I'm a self-taught programmer and a lot of the problems I encounter come from a lack of formal education (and often also experience).
My question it the following: How to rationalize where you store the data a class or function creates? I'll make a simple example:
Case: I have a webshop (SHOP) with a REST api and a product provider (PROVIDER) also with a REST API. I determine the product, I send that data to PROVIDER who sends me back formatted data that can be read by SHOP to make a working product on the webshop. PROVIDER also has a secondary REST api that provides generated images.
What I would come up with: I'd make three classes: ProductBase
, Shop
and Provider
ProductBase
would be the class from where I instantiate and store the individual product information.
Shop
would be where I design the api interactions with the webshop.
Provider
same as shop, but for interactions with provider api.
My problem: At some point you're creating data that's not clearly separated in concern. For example: Would I store the generated product data (from PROVIDER) in the ProductBase
instance I created? It feels like I'm coupling the two classes this way. But it not there, then where?
What if I create product images with PROVIDER and I upload them to SHOP? Do I store the uploaded image-url in PRODUCT? How do you keep track of all this info?
The question I want answered:
I've read a lot on OOP and Design Patterns, and I have adopted a TDD approach which has greatly helped to improve my code but I haven't found anything on how to approach the flow of at runtime generated data within software engineering.
What would be a good way to solve above problem(s) and could you explain your rationale for it?
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