A special type of subroutine called at the creation of an object.
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Declaration of bloatedness: the class that knew too much?
I've already expressed concerns about this type's constructor, and I've sort-of* implemented the changes suggested in the answers I got there.
Recently I added even more parameters to that ...
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Base class that records its GUID and creation time
Due to the lack of support for initialized default object values for class properties, I am experimenting with a self factory.
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In a Content Pane mouse movements are logged and shown
I was trying to learn to develop plug-ins in Eclipse and after following the tutorial provided with Eclipse, tried to expand the code by writing a short Java class to track and display mouse movements ...
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YUIDoc syntax for optionally static constructor
In JavaScript, I wrote a class that can be optionally instantiated with the new keyword, but can also be called statically as well. What is the best way to ...
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Is the Copy-Swap Idiom implemented here correctly? [closed]
Is the Copy-Swap Idiom implemented here correctly?
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Rule of 5 - C++11 [closed]
Source/Context:
What is the copy-and-swap idiom?
Rule-of-Three becomes Rule-of-Five with C++11?
The C++ Programming Language 4th Edition June 2013 -
Section 17.1 Introduction 483
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Book constructor pattern
I am learning how to do object-orientated programming in JS. In particular, I am learning about the constructor pattern.
In an attempt to exercise what I have been learning, I made this:
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Kelvin-Fahrenheit-Celsius temperature converter
I am curious if it would ever be in good practice to omit constructor definitions from a class. Here, the intention of the Temperature class is to simply convert between one temperature scale to ...
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Store open days and times
Currently I'm developing my business entities. I feel that the structure is a tad cumbersome.
What I mean is that a store on a particular day can have different open and closing times. So it's not ...
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Utility class for an HttpURLConnection
I am creating a utility class to do an HttpURLConnection. I want to make this class generic as in I pass the URL and the POST params. It works with any range of ...
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A binary tree , its copy constructor and assignment operator
I implemented a binary tree in the following code. Its node's copy constructor and assignment operator should copy itself and all its descendents. Similarity a node's destructor should delete itself ...
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Making a copy constructor more flexible for ADT queue
I have constructed a copy constructor for an ADT queue. The copy constructor works fine. I would want to improve my code, but I don't really know how to shorten it to make it more flexible.
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Rule Of Three for a Coordinate class [closed]
I just recently got back into C++ and did a quick and simple exercise in the Rule of Three. The code for the copy constructor, overloaded assignment operator, and destructor follows below for my class ...
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Elegant way of processing an “options” parameter
In this constructor function I'm assigning everything to the proper variables. For the third parameter it accepts an options argument that contains the optional ...
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Instantiating a kind of NumPy array
I am creating a class object which must inherit from numpy ndarrays. I perform an isinstance check and an ...
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Applying the copy-swap idiom to humans and employees
I came across this post which explains the copy and swap idiom. However I could not find this idiom applied to classes that have base classes. Following is my attempt of a copy-swap idiom applied to ...
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Class that represents starting points and endpoints of a game
I am creating my first HTML5 game using JavaScript and Phaser framework. I have a class (or more accurately a prototype) called MajorPoint that represents the ...
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ADT for a TVM calculator
I wanted to get some criticism for the below ADT. This is just a basic ADT that will be fed into a TVM calculator. Main purpose is to have it initialized and correct for input errors.
Full ...
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Initializing object by settings implemented as a class [closed]
Here is the story.
We have the BankTerminalSettings class.
It has many properties:
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handle drag and drop operations
I've come up with the following code to handle drag and drop operation. It's composed of a constructor function that returns an objects with methods to attach to event handlers.
Notes about this ...
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Prompting the user for employment information
I have created a simple program in which the user is prompted for various details about their employment. In my Employee.java file, I have all the methods.
Employee.java:
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File class and large constructor
I have some dispute with a colleague. I work with some REST-service, from which I get always same type data.
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Triggering editing mode for a form
I think that my code isn't perfect and I need a help to understand how to optimize it.
