adapter-Any real example of Adapter Pattern [closed]

Answer 1

A real example can be reporting documents in an application. Simple code as here.

Adapters i think are very useful for programming structure.

class WordAdaptee implements IReport{
    public void report(String s) {
        System.out.println(s +" Word");
    }
}

class ExcellAdaptee implements IReport{
    public void report(String s) {
        System.out.println(s +" Excel");
    }
}


class ReportAdapter implements IReport{
    WordAdaptee wordAdaptee=new WordAdaptee();
    @Override
    public void report(String s) {
        wordAdaptee.report(s);
    }
}

interface IReport {
    public void report(String s);
}

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //create the interface that client wants
        IReport iReport=new ReportAdapter();

        //we want to write a report both from excel and world
        iReport.report("Trial report1 with one adaptee");  //we can directly write the report if one adaptee is avaliable 

        //assume there are N adaptees so it is like in our example
        IReport[] iReport2={new ExcellAdaptee(),new WordAdaptee()};

        //here we can use Polymorphism here  
        for (int i = 0; i < iReport2.length; i++) {
            iReport2[i].report("Trial report 2");
        }
    }
}

Results will be:

Trial report1 with one adaptee Word
Trial report 2 Excel
Trial report 2 Word

Answer 2

This is an example of adapter implementation:

interface NokiaInterface {
    chargementNokia(x:boolean):void
}


class SamsungAdapter implements NokiaInterface {
//nokia chargement adapted to samsung
    chargementNokia(x:boolean){
        const old= new SamsungCharger();
        let y:number = x ? 20 : 1;
        old.charge(y);
      }
}


class SamsungCharger {
      charge(x:number){
            console.log("chrgement x ==>", x);
      }
}


function main() {
      //charge samsung with nokia charger
      const adapter = new SamsungAdapter();
      adapter.chargementNokia(true);
}

Answer 3

Use Adapter when you have an interface you cannot change, but which you need to use. See it as you're the new guy in an office and you can't make the gray-hairs follow your rules - you must adapt to theirs. Here is a real example from a real project I worked on sometime where the user interface is a given.

You have an application that read all the lines in a file into a List data structure and displayed them in a grid (let's call the underlying data store interface IDataStore). The user can navigate through these data by clicking the buttons "First page", "Previous page", "Next page", "Last Page". Everything works fine.

Now the application needs to be used with production logs which are too big to read into memory but the user still needs to navigate through it! One solution would be to implement a Cache that stores the first page, next, previous and last pages. What we want is when the user clicks "Next page", we return the page from the cache and update the cache; when they click last page, we return last page from cache. In the background we have a filestream doing all the magic. By so doing we only have four pages in memory as opposed to the entire file.

You can use an adapter to add this new cache feature to your application without the user noticing it. We extend the current IDataStore and call it CacheDataStore. If the file to load is big, we use CacheDataStore. When we make a request for First, Next, Previous and Last pages, the information is routed to our Cache.

And who knows, tomorrow the boss wants to start reading the files from a database table. All you do is still extend IDataStore to SQLDataStore as you did for Cache, setup the connection in the background. When they click Next page, you generate the necessary sql query to fetch the next couple hundred rows from the database.

Essentially, the original interface of the application did not change. We simply adapted modern and cool features to work it while preserving the legacy interface.

Answer 4

Convert an Interface into another Interface.

Any real example of Adapter Pattern

In order to connect power, we have different interfaces all over the world. Using Adapter we can connect easily like wise.

Answer 5

@Justice o's example does not talk about adapter pattern clearly. Extending his answer - We have existing interface IDataStore that our consumer code uses and we cannot change it. Now we are asked to use a cool new class from XYZ library that does what we want to implement, but but but, we cannot change that class to extend our IDataStore, seen the problem already ? Creating a new class - ADAPTER, that implements interface our consumer code expects, i.e. IDataStore and by using class from the library whose features we need to have - ADAPTEE, as a member in our ADAPTER, we can achieve what we wanted to.

Answer 6

You can use the Adapter design pattern when you have to deal with different interfaces with similar behavior (which usually means classes with similar behavior but with different methods). An example of it would be a class to connect to a Samsung TV and another one to connect to a Sony TV. They will share common behavior like open menu, start playback, connect to a network and etc but each library will have a different implementation of it (with different method names and signatures). These different vendor specific implementations are called Adaptee in the UML diagrams.

So, in your code (called Client in the UML diagrams), instead of hard code the method calls of each vendor (or Adaptee), you could then create a generic interface (called Target in UML diagrams) to wrap these similar behaviors and work with only one type of object.

The Adapters will then implement the Target interface delegating its method calls to the Adaptees that are passed to the Adapters via constructor.

For you to realize this in Java code, I wrote a very simple project using exactly the same example mentioned above using adapters to deal with multiple smart TV interfaces. The code is small, well documented and self explanatory so dig on it to see how a real world implementation would look like.

Just download the code and import it to Eclipse (or your favorite IDE) as a Maven project. You can execute the code by running org.example.Main.java. Remember that the important thing here is to understand how classes and interfaces are assembled together to design the pattern. I also created some fake Adaptees in the package com.thirdparty.libs. Hope it helps!

https://github.com/Dannemann/java-design-patterns