Software Design - The Composite Pattern

Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur · Oct 31, 2018 · 17m

The Composite Pattern is one that is not taken advantage of as often as it might outside of frameworks. This is an approach to design that allows you to treat a family of objects the same. It is a quintessential reason for and use of an interface. The flexibility is critical to being able to handle groups of different objects the same way any individual one would be treated.

The Composite Pattern Defined

As always, we will start with the "Gang of Four" intent to set the stage for our discussion.

"Compose objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Composite lets clients…