What are the benefits of strategy pattern?
Advantages of the Strategy Pattern
- It’s easy to switch between different algorithms (strategies) in runtime because you’re using polymorphism in the interfaces.
- Clean code because you avoid conditional-infested code (not complex).
- More clean code because you separate the concerns into classes (a class to each strategy).
How do you use Strategy patterns?
Use the Strategy when you have a lot of similar classes that only differ in the way they execute some behavior. The Strategy pattern lets you extract the varying behavior into a separate class hierarchy and combine the original classes into one, thereby reducing duplicate code.
How are design patterns related to strategy pattern?
Design Patterns – Strategy Pattern. In Strategy pattern, a class behavior or its algorithm can be changed at run time. This type of design pattern comes under behavior pattern. In Strategy pattern, we create objects which represent various strategies and a context object whose behavior varies as per its strategy object.
How is the client aware of the strategy pattern?
In the classic implementation of the pattern the client should be aware of the strategy concrete classes. In order to decouple the client class from strategy classes is possible to use a factory class inside the context object to create the strategy object to be used.
How are strategy and bridge patterns related to each other?
Both of the patterns have the same UML diagram. But they differ in their intent since the strategy is related with the behavior and bridge is for structure. Further more, the coupling between the context and strategies is tighter than the coupling between the abstraction and implementation in the bridge pattern.
Do you know the strategy pattern in C #?
To get the most out of this post, it helps if you have a basic understanding of object oriented programming and inheritance, and an object oriented programming language like C# or Java. Although I hope you can get the main idea behind the strategy pattern even if you aren’t an expert in C# syntax.