3 oo principles

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Object-Oriented Design

Principles

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What goes wrong with software?

You start with a clear picture in your mind what the

software should be. The clarity of the design helps you to

get to the first release.

Then something goes wrong, the software starts to rot:

changes and additions are harder and harder to make,

you are forced to let go of the original design, eventually even the

simplest changes terrify you because of rippling unexpected effects,

and you must redesign the whole software.

You started with good intentions, so what went wrong ?

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Bad signs, symptoms of rotting design

Rigidity (S cng nhc)

code difficult to change (no continuity)

changes propagate via dependencies

Fragility (S yu t)

even small changes can cause cascading effects

code breaks in unexpected places having no conceptual

relationship with the area that was changed (no protection)

Immobility (S khng linh ng)

code is so tangled that it's impossible to reuse anything

no composability

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Bad signs, symptoms of rotting design

Viscosity

design preserving ways of working are harder than hacks

developement environment is slow and inefficient

Needless complexity (S phc tp khng cn thit)

design contains elements that are not currently useful

results from too much anticipating future needs

Opacity (S ti ngha)

the tendency of a module to become more difficult to

understand

a constant effort is needed to keep code readable

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Causes of rotting design

Inevitably changing requirements

"All systems change during their life-cycles. This must be

born in mind when developing systems expected to last

longer than the first version."

Ivar Jacobson, OOSE 1992

Poor dependency management

Dependencies can be controlled

Tools:

OO-design principles, desing patterns

Guidelines: coupling, cohesion

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OO Principles

To create reusable, extensible and maintainable OO systems

Underlie the patterns, help you to cope changes.

Design Principles from Design Pattern.

Encapsulate what varies

Favor Composition Over Inheritance

Program To An Interface, Not An Implementation

Principles of class design.

(SRP) The Single Responsibility Principle

(OCP) The Open Closed Principle

(LSP) The Liskov Substitution Principle

(DIP) The Dependency Inversion Principle

(ISP) The Interface Segregation Principle

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Design Principles from Design Pattern

Principle 1


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Separate what changes from what stays the same

Identify the aspects of application that vary and

separate them from what stay the same

Take the parts that vary and ancapsulate them, so

that later you can alter or extend without affecting

those that don't vary

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Principle 2

Favor Composition Over

Inheritance

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Composition

"HAS-A" relationship

Method of reuse in which new functionality is

obtained by creating an object composed of other

objects

The new functionality is obtained by delegating

functionality to one of the objects being composed

Composition can be: "By reference" or "By

value"

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Advantages/Disadvantages Of Composition

Advantages:

Contained objects are accessed by the containing class

solely through their interfaces

"Black-box" reuse, since internal details of contained

objects are not visible - Good encapsulation

Can be defined dynamically at run-time through objects

acquiring references to other objects of the same type

Disadvantages:

Resulting systems tend to have more objects

Interfaces must be carefully defined in order to use many

different objects as composition blocks

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Inheritance

"IS-A" relationship

Method of reuse in which new functionality is

obtained by extending the implementation of an

existing object

The generalization class (the superclass) explicitly

captures the common attributes and methods

The specialization class (the subclass) extends the

implementation with additional attributes and

methods

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Advantages/Disadvantages Of Inheritance

Advantages:

New implementation is easy, since most of it is inherited

Easy to modify or extend the implementation being reused

Disadvantages:

Breaks encapsulation, since it exposes a subclass to implementation details of its superclass

"White-box" reuse, since internal details of superclasses are often visible to subclasses

Subclasses may have to be changed if the implementation of the superclass changes

Implementations inherited from superclasses can not be changed at run- time

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Inheritance vs Composition Example public class InstrumentedHashSet extends HashSet {

// The number of attempted element insertions

private int addCount = 0;

public InstrumentedHashSet(Collection c) { super(c); }

public InstrumentedHashSet(int initCap, float loadFactor){

super(initCap, loadFactor);

}

// overide method

public boolean add(Object o) {

addCount++;

return super.add(o);

}

// overide method

public boolean addAll(Collection c) {

addCount += c.size();

return super.addAll(c);

}

public int getAddCount() {

return addCount;

}

}

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Inheritance vs Composition Example

Looks good, right. Lets test it! public static void main(String[] args) {

InstrumentedHashSet s = new InstrumentedHashSet();

s.addAll(Arrays.asList(new String[]

{"Snap","Crackle","Pop"}));

System.out.println(s.getAddCount());

}

We get a result of 6, not the expected 3. Why?

