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Go Design Patterns

You're reading from   Go Design Patterns Best practices in software development and CSP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466204
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mario Castro Contreras Mario Castro Contreras
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Ready... Steady... Go! FREE CHAPTER 2. Creational Patterns - Singleton, Builder, Factory, Prototype, and Abstract Factory Design Patterns 3. Structural Patterns - Composite, Adapter, and Bridge Design Patterns 4. Structural Patterns - Proxy, Facade, Decorator, and Flyweight Design Patterns 5. Behavioral Patterns - Strategy, Chain of Responsibility, and Command Design Patterns 6. Behavioral Patterns - Template, Memento, and Interpreter Design Patterns 7. Behavioral Patterns - Visitor, State, Mediator, and Observer Design Patterns 8. Introduction to Gos Concurrency 9. Concurrency Patterns - Barrier, Future, and Pipeline Design Patterns 10. Concurrency Patterns - Workers Pool and Publish/Subscriber Design Patterns

Chain of responsibility design pattern


Our next pattern is called chain of responsibility. As its name implies, it consists of a chain and, in our case, each link of the chain follows the single responsibility principle.

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The single responsibility principle implies that a type, function, method, or any similar abstraction must have one single responsibility only and it must do it quite well. This way, we can apply many functions that achieve one specific thing each to some struct, slice, map, and so on.

When we apply many of these abstractions in a logical way very often, we can chain them to execute in order such as, for example, a logging chain.

A logging chain is a set of types that logs the output of some program to more than one io.Writer interface. We could have a type that logs to the console, a type that logs to a file, and a type that logs to a remote server. You can make three calls every time you want to do some logging, but it's more elegant to make only one and provoke...

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