C# code survey
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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I fail to see what the big deal is about, but if I get to choose I prefer 1. I don't like huge constructors, they are slightly more error prone.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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When a method has more than, say, four arguments, I strongly dislike it, its author, and the Italian governement. :)
CPallini wrote:
dislike ... the Italian governement.
I thought that was mandatory in Italy, regardless.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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CPallini wrote:
dislike ... the Italian governement.
I thought that was mandatory in Italy, regardless.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Option 1. Agree that Too much parameters in Option 2 is terrible one. Too much parameters require changes in other places(Ex: Business Logic layer, Code-behind, etc.,) when you need to remove/add parameters later.
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Really blow his mind. Make the constructor accept a Tuple instead.
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Super Lloyd wrote:
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values.
Yeah, initialization does not inherently mean useful values, so why force lazy coders to initialize meaningless values?
var dto = new FooDto(actualT1Val,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null);
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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Super Lloyd wrote:
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values.
Yeah, initialization does not inherently mean useful values, so why force lazy coders to initialize meaningless values?
var dto = new FooDto(actualT1Val,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null);
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
:laugh:
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Super Lloyd wrote:
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values.
Yeah, initialization does not inherently mean useful values, so why force lazy coders to initialize meaningless values?
var dto = new FooDto(actualT1Val,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null);
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
I think I might add a couple of unit test just like that, for giggle... :laugh:
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Really blow his mind. Make the constructor accept a Tuple instead.
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that's a good one! :D in fact it might the easiest way how to go about it.. by that I mean I can implement that with some quick copy paste... whereas implementing the constructor is going to be manually intensive and bug prone! :~
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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I don't mind either option, but I think I like v1 better. When it comes to long lists of assignments I generally copy/paste back and forth with an instance of Excel.
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Neither. One does not "force" all or none. The constructor-parameters are added for all variables that the object needs before it can initialize. Any other option that can be set later should be a public property. If you have more than three parameters, consider creating a class for them and to pass the thing to the constructor.
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Neither. One does not "force" all or none. The constructor-parameters are added for all variables that the object needs before it can initialize. Any other option that can be set later should be a public property. If you have more than three parameters, consider creating a class for them and to pass the thing to the constructor.
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it's a DTO, i.e. all those could be field really (except it would sparkle another argument). No code is either run into that class, just a bag of well known property....
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Super Lloyd wrote:
select your favourite of 2 options.
I prefer favorite.
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it's a DTO, i.e. all those could be field really (except it would sparkle another argument). No code is either run into that class, just a bag of well known property....
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The same still applies; anything that is required should be there in the constructor. If it is not required for the objects existence, then it becomes a property. For a DTO, I'd expect an Id-field, and without an Id such object should not exist.
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Neither. It shouldn't be the responsiblity of MyFooClass to return a FooDto, it should be FooDto's class to take a MyFooClass and convert it to a FooDto. So you have instead:
public class FooDto
{
public static FooDto From(MyFooClass c)
{
// ...mapping...
}
}And to make this more re-usable for different data objects and to avoid repeating
Fromfor every type of "from - to" conversion, use interfaces:public class FooDto : IFooDto
{
public static IFooDto From(IFooClass c)
{
// ...mapping...
}
}This promotes consistency between properties in
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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Of the two choices given, I'd take 1; but would prefer a third option.:
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(MyFooClass foo)
{
Property1 = foo.property1;
// .....
Property24 = foo.property24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;
}If for some reason I
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Yes it's a programming question, but wait a moment, I am NOT asking to solve any problem here, I am asking to select your favourite of 2 options. I think what they want me to do here at work is disgusting. I have to suck it up anyway, since it's the guy who accepts pull request that tells me to do it, period. But I am curious whether or not I am in good company with my prejudice. It's about DTO, constructors with zillion of parameters and all private properties. code I prefer and put in my pull request, with 24 properties (i.e large number of properties)
public class FooDto
{
public T1 Property1 { get; set; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; set; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto() { Property1 = property1, //.... Property24 = property24, }; }}
how I have asked to rewrite the code, feels disgusting to me, but curious how many people share, or dislike, my opinion
public class FooDto
{
public FooDto(T1 value1 /** 24 values later */, T24 value24)
{
Property1 = value1;
// .....
Property24 = value24;
}public T1 Property1 { get; }
// ....
public T24 Property24 { get; }
}
// ....
class MyFooClass
{
private T1 property1;
// ....
private T24 property24;public FooDto ToDto() { return new FooDto(property1 /\*\* \*/, property24); }}
In his defence he has an argument. If someone use that DTO as well, the compiler will force them to initialise all values. Though one could counter argument that we got unit test for just that. At any rate, which of those 2 is your favourite code style?
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If you really want to bake their noodle, put all the value maps in Attributes and then have the object built via Reflection such as in this article[^]. It's a super complicated way to do simple tasks :laugh:
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Option 1, but I do see the argument for option 2, especially if the properties are mandatory.
Of course, using reasonable defaults would prevent you from having runaway parameter lists for your constructors, and all you have to do is set the properties that need to be changed.
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