Definition of the Strategy pattern
In computer programming, the strategy pattern **(also known as the **policy pattern) is a behavioral software design pattern that enables selecting an algorithm at runtime. Instead of implementing a single algorithm directly, code receives run-time instructions as to which in a family of algorithms to use.
Where to use the Factory pattern
When you want the algorithm to vary independently from clients that use it.
UML example
Implementation of the strategy pattern
First, we need to declare an Interface or an Abstract class, here I used both but a single abstract class could have done the job.
what i want to achieve is that depending of the context my code will behave differently so let’s implement some strategy.
For the purpose of this tutorial, i created 2 strategies : PlusOperationStrategy and MinusOperationStrategy, both extending my abstract class.
With them being of the same supertype by inheritance, I can substitute them in the function of the needed behavior.
So now, if I want to use my strategies, and more precisely the compute method implemented in it, I need a context.
So based on the strategy passed as a parameter the context will use the compute method it.
So now, let’s see how it work
The above snippet will return this result
5
-1
Thanks for your reading time, the code used in this tutorial is findable in this Github repository.
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