Code Smell 64 - Inappropriate Intimacy

Code Smell 64 - Inappropriate Intimacy

Two classes entangled in love.

Problems

  • Coupling

  • Bad Responsibilities Assignments

  • Bad Cohesion

  • Class Interfaces too Public

  • Maintainability

  • Extensibility

Solutions

  1. Refactor

  2. Merge

  3. Replace Hierarchy With Delegation.

Sample Code

Wrong

Right

Detection

Some linters graph class relations and protocol dependency. Analyzing the collaboration graph we can infer rules and hints.

Tags

  • Coupling

Conclusion

If two classes are too related and don't talk much to others we might need to split, merge or refactor them, Classes should know as little about each other as possible.

Relations

More info

Credits

Photo by Becca Tapert on Unsplash


No matter how slow you are writing clean code, you will always be slower if you make a mess.

Robert Martin



This article is part of the CodeSmell Series.