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Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS
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Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS

by Carlo Chung
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
8h 59m
English
Apress
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Chapter 19. Strategy

Do you remember the last time you stuffed a bunch of different algorithms in the same block of code and used spaghetti of if-else / switch-case conditional statements to determine which one to use? The algorithms could be a bunch of functions/methods of similar classes that solve related problems. For example, I have a routine that validates some input data. The data itself can be of any data type (e.g., CGFloat, NSString, NSInteger, etc.). Each of the data types requires a different validation algorithm. If we can encapsulate each algorithm as an object, then we can eliminate a bunch of if-else / switch-case statements for data type checking in order to determine what algorithm to use.

In object-oriented software design, we ...

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