Great post, Michael.

Personally, I’m a huge static hater. Mostly because of the difficulties they bring with dependencies. I much prefer class-methods a la Ruby, which are instance methods of a different object (the class).

I like the view that static’s signify a lack of reliance on fields. While I’m not a huge fan of mixing data and behavior in my classes, I can see the point there.

Nice post.

All too often I get caught up with the semantics of the syntax and not how my use of the syntax might be interpreted by later developers. Is my use a statement of fact or a statement of intent?

You’re post has given me some food for thought.

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I run across this problem a lot. However, I am a static lover! The thing about making a method static is it clearly states “the logic of this function is self contained” Not only is this self contained, it removes a dependency on the instance of the object. Now, I agree that the inability to override the method is annoying, and wish there was a clean way to avoid that, but compare that to just what the instance object dependency that is NOT USED can mean.

1) you might need a connection to a database to create the object

2) you might need a invoke the gui system to call the function (anything on a object that extends jpanel)

3) you might need a very complicated system to be created (anything on an object in the eclipse editor)

4) you might need it figure out which constructor to use (any object that doesn’t have a default constructor)

Also as to intention, static function state the cleanest intention of what the parameters are. take the follow example:

findFirstDifference()

int findFirstDifference(String first, String second)

the second is much clearer on what the parameters are and what the outcome is. In ‘clean code’ bob martin says “the ideal function has zero parameters” but I disagree. I believe the ideal function has only the parameters it actually needs.

when you say findFirstDifference() you really mean findFirstDifference(this) and it is rare that you actually need all the member variables in your object.

When I see a lot of static methods, my first question is whether or not there’s another class in there just crying to be free. Maybe there should really be a singleton instance of that embedded class. Moving back to an instance restores the option of subclassing and overriding later to change behavior.

That’s not always the case, though. For example, most large applications end up with a “StringHelper” class that provides service methods for strings that you wish were on String itself.

“We understand the invariant of the class and we see that the method could be public. We could make it private now, but that means that anyone who wants to make it public later would have to do some re-analysis to arrive at the answer that we have right now.”

Sure, but on the other side of the coin, once it is public not only must all future implementations implement it (or I have to rework all the clients), but it must also maintain that invariant.

It isn’t overly conservative; rather, it is just a tradeoff.

Every now and then I’m annoyed when I try to extend a Java program, but some of the classes which I need to access are package-private. Sometimes even most of the classes in a package are package-private. Then I end up creating wrapper classes (in the same package or using reflection) just for accessing some of the public or package-private methods in those classes.

resharper tells you when a method doesn’t refer to instance data, and prompts you to make it static :)

Great post. Now I have a name for the thing I deal with anyway.

In case of “intentionally static” methods I believe it shouldn’t be hard to do it in IntelliJ with @Static annotation and some inspection which checks that annotation is used correctly.

Going a bit off topic, I think it may also be interesting to hightlight instance methods calls to see points where object state is used; sometimes I add temporary static modifier to do it.

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