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Scala Design Patterns

By : Ivan Nikolov
Book Image

Scala Design Patterns

By: Ivan Nikolov

Overview of this book

Scala has become increasingly popular in many different IT sectors. The language is exceptionally feature-rich which helps developers write less code and get faster results. Design patterns make developer’s lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently and is valuable to the company or people concerned. You will learn about the various features of Scala and be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. By the end of this book, you will have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Scala Design Patterns
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The composite design pattern


The composite design pattern is used to describe groups of objects that should be treated the same way as a single one.

Note

Its purpose is to compose objects into tree structures to represent whole-part hierarchies.

The composite design pattern is useful for removing code duplication and avoiding errors in cases where groups of objects are generally treated the same way. A popular example could be a file system in which we have directories, which can have other directories or files. Generally, the interface to interact with directories and files is the same, so they are good candidates for a composite design pattern.

Class diagram

As we mentioned previously, file systems are a good candidate for the composite design pattern. Essentially, they are just tree structures, so for our example, we will show how to build a tree using the composite design pattern.

The following figure shows our class diagram:

As you can see from the preceding diagram, Tree is our composite...