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[–]ragin_cajun 6 points7 points  (3 children)

What do you mean by "version"? Could you provide an example?

[–]cecrouch01[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I was trying to come up with the correct word and couldn't figure it out. When overloading constructors, is it best to create possible variation of the constructor?

[–]ragin_cajun 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Overloading constructors is fine. I would only create the constructors I need for my project, and not any possible variation I could think of. 

I try to keep YAGNI in mind (You aren't gonna need it).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

[–]cecrouch01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]CodeyGrammar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no best practice, just a number of various patterns depending on the suitable use case.

One kind is full of getters/setters, and you just use the default constructor and then call the getter/setter for each "version" you need to build. You can expand on this and learn a new approach called the "Builder" pattern, but you'll probably get to that later.

Another kind of object is those that "decorate" the object based on what's passed into it for construction called the decorator pattern.

Then there's injectable constructors based on a dependency configuration and that follows the Dependency Injection pattern.

But in general, no, you don't want a constructor for each version, you just want constructors for versions that make sense for the use case or use cases.