Questions tagged [dry]
DRY is short for "Don’t Repeat Yourself". This paradigm advocates to avoid code and data redundancy.
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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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How to avoid duplicating Create and Update UIs in CRUD apps
For most apps I've built which deal with CRUD operations, I end up two very similar UI pages: one for the creation of the object, one for updating it. An example would be StackExchange's UI for ...
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Should I choose repeated code in unit test or test logic? Can I avoid both?
When writing unit tests, I feel that there is a trade-off between code repetition and test logic. Example of my current (likely flawed) approach: To test this function (overly simple function for ...
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How to split out shared authorization logic across spring microservices
Currently working on a project where we have multiple services that all need to consume the same authorization service when their endpoints are hit. Right now we have the authorization boilerplate ...
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How should I test "Glue Functions" without testing that "the code I wrote is the code I wrote"?
I usually write my code in a test driven style. I write tests as specifications and then my code. It's great and useful. I always try to ignore implementation when testing and only test behaviour. I ...
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Selective method inheritance
I have a lot of classes that are just a CRUD interface for microservices. They only have a param for the endpoint and some of the methods get_list / get_item / create / update / delete / activate / ...
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Approaches for comment duplication
For code, we know approaches like DRY and we tend to extract common functionality. What approaches are recommended for comments? Perhaps it's a really open question, so I'm going to go with my ...
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DRY Violation for Logical Code Organization and Readability
I have a block of code that branches into 2 pathways, let's call them the "simple" and "complex" branch, based on user input. Either the simple or complex logic has 4 steps, let's call them A, B, C ...
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