December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
8h 51m
English
This chapter covers the composite pattern.
Compose objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Composite lets clients treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly.
To help you understand this concept, I will start with an example. Consider a shop that sells different kinds of dry fruits and nuts; let’s say cashews, dates, and walnuts. Each of these items is associated with a certain price. Let’s assume that you can purchase any of these individual items or you can purchase “gift packs” (or boxed items) that contain different ...