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Scala Design Patterns

You're reading from   Scala Design Patterns Design modular, clean, and scalable applications by applying proven design patterns in Scala

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471305
Length 396 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ivan Nikolov Ivan Nikolov
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Design Patterns Out There and Setting Up Your Environment 2. Traits and Mixin Compositions FREE CHAPTER 3. Unification 4. Abstract and Self Types 5. Aspect-Oriented Programming and Components 6. Creational Design Patterns 7. Structural Design Patterns 8. Behavioral Design Patterns – Part One 9. Behavioral Design Patterns – Part Two 10. Functional Design Patterns – the Deep Theory 11. Applying What We Have Learned 12. Real-Life Applications 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

The builder design pattern

The builder design pattern helps to create instances of classes using class methods rather than the class constructors. It is particularly useful in cases where a class might need multiple versions of its constructor in order to allow different usage scenarios.

Moreover, in some cases, it might not even be possible to define all combinations or they might not be known. The builder design pattern uses an extra object, called builder, in order to receive and store initialization parameters before building the final version of an object.

An example class diagram

In this subsection, we will provide a class diagram for the builder pattern the way it was classically defined and the way it looks in other...

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