Because the internal implementation of addAll() in the HashSet superclass itself invokes the add() method.

So first we add 3 to addCount in InstrumentedHashSets addAll(). Then we invoke HashSets addAll(). For each element, this addAll() invokes the add() method, which as overridden by InstrumentedHashSet adds one for each element.

The result: each element is double counted.

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Inheritance vs Composition Example

This is "fragile base class" problem:

Implementation details of our superclass affected the operation of our subclass. There are several ways to fix this.

Fix problem: use composition.

Lets write an InstrumentedSet class that is composed of a Set object. Our InstrumentedSet class will duplicate the Set interface, but all Set operations will actually be forwarded to the contained Set object.

InstrumentedSet is known as a wrapper class, since it wraps an instance of a Set object

This is an example of delegation through composition!

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Inheritance vs Composition Example public class InstrumentedSet implements Set {

private final Set s;

private int addCount = 0;

public InstrumentedSet(Set s) {this.s = s;}

public boolean add(Object o) {

addCount++;

return s.add(o);

}

public boolean addAll(Collection c) {

addCount += c.size();

return s.addAll(c);

}

public int getAddCount() {return addCount;}

// Forwarding rest methods of the Set interface methods public void clear() { s.clear(); }

public boolean contains(Object o) { return s.contains(o); }

public boolean isEmpty() { return s.isEmpty(); }

...

}

Go To

Decorator

Pattern!

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Inheritance/Composition Example

Agent- password- authorizationLevel

Passenger- frequendFlyerID- reservation

Person- name- address

Lm th no biu din i tng va l Passenger va

l Agent?

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Inheritance/Composition Example

Passenger- frequendFlyerID- reservation

Person- name- address

Agent- password- authorizationLevel

Composition can resolve!

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Inheritance/Composition Summary

Both composition and inheritance are important methods of reuse

Inheritance was overused in the early days of OO development

Over time we've learned that designs can be made more reusable and simpler by favoring composition

Of course, the available set of composable classes can be enlarged using inheritance

So composition and inheritance work together

But our fundamental principle is:

Favor Composition Over Inheritance

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Principle 3

Program To An Interface, Not

An Implementation

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Interface

An interface is the set of methods one object knows it can

invoke on another object

An object can have many interfaces.

an interface is a subset of all the methods that an object implements.

A type is a specific interface of an object

Different objects can have the same type and the same object can have

many different types

An object is known by other objects only through its

interface

Interfaces are the key to pluggability!

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Implementation vs Interface Inheritance

Implementation Inheritance (Class Inheritance)

an object's implementation is defined in terms of another's objects implementation

a mechanism for extending an application's functionality by reusing functionality in parent classes.

It lets you define a new kind of object rapidly in terms of an old one.

Interface Inheritance (Subtyping)

describes when one object can be used in place of another object

define families of objects with identical interfaces - usually by inheriting from an abstract class.

polymorphism depends on it.

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Program to an interface, not an

implementation

Don't declare variables to be instances of particular concrete classes. Instead, commit only to an interface defined by an abstract class

Advantages:

Clients are unaware of the specific class of the object they use

One object can be easily replaced by another

Loosens coupling

Increases likelihood of reuse

Improves opportunities for composition since contained objects can be of any class that implements a specific interface

Disadvantages:

Modest increase in design complexity

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Program to Interface Example

Program to implement:

Car c = new Car(); c.left();

Program to interface:

IManeuverable c = new Car(); c.left();

Hoc

public void travel(IManeuverable vehicle) { vehicle.setSpeed(35.0); vehicle.forward(); vehicle.left(); vehicle.climb(); }

Maneuver the vehicle without being concerned about what the actual class is (car, boat, submarine)

Car Submarine Boat

IManeuverable

+ left() + right() + forward() + reverse() + climb() + dive() + setSpeed() + getSpeed()

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Principles of class design

Principle 1

Single Responsibility

Principle:

A class should have only one

reason to change

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Single Responsibility Principle

Also known as cohesion

Rational behind the principle:

When the requirements change, that change will be manifest through a change in responsibility among the classes.

