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What is a SOLID way for creating objects dynamically using a factory?
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I want to create an instance of an object at runtime, however, the parameters used to create the object are not always the same. To help explain, I have created a simplified example (in ...
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The motivation behind the Factory Method design pattern
I'm learning about the Factory Method Desing Pattern and I'm having a hard time to understand exactly what it tries to solve and how.
Let's first introduce the example that Wikipedia uses to have a ...
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Can a class be considered as a factory even though it only creates one concrete type of objects?
I have a simple class called Link that contains some properties, and use different classes for creating different types of links.
My code looks like this:
class Link {
String reference, label, ...
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How to implement factory pattern in following case?
I have a program which downloads web pages and then scrapes html to create domain specific collection objects e.g. ProductCollection, CatalogCollection, NewsCollection and more. The idea is to create ...
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Factories and static methods
So almost every post I read about oop by purists, they keep stressing about how using static methods is anti pattern and breaks the testability of the code.
On the other hand every time I look for ...
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Should I use the Factory Pattern when instantiating objects with very different constructors?
Let's say (just for the sake of example) I have three classes that implement IShape. One is a Square with a constructor of Square(int length). Second is a Triangle with a constructor of Triangle(int ...
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