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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By : Ivan Nikolov
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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

By: Ivan Nikolov

Overview of this book

Design patterns make developers’ 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’ll learn about the various features of Scala and will 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 and latest features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will be learning about IDE’s and Aspect Oriented Programming. We will be looking into different components in Scala. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. The book ends with a practical example that demonstrates how the presented material can be combined in real-life applications. You’ll learn the necessary concepts to build enterprise-grade applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

The memento design pattern

Depending on the software we are writing, we might have a requirement to be able to restore the state of an object back to its previous state.

The purpose of the memento design pattern is to provide the ability to execute an undo action in order to restore an object to a previous state.

The original memento design pattern is implemented with the help of three main objects:

  • Originator: The object whose state we want to be able to restore
  • Caretaker: The object that triggers the changes to the originator object and uses the memento objects for rollback, if needed
  • Memento: The object that carries the actual state of the originator and can be used to restore to one of the previous states

It is important to know that the memento object can be handled only by the originator. The caretaker and all other classes can just store it and nothing else.

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