Achieve SOLID Design in Go
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The following information is a compilation of Wikipedia and the 2016 speech by Dave Cheney (link at the bottom). If I am missing anything or have the wrong idea please message me.
Single responsibility principle
A class should only have a single responsibility, that is, only changes to one part of the software's specification should be able to affect the specification of the class.
- Don't use "Catch all" packages.
- Use "small, sharp tools" combined to tackle a larger task (UNIX philosophy)
Open–closed principle
"Software entities ... should be open for extension, but closed for modification." - Bertrand Meyer
Liskov substitution principle "Objects in a program should be replaceable with instances of their subtypes without altering the correctness of that program." (See also design by contract.)
- Use Interfaces not concrete types
- Simple Implementation
- Common behavior
"Require no more, promise no less" - Jim Weirich
Interface segregation principle
More specific interfaces are better than a few general-purpose interfaces. "Clients should not be forced to depend on methods they do not use." - Robert C. Martin Functions and methods should only depend on the behavior they need.
- Isolate functions
- Small, single operation functions are best
- Accept interfaces, return structs
Dependency inversion principle
One should "depend upon abstractions, not concretions."
- Keep the package tree small and wide
- Avoid packages that depend upon other packages
- Third party packages may depend on other third party packages, etc.
- Less imports the better
Speech by Dave Cheney