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function upper(data) {
function upper(data) {
if (data.firstLetterOnly) {
if (data.firstLetterOnly) {
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return text.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + text.substring(1);
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return data.text.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + data.text.substring(1);
}
}
return data.text.toUpperCase();
return data.text.toUpperCase();
}
}
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upper({
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"text" : "hello world!"
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}) == "HELLO WORLD!"
upper({
upper({
"text" : "hello world!",
"text" : "hello world!",
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}) == "Hello world!"
}) == "Hello world!"
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</source>
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Adding named parameters is more easily evolvable. Moreover it is certainly easier to use ten named arguments than a function with ten parameters.
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Adding named parameters is more easily evolvable. Moreover it is certainly easier to use ten named arguments than a function with ten parameters. No surprise the [[ConfigurationObject]] becomes more and more popular in many [[JavaScript]] libraries. As the core of [[DukeScript]] ecosystem is built around wrapping [[JavaScript]] libraries with type-safe [[Java]] [[API]]s it becomes more and more important to find proper realization of such [[API]] in [[Java]]. Here are few options.
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== [[JavaBean]]s like Style ==
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Revision as of 10:34, 22 February 2015

ConfigurationObject pattern is often used by JavaScript libraries to deal with evolution in a manageable way. While TheAPIBook advocates being ready for first version never be perfect, people repeat the same design mistakes again and again. Usual evolution history starts with introducing method with one argument:

function upper(text) {
  return text.toUpperCase();
}
upper("Hello World!") == "HELLO WORLD!"

then one finds out additional argument is needed:

function upper(text, firstLetterOnly) {
  if (firstLetterOnly) {
    return text.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + text.substring(1);
  }
  return text.toUpperCase();
}
upper("hello world!") == "HELLO WORLD!"
upper("hello world!", true) == "Hello world!"

and later another one, and another and so on, until one realizes the whole API is total mess and it is time to switch to ConfigurationObject:

function upper(data) {
  if (data.firstLetterOnly) {
    return data.text.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + data.text.substring(1);
  }
  return data.text.toUpperCase();
}
upper({ 
  "text" : "hello world!"
}) == "HELLO WORLD!"
upper({ 
  "text" : "hello world!",
  "firstLetterOnly" : false
}) == "HELLO WORLD!"
upper({ 
  "text" : "Hello World!",
  "firstLetterOnly" : true
}) == "Hello world!"

Adding named parameters is more easily evolvable. Moreover it is certainly easier to use ten named arguments than a function with ten parameters. No surprise the ConfigurationObject becomes more and more popular in many JavaScript libraries. As the core of DukeScript ecosystem is built around wrapping JavaScript libraries with type-safe Java APIs it becomes more and more important to find proper realization of such API in Java. Here are few options.

JavaBeans like Style

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