Restrict Exports

Kind: technique

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:restrict-exports

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for narrowing a module's public surface to the operations its consumers need.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Encapsulate State and before Introduce Parameter Object.

Category

• Core Modular Design

Refactors

• Boundary Leakage
• Inappropriate Intimacy
• Zombie Code
• Explicit Boundaries
• Encapsulation
• Information Hiding
• Attack Surface Reduction
• Risk Management
• Transaction Boundary

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Domain Architecture
• Core Modular Design
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Transactions / State / Concurrency