Published Interface

Resources

• https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/published.pdf

Published Interface

Refers to a class interface that's used outside the code base that it's defined in.

Challenges

Things rapidly change if I put that software out on the Web as a component, and other people, whom I don’t know, start building applications on top of it. If I now delete the parameter, everybody else’s code will break when I upgrade.

The key difference is being able to find and change the code that uses an interface. For a published interface, this isn’t possible, so you need a more elaborate interface update process. Interface users are either callers or are classes that subclass or implement an interface.

Suggestions

• Don’t treat interfaces as published unless they are
• Don’t publish interfaces inside a team, result of strong form of code ownership.
• Publish as little as you can as late as you can
• Try to make your changes additions

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