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3 Design Patterns CPP Creational m3 Slides

The document discusses different types of factories that can be used for object creation including factory methods, external factories, inner factories, and abstract factories. A factory method is a function that creates objects, a factory can take care of object creation and reside inside or outside an object, and factory hierarchies can create related objects.

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3 Design Patterns CPP Creational m3 Slides

The document discusses different types of factories that can be used for object creation including factory methods, external factories, inner factories, and abstract factories. A factory method is a function that creates objects, a factory can take care of object creation and reside inside or outside an object, and factory hierarchies can create related objects.

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Factories

Dmitri Nesteruk
@dnesteruk dn@activemesa.com http://activemesa.com
Module Overview

Motivation
Point Initialization Example
Factory Method
Factory External Class
Factory Inner Class
Abstract Factory
Motivation
 Object creation logic becomes too convoluted
 Constructor is not descriptive
- Name mandated by name of containing type
- Cannot overload with same sets of arguments with different names
- Can turn into ‘optional parameter hell’
 Object creation (non-piecewise, unlike Builder) can be outsourced to
- A separate function (Factory Method)
- That may exist in a separate class (Factory)
- You can even have a hierarchy of classes with Abstract Factory
A separate component responsible solely
Factory for the wholesale (not piecewise) creation
of objects.
Abstract A factory construct used to construct
Factory object in hierarchies.
Factory A function that helps create objects. Like a
Method constructor but more descriptive.
Module Overview

A factory method is a function that


creates objects
A factory can take care of object creation
A factory can reside inside the object or
be external
Hierarchies of factories can be used to
create related objects

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