God Object

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Aliases: Blob Class, God Class

Record: architecture:god-object

Severity: discouraged

Scope: modularity, semantic_consistency, domain_boundary, control_coordination

Formed by: Centralize unrelated responsibilities into one object, route unrelated behavior through it, accumulate state and dependencies, and make the object the default modification point.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which one object accumulates unrelated responsibilities and becomes the default place for every change.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Big Ball of Mud and before Concrete Coupling.

Refactored by

• Extract Class
• Move Behavior to Its Owner
• Domain Service
• Facade Pattern

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Control coordination
• Domain boundary
• Modularity
• Semantic consistency

Detected by

• rules/eslint/file-length.eslint.rule.ts

Negated by

• Single Responsibility Principle
• High Cohesion

Violates

• Single Responsibility Principle

Linked from

• Worth before work
• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design
• Core Modular Design
• Severity levels
• The forces