Requirement changes often are restricted to a few cohesive responsibilities

To avoid coupling responsibilities, a class should have only one responsibility, one reason to change

Violation of SRP causes dependencies between modules that are hard to anticipate (fragility)

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What is a "responsibility"?

A responsibility is thought of being a larger set of

functionalities that serves one purpose.

Seeing the responsibilities of a class may be hard

You really can not understand the responsibilities of a class

without understanding the needs of the clients of that class.

Should look at responsibilities as "reasons to change",

i.e. how are possible changes in the needs of the clients reflected to

a single module or class.

A responsibility is an axis of change if that change

will really occur.

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Example design that violates SRP

The Rectangle class has two responsibilities.

One is to provide a mathematical model of the geometry of a rectangle - area() method.

The other is to render the rectangle on a graphical user interface - draw() method.

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SRP Example (con't)

A better design is to separate the two responsibilities into

two completely different classes

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Separating the responsibility Example

Separating the responsibilities of modem into two

interfaces decouples the two responsibilities: Data Chanel

and Connection

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Principle 2

The Open-Closed Principle:

Software Entities Should Be Open

For Extension, Yet Closed For

Modification

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The Open-Closed Principle

Attempt to design modules that never need to be changed

To extend the behavior of the system, we add new code. We do not modify old code.

Modules that conform to the OCP meet two criteria:

Open For Extension: The behavior of the module can be extended to meet new requirements

Closed For Modification: the source code of the module is not allowed to change

How can we do this?

Abstraction, Polymorphism, Inheritance, Interfaces

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The Open-Closed Principle

It is not possible to have all the modules of a software system satisfy the OCP, but we should attempt to minimize the number of modules that do not satisfy it

The Open-Closed Principle is really the heart of OO design

The central guidance to cope with inevitable change, to create designs that are stable and well behaved in spite of change

Conformance to this principle yields the greatest level of reusability and maintainability

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Open-Closed Principle Example

Consider the following method of some class:

public double totalPrice(Part[] parts) {

double total = 0.0;

for (int i=0; i

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Open-Closed Principle Example (con't)

public double totalPrice(Part[] parts) {

double total = 0.0;

for (int i=0; i

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Does this conform to the OCP? No way!

Every time the Accounting Department comes out

with a new pricing policy, we have to modify the

totalPrice() method! It is not Closed For

Modification. Obviously, policy changes such as

that mean that we have to modify code

somewhere, so what could we do?

To use our first version of totalPrice(), we

could incorporate pricing policy in the

getPrice() method of a Part

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Here are example Part and ConcretePart classes:

// Class Part is the superclass for all parts.

public class Part {

private double price;

public Part(double price) (this.price = price;}

public void setPrice(double price) {this.price = price;}

public double getPrice() {return price;}

}

// Class ConcretePart implements a part for sale.

// Pricing policy explicit here!

public class ConcretePart extends Part {

public double getPrice() {

// return (1.45 * price); //Premium

return (0.90 * price); //Labor Day Sale

}

}

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But now we must modify each subclass of Part whenever the pricing policy changes!

A better idea is to have a PricePolicy class which can be used to provide different pricing policies:

// The Part class now has a contained PricePolicy object.

public class Part {

private double price;

private PricePolicy pricePolicy;

public void setPricePolicy(PricePolicy pricePolicy) {

this.pricePolicy = pricePolicy;

}

public void setPrice(double price) {this.price = price;}

public double getPrice() {

return pricePolicy.getPrice(price);

}

}

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Open-Closed Principle Example (con't) /**

* Class PricePolicy implements a given price policy.

