Code Smell 67 — Middle Man
Let’s break Demeter’s Law.
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2 min readApr 12, 2021
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
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
This article is part of the CodeSmell Series.
