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How do you feel about very long classes containing 2 to 4 thousand lines of code?
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Answer from AI
Negative.
Long classes violate the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and the Principle of Least Knowledge. This leads to the following problems:
- Hard to read and understand: Large amounts of code make it difficult to grasp the class logic.
- Hard to maintain and modify: Changing one part of the class can unintentionally affect others, causing errors.
- Risk of code duplication: Functionality may be repeated in different parts of the class.
- Testing issues: Unit testing a large class becomes complex and time-consuming.
- Reduced reusability: Individual parts of functionality are hard to extract and reuse elsewhere.
Ideally, classes should be short and perform a single specific task. Functionality should be decomposed into smaller, specialized classes or functions. Refactoring such "god" classes is a priority for improving code quality.
For decomposition, the following approaches can be used:
- Extract related logic into separate classes: For example, data handling, UI logic, business logic.
- Apply design patterns: MVC, MVP, MVVM, Repository, Factory, etc.
- Break down into smaller functions/methods: each method should do one thing.
- Use extensions in Kotlin: to add functionality without modifying the original class.