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Your constructor smells

A code like the following looks as a “code smell” definitely: public ProductProvider( IProductDataProvider dataProvider = null, IProductDecorator decorator = null, IProductSearchCriteriaParser parser = null, IProductInventoryDataProvider inventoryProvider = null, IProductSessionDataProvider sessionProvider = null, IContentProvider contentProvider = null, IProductQueueProvider queueProvider = … Continue reading

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“Black Hole” software anti-pattern

During digging into eCommerce5 codebase and discussing ongoing impressions with my colleague,  I just discovered a software design anti-pattern I called “Black Hole”. As a workaround I declare a rule: Any variables passed into constructor then should be available through a … Continue reading

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