Design Patterns - Composition
// Design Patterns - Structural - Composition:
Composite pattern is used where we need to treat a group of objects in similar
way as a single object. Composite pattern composes objects in term of a tree
structure to represent part as well as whole hierarchy. This type of design
pattern comes under structural pattern as this pattern creates a tree structure
of group of objects.
This pattern creates a class that contains group of its own objects. This class
provides ways to modify its group of same objects.
// Step 1: Create Employee class having list of Employee objects.
public class Employee {
private String name;
private String dept;
private int salary;
private List<Employee> subordinates;
// constructor
public Employee(String name,String dept, int sal) {
this.name = name;
this.dept = dept;
this.salary = sal;
subordinates = new ArrayList<Employee>();
}
public void add(Employee e) {
subordinates.add(e);
}
public void remove(Employee e) {
subordinates.remove(e);
}
public List<Employee> getSubordinates(){
return subordinates;
}
public String toString(){
return ("Employee :[ Name : " + name + ", dept : " + dept + ", salary :" +
salary+" ]");
}
}
// Step 2: Use the Employee class to create and print employee hierarchy
Employee CEO = new Employee("John","CEO", 30000);
Employee headSales = new Employee("Robert","Head Sales", 20000);
Employee headMarketing = new Employee("Michel","Head Marketing", 20000);
Employee clerk1 = new Employee("Laura","Marketing", 10000);
Employee clerk2 = new Employee("Bob","Marketing", 10000);
Employee salesExecutive1 = new Employee("Richard","Sales", 10000);
Employee salesExecutive2 = new Employee("Rob","Sales", 10000);
CEO.add(headSales);
CEO.add(headMarketing);
headSales.add(salesExecutive1);
headSales.add(salesExecutive2);
headMarketing.add(clerk1);
headMarketing.add(clerk2);
//print all employees of the organization
System.out.println(CEO);
for (Employee headEmployee : CEO.getSubordinates()) {
System.out.println(headEmployee);
for (Employee employee : headEmployee.getSubordinates()) {
System.out.println(employee);
}
}
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