JavaScript: Functional Programming for JavaScript Developers

Proxy

The final pattern presented in this chapter is the proxy. In the previous section I mentioned how it is expensive to create objects and how we would like to avoid creating too many of them. The proxy pattern provides a method of controlling the creation and use of expensive objects. The UML of the proxy pattern looks like the following diagram:

As you can see, the proxy mirrors the interface of the actual instance. It is substituted in for the instance in all the clients and, typically, wraps a private instance of the class. There are a number of places where the proxy pattern can be of use:

• Lazy instantiation of an expensive object
• Protection ...