Design Patterns in Modern C++: Reusable Approaches for Object-Oriented Software Design

© Dmitri Nesteruk 2018

Dmitri NesterukDesign Patterns in Modern C++https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3603-1_2

2. Builder

Dmitri Nesteruk¹ 

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St. Petersburg, Russia

 

The Builder pattern is concerned with the creation of complicated objects , that is, objects that cannot be built up in a single-line constructor call. These types of objects may themselves be composed of other objects and might involve less-than-obvious logic, necessitating a separate component specifically dedicated to object construction.

I suppose it’s worth noting beforehand that, while I said the Builder is concerned with complicated objects, we’ll be taking a look at a rather trivial example. This is done purely for the purposes of space optimization, so that the complexity of ...