create handles. This member purpose is to allow to extend the structure by passing a pointer another one. This is ...
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Any tradeoffs for using open methods?
I was trying to understand the use of multi-methods recently and saw several claims that they solve the Expression Problem. However, I ended concluding that it is not the multi-methods that solve it, ...
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How to model classes that can be extendable?
I have recently inherited a codebase which has a weird problem and I am trying to search for an extensible solution that can solve my issue. Consider I have a model class that is used as a model to ...
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C++: Broadcast/observer pattern with polymorphic events
I'm currently trying to implement an event-system following a broadcast/observer scheme. I have events/notifications that contain information about what is happening: class Event { public: Event(...
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Extension points via inheritance vs via delegate fields
In C#/.NET, I have a class that I want to provide extension points for. I can do this either using inheritance: public class Animal { public virtual void Speak() { } } public class Dog : Animal { ...
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Does the React (and Vue.js) frameworks support extensibility?
Please forgive me if I am mixing up the terminology here, I'm a bit unfamiliar with it. I wanted to find a way to support extensibility in a web application; I wanted a web application that was ...
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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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What are the pros and cons of using final methods (in abstract classes)
For the purpose of writing a coding styleguide, how should final methods in software design be judged? By final I mean the Object-oriented sense that a class that can be subclassed provides methods, ...
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Is it wrong to build as much granularity as possible into a REST API?
I was recently considering the difference between using raw SQL and using a query builder like knex.js for writing dynamic queries so that I get any level of granularity for filtering database tables. ...
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Design Pattern to extract arbitrary field from arbitrary file format
Lets say I have multiple file types: .json, .csv ... etc These file types come in different formats: Second json structure Extra column added to csv etc. I need to extract fields from these files; ...
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Ensure encapsulation and Open/Closed principle with Command pattern?
I'm developing a small multiplayer game. It'll be served by one websockets server and consumed by multiple consumers. As such I need to be cautious about concurrency errors. The general software ...
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Designing for 3rd Party Extensibility
I'm having trouble understanding how to provide an API to 3rd parties in order to allow extensions for desktop applications. I understand that if I'm using a compiled language (e.g. C++), I can load ...
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