Struggling with the Single Responsibility Principle
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Consider this example:
I have a website. It allows users to make posts (can be anything) and add tags that describe the post. In the code, I have two classes that represent the post and tags. Lets call these classes Post
and Tag
.
Post
takes care of creating posts, deleting posts, updating posts, etc.
Tag
takes care of creating tags, deleting tags, updating tags, etc.
There is one operation that is missing. The linking of tags to posts. I am struggling with who should do this operation. It could fit equally well in either class.
On one hand, the Post
class could have a function that takes a Tag
as a parameter, and then stores it in a list of tags. On the other hand, the Tag
class could have a function that takes a Post
as a parameter and links the Tag
to the Post
.
The above is just an example of my problem. I am actually running into this with multiple classes that are all similar. It could fit equally well in both. Short of actually putting the functionality in both classes, what conventions or design styles exist to help me solve this problem. I am assuming there has to be something short of just picking one?
Maybe putting it in both classes is the correct answer?
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