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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition
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Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

by Ivan Nikolov
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
396 pages
11h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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The composite design pattern

The composite design pattern is used to describe groups of objects that should be treated the same way as a single one.

The purpose of the composite design pattern is to compose objects into tree structures to represent whole-part hierarchies.

The composite design pattern is useful for removing code duplication and avoiding errors in cases where groups of objects are generally treated the same way. A popular example could be a filesystem in which we have directories, which can have other directories or files. Generally, the interface to interact with directories and files is the same, so they are good candidates for a composite design pattern.

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