*/

public class PricePolicy {

private double factor;

public PricePolicy (double factor) {

this.factor = factor;

}

public double getPrice(double price) {

return price * factor;

}

}

With this solution we can dynamically set pricing

policies at run time by changing the PricePolicy

object that an existing Part object refers to

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Principle 3

The Liskov Substitution Principle:

Functions That Use References To Base

(Super) Classes Must Be Able To Use

Objects Of Derived (Sub) Classes

Without Knowing It

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The Liskov Substitution Principle

The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) seems obvious

given all we know about polymorphism

For example:

public void drawShape(Shape s) {

// Code here.

}

The drawShape method should work with any subclass of

the Shape superclass (or, if Shape is a Java interface, it

should work with any class that implements the Shape

interface)

But we must be careful when we implement subclasses to

insure that we do not unintentionally violate the LSP.

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The Liskov Substitution Principle

If a function does not satisfy the LSP, then it

probably makes explicit reference to some or all of

the subclasses of its superclass.

Such a function also violates the Open-Closed

Principle, since it may have to be modified

whenever a new subclass is created.

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LSP Example

Consider the following Rectangle class:

// A very nice Rectangle class.

public class Rectangle {

private double width;

private double height;

public Rectangle(double w, double h) {

width = w;

height = h;

}

public double getWidth() {return width;}

public double getHeight() {return height;}

public void setWidth(double w) {width = w;}

public void setHeight(double h) {height = h;}

public double area() {return (width * height);

}

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LSP Example (con't)

Now, had about a Square class? Clearly, a square is a

rectangle, so the Square class should be derived from the

Rectangle class, right? Let's see!

Observations:

A square does not need both a width and a height as attributes, but it

will inherit them from Rectangle anyway. So, each Square object

wastes a little memory, but this is not a major concern.

The inherited and setHeight() methods are not really appropriate

for a Square, since the width and height of a square are identical. So

we'll need to override setWidth() and setHeight(). Having to override these simple methods is a clue that this might not be an

appropriate use of inheritance!

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LSP Example (con't)

Here's the Square class:

// A Square class.

public class Square extends Rectangle {

public Square(double s) {super(s, s);}

public void setWidth(double w) {

super.setWidth(w);

super.setHeight(w);

}

public void setHeight(double h) {

super.setHeight(h);

super.setWidth(h);

}

}

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LSP Example (con't)

Everything looks good. But check this out!

public class TestRectangle {

// Define a method that takes a Rectangle reference

public static void testLSP(Rectangle r) {

r.setWidth(4.0);

r.setHeight(5.0);

System.out.println("Width is 4.0 and "

+ "Height is 5.0 so Area is " + r.area());

if (r.area() == 20.0)

System.out.println("Looking good!\n");

else

System.out.println("Huh?? What kind of "

+ " rectangle is this??\n");

}

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LSP Example (con't)

public static void main(String args[]) {

//Create a Rectangle and a Square

Rectangle r = new Rectangle(1.0, 1.0);

Square s = new Square(1.0);

// Now call the method above. According to the

// LSP, it should work for either Rectangles or

// Squares. Does it??

testLSP(r);

testLSP(s);

}

}

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LSP Example (con't)

Test program output:

Width is 4.0 and Height is 5.0, so Area

is 20.0

Looking good!

Width is 4.0 and Height is 5.0, so Area

is 25.0

Huh?? What kind of rectangle is this??

Looks like we violated the LSP!

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LSP Example (con't)

What's the problem here? The programmer of the testLSP() method made the reasonable assumption that changing the width of a Rectangle leaves its height unchanged.

Passing a Square object to such a method results in problems, exposing a violation of the LSP

The Square and Rectangle classes look self consistent and valid. Yet a programmer, making reasonable assumptions about the base class, can write a method that causes the design model to break down

Solutions can not be viewed in isolation, they must also be viewed in terms of reasonable assumptions that might be made by users of the design

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LSP Example (con't)

A mathematical square might be a rectangle, but a

Square object is not a Rectangle object,

because the behavior of a Square object is not

consistent with the behavior of a Rectangle

object!

Behaviorally, a Square is not a Rectangle! A

Square object is not polymorphic with a

Rectangle object.