In my application I have a main form and several forms for data editing.
The user can:
Add a new item
Edit ...
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Parameterised Constructors
Finally, Parameterised Constructors are possible in VBA.
Background:
One rainy day, I came up with an idea: take a static class and expose one property as default (like it was done in the Reverse ...
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Avoid if/else in constructor - NavigableMap?
I have the following code, based on the input to the constructor I need to initialise some values which are wrapped in a simple POJO. These values are constant as you can see.
However I don't like ...
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Dependency Injection into an Abstract Class
Me and another developer have recently forked and taken over an abandoned, open-source project. I have also been reading articles and watching videos by Misko Hevery.
When I was reading through the ...
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Count PDF pages in constructor
I have an object that represents a PDF file. In the constructor, I pull out various information about the file name and make it available via properties:
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Should I set a license in the constructor or a static constructor?
We are using the Aspose PDF library to work with PDF files. Aspose requires the license to be set once per process. Accordingly, I have created the following common static method that sets the ...
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Exercising in copy constructors and assignment operators
I've just created an implementation of array to train myself in copy constructors, assignment operators, and exception safety. Please look at this code and tell me what is wrong here.
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Zip-like construction of objects from parameter collections
This little function can make object creation much easier.
Sometimes you need to switch between representing your data as objects vs. having the members in separate containers.
Example:
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When a constructor calls a helper function, should the helper mutate the object or return part of the object?
I have a private method that is called from the constructor to instantiate a bunch of objects.
I can do it two ways.
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What is the advantage/disadvantage of using default initializer for private fields?
Let's compare the following code:
1)
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Long constructors, inheritance, class method constructors
My class takes functions as a parameter. There are 6 of them, along with numerous other parameters. Almost all of the fields have default values.
It also has a class method that creates an instance ...
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Framework constructor
I'm working on my framework constructor. First I tried to look into jQuery and understand it, but it's so out of my league. Instead I googled and put this code together. Though there aren't many posts ...
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Making this login javascript code more organized and more competent?
I have this basic javascript that using a constructor, validates the form where the login fields cant be empty. All this WITHOUT using any js libraries. So far I have come up with this...
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Review of three constructors for a String class
I have the following declaration in my String.h file:
private:
char* nstring;
int nlength;
};
The following are three constructors I've implemented in ...
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Reference type and constructors [closed]
Code in Java but should be readable also for c#...
Let's assume I have a class with some reference types. Example:
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Cleaning up PHP object constructors
I have this annoying problem in PHP with faking overloading constructors. I understand the concept, but the code I produce feels kind of ugly. It isn't a lot of code, just bad code. Any ideas on how ...
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Write a class with some properties and indexed
Is there a better way to write it? I need the best way to write it. It is this principle? Please show me a better way
it breaks SRP?
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__constructor mysqli variable options
I like the fact that I can create a class and have the connection details in one file if I need to update them and then pass them to the method I create in the class that defines my specific use of ...
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JavaFX design writes to static field from constructor
In JavaFX, the lifecycle of an Application is quite different than Swing. Your constructor must take no arguments so that the ...
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Is this a correct way to write a convenience constructor?
I was reading more about the instancetype on Stack Overflow and now my question is:
For every convenience constructor that I write, do I need to have the ...
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Dynamic object creation in Python
I want to abstract away differences between zipfile and rarfile modules. In my code i want to call ZipFile or RarFile ...
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Changing the state of another entity into the constructor method
I have a Clock class who inherites from pyglet.clock.Clock and behaves like a Singleton.
Into the constructor method I have the following line:
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Java constructor should use setter?
I have a simple Java model Class called Person which have a constructor that receives a JSONObject. In that constructor I get the values from the JSONObject and put in my instance variables. This is ...
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Logic for an init function in email parser
I am writing an email parser and cannot decide how much logic should be included in the __init__ function. I know that a constructor should make the object ready ...
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Calling functions (or invoking methods) in constructor
I had written something like the following,
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