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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

Command design pattern


To finish with this chapter, we will see also the Command pattern--a tiny design pattern but still frequently used. You need a way to connect types that are really unrelated? So design a Command for them.

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The Command design pattern is quite similar to the Strategy design pattern but with key differences. While in the strategy pattern we focus on changing algorithms, in the Command pattern, we focus on the invocation of something or on the abstraction of some type.

A Command pattern is commonly seen as a container. You put something like the info for user interaction on a UI that could be click on login and pass it as a command. You don't need to have the complexity related to the click on login action in the command but simply the action itself.

An example for the organic world would be a box for a delivery company. We can put anything on it but, as a delivery company, we are interested in managing the box instead of its contents directly.

The command pattern...

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