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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin Build scalable applications using traditional, reactive, and concurrent design patterns in Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998017
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Creational Patterns 3. Understanding Structural Patterns 4. Getting Familiar with Behavioral Patterns 5. Functional Programming 6. Streaming Your Data 7. Staying Reactive 8. Threads and Coroutines 9. Designed for Concurrency 10. Idioms and Anti-Patterns 11. Reactive Microservices with Kotlin 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Observer

Probably one of the highlights of this chapter, this design pattern will provide us with a bridge to the following chapters, dedicated to functional programming.

So, what is Observer pattern about? You have one publisher, which may also be called a subject, that may have many subscribers, which may also be called observers. Each time something interesting happens with the publisher, it should update all of its subscribers.

This may look a lot like the Mediator design pattern, but there's a twist. Subscribers should be able to register or unregister themselves at runtime.

In the classical implementation, all subscribers/observers need to implement a certain interface in order for the publisher to be able to update them. But since Kotlin has higher-order functions, we can omit this part. The publisher will still have to provide means for observers to be able to subscribe...

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