Invert Dependency

Kind: technique

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:invert-dependency

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for making a high-level module own an abstraction that a low-level module implements.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Split Hierarchy and before CRUD-Only State Persistence.

Category

• SOLID / Object-Oriented Design

Refactors

• Concrete Coupling
• Circular Dependency
• Dependency Graph
• Directed Acyclic Graph
• Abstraction
• Modularity
• Replaceability

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Core Modular Design