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Swift 2 Design Patterns

Swift 2 Design Patterns

By : Lange
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Swift 2 Design Patterns

Swift 2 Design Patterns

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Overview of this book

Swift is a multi-paradigm language. It has expressive features familiar to those used to work with modern functional languages, while also keeping the object-oriented features of Objective-C. It remains compatible with Apple’s legacy codes and frameworks. A design pattern systematically names, motivates, and explains a general design that addresses a recurring design problem in object-oriented systems. It describes the problem, the solution, when to apply the solution, and its consequences. It also gives implementation hints and examples. Knowledge about design patterns is also one of the best ways to make you different compared to other low-level developers. This book shows you how to use Swift 2 to learn about 23 Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns, and is organized into three categories. The book will present you the five creational patterns, followed by the seven structural patterns, and finishing with the 11 behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. Each chapter will introduce the pattern by defining its role, which common problems the pattern should be used for, its generic UML representation, how each objects presented in the class diagram participate in the pattern, and what the role of each of these objects is. The book then presents you with a concrete case as an illustration that will be used to implement the pattern using Swift.
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Chapter 1. Creational Patterns

The creational patterns are designed to deal with the object creation mechanism in software designing. A system using these patterns becomes independent of how objects are created, which means it is independent of how concrete classes are instantiated.

These patterns encapsulate the use of concrete classes and favor the use of interfaces in the relationship between objects, allowing to have better abstraction of the global system conception.

Thus, if we analyze the singleton pattern, a pattern designed to instantiate only one instance of a class, we find that the mechanism that controls the unique access to this instance is fully encapsulated in the class, which means that this is completely transparent to the client consuming the instance of the class.

In this chapter, we will introduce you to the five creational patterns and discuss how we can use them with Swift:

  • The prototype pattern
  • The factory method pattern
  • The singleton pattern
  • The abstract factory pattern
  • The builder pattern

The objectives of these patterns are described in the following table:

Pattern

Objective

The prototype pattern

This pattern allows you to create new objects by duplicating existing objects called prototypes. This pattern has the cloning capability.

The factory method pattern

This pattern introduces you to an abstract method that allows you to create an object by telling its subclasses about the effective creation of the object.

The singleton pattern

This pattern ensures that a class has only one instance. This class provides a unique point of access that returns this instance.

The abstract factory pattern

This pattern allows you to create an object that is grouped in families by hiding the concrete classes that are needed to create these objects.

The builder pattern

This pattern allows you to separate the creation of complex objects from their implementation. This permits a client to create complex objects having different representations.

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