Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

The memento pattern

Encapsulation is one of the fundamental principles of object-oriented design. We also know that each class should have a single responsibility. As we add functionality to our object, we might realize that we need to save its internal state to be able to restore it at a later stage. If we implement such functionality directly in the class, the class might become too complex and we might end up breaking the single responsibility principle. At the same time, encapsulation prevents us having direct access to the internal state of the object we need to memorize.