stateprotected
Stateprotected is a term used in software engineering to describe components whose internal state is guarded against unauthorized or unintended modification. It signals that state transitions are allowed only through a defined set of operations, and that invariants are preserved across changes. The concept commonly arises in the design of object-oriented systems, concurrent programs, and domain models that rely on finite state machines or well-defined APIs.
Definition and scope: Stateprotected is not a formal standard but a design discipline documented in codebases
Mechanisms: Protection can be achieved through synchronization primitives (for example, locks or atomic operations), through encapsulation
Examples: A multithreaded counter object where the value can be read freely but can only be incremented
Benefits and trade-offs: Stateprotection improves correctness and maintainability by preventing race conditions and invariant violations. It
Relation to related concepts: state machines, encapsulation, immutability, and concurrency control. See also: state machine, concurrency