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Liskov Substitution Principle

The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) makes it clear that the ISA relationship is all about behavior

In order for the LSP to hold (and with it the Open-Closed Principle) all subclasses must conform to the behavior that clients expect of the base classes they use

A subtype must have no more constraints than its base type, since the subtype must be usable anywhere the base type is usable

If the subtype has more constraints than the base type, there would be uses that would be valid for the base type, but that would violate one of the extra constraints of the subtype and thus violate the LSP!

The guarantee of the LSP is that a subclass can always be used wherever its base class is used!

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Principle 4

The Dependency Inversion Principle:

High-level modules should not depend on low level modules. Both should depend on

abstractions.

Abstractions should not depend on details. Details should depend on abstractions

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Dependency Inversion Principle

In other words: modules with detailed implementations are not depended upon, but depend themselves upon abstractions

LSP provides guidance for the use of public inheritance, violating LSP forces the client to violate OCP.

The structure that results from rigorous use of LSP and OCP is a principle in its own right, the DIP.

OCP states the goal; LSP enables it; DIP shows the mechanism to achieve the goal

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Why call it "inversion" ?

Traditional software development tends to creatre structures where high-level modules depend on low-level modules, the policy (or business logic) gets to depend on details

procedure call hierarchies is an ultimate example

changes to low-level implementation modules propagate to high-level modules, which is unacceptable

reuse of high-level modules becomes very difficult

The dependency structure of a well designed OO software is inverted no propagation of change, easier reuse

High-level modules contain the important business model of the application, the policy

This high-level should be independent of details, they simply should not depend on details in any way.

The high-level policy setting modules should be the focus of reuse

greatest benefits are achievable here

This thinking is in the heart of framework design

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Application of DIP: layering

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Who owns the interface?

The common way is to have a module implementing a set of services and declaring a public interface for any client needing these services

services are seen as an OO library, and utility libraries own their interfaces

DIP often brings about an inversion of interface ownership in addition to inversion of dependencies

clients own the abstract interfaces, implementations implement what clients need

it is this inversion of ownership that protects the high-level layer from changes from lower layers

reusability of higher level layers is improved

frameworks operate in this manner

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Finding the underlying abstraction

You should abstract out the high-level policy (hp ng), but how to find it?

You need experience, some guidelines

the main task of the system

the things that do not vary when details change

the metaphor of the system

a system inside the system

Example: button object and a lamp object

a Button senses its state in the environment and if it is "pressed", it turns the lamp object on or off, depending on whether the user has activated or deactivated the button

a naive design that violates the DIP the high level logic of Button depends on details of lamp

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The underlying abstraction here is to detect an on/off gesture from the user and to rely that gesture to target object

users gesture can be anything, a physical button, a motion detector...

target object can be anything, a lamp in a room, an alarm device...

these details do not affect the abstraction

In a DIP conforming design

Button depends on something that provides abstract methods to turn anything on or off

Lamp is not any more depended upon, but depends on the abstract interface too

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Notice that Lamp does not depend

on Button, even though it depends

on

ButtonServer.

Change the name of the interface to

SwitchableDevice to see that there

is no dependency on Button.

who owns the interface

SwitchableDevice? No-one, put it in an

own package (Java) or namespace

(C++) and it decouples the classes that

sense the environment from classes that

affect the external environment.

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Conclusion

Traditional procedural programming creates a dependency structure in which policy depends on volatile detail

OO programming inverts this dependency structure

details and policies depend on abstraction

service interfaces are often owned by their clients

hallmark of good OO design however, it is possible to do procedural design with an OO language

DIP is crucial for the creation of reusable software frameworks

The three founding principles are closely related

Violating either LSP or DIP invariably results in violating OCP

LSP violations are latent violations of OCP

It is important to keep in mind these principles to get most out of OO development...

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Interface Segregation Principle

Many client-specific interfaces are better than one general purpose interface

No fat interfaces. No non-cohesive interfaces.

Consequence:

impact of changes to one interface arent as big if interface is smaller

probability of a change reduces

clients do not depend on other clients needs

No interface pollution

Related to SRP

Clients should not be forced to depend

upon methods that they do not use.

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Interface Segregation Principle

Separating the responsibilities

No separating

the responsibilities

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