Should methods that are required to be executed in a specific order be private?
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I have a Class that retrieves some data and images does some stuff to them and them uploads them to a third party app using web services. The object needs to perform some specific steps in order. My question is should I be explicitly exposing each method publicly like so.
myObject obj = new myObject();
obj.RetrieveImages();
obj.RetrieveAssociatedData();
obj.LogIntoThirdPartyWebService();
obj.UploadStuffToWebService();
or should all of these methods be private and encapsulated in a single public method like so.
public class myObject()
{
private void RetrieveImages(){};
private void RetrieveAssociatedData(){};
private void LogIntoThirdPartyWebService(){};
private void UploadStuffToWebService(){};
public void DoStuff()
{
this.RetrieveImages();
this.RetrieveAssociatedData();
this.LogIntoThirdPartyWebService();
this.UploadStuffToWebService();
}
}
which is called like so.
myObject obj = new myObject();
obj.DoStuff();
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