Refactoring Day 5 : Pull Up Field
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Today we look at a refactoring that is similar to the Pull Up method. Instead of a method, it is obviously done with a field instead!
1: public abstract class Account
2: {
3: }
4:
5: public class CheckingAccount : Account
6: {
7: private decimal _minimumCheckingBalance = 5m;
8: }
9:
10: public class SavingsAccount : Account
11: {
12: private decimal _minimumSavingsBalance = 5m;
13: }</p>
In this example, we have a constant value that is duplicated between two derived classes. To promote reuse we can pull up the field into the base class and rename it for brevity.
1: public abstract class Account
2: {
3: protected decimal _minimumBalance = 5m;
4: }
5:
6: public class CheckingAccount : Account
7: {
8: }
9:
10: public class SavingsAccount : Account
11: {
12: }</p>
This is part of the 31 Days of Refactoring series. For a full list of Refactorings please see the original introductory post.