Let's break Demeter's Law.

Problems

• Unnecessary Indirection

• Empty Classes

• Readability

Solutions

1. Remove Middle man.

Sample Code

Wrong

Right

Detection

Same as its opposite smell, We can detect this small using parsing trees.

Tags

• Coupling

• Declarative

• Readability

Conclusion

This is exactly the opposite to Message Chain. We make explicit the message chain.

Relations

More info

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%[https://wiki.c2.com/?MiddleMan]

%[https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/remove-middleman.html#remove_middleman_example]

%[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Demeter]

Credits

Photo by Dan Counsell on Unsplash

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Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.

Martin Fowler

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This article is part of the CodeSmell Series.

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