Chapter 3: Understanding Structural Patterns
This chapter covers structural patterns in Kotlin. In general, structural patterns deal with relationships between objects.
We'll discuss how to extend the functionality of our objects without producing complex class hierarchies. We'll also discuss how to adapt to changes in the future or fix some of the design decisions taken in the past, as well as how to reduce the memory footprint of our program.
In this chapter, we will cover the following patterns:
- Decorator
- Adapter
- Bridge
- Composite
- Facade
- Flyweight
- Proxy
By the end of this chapter, you'll have a better understanding of how to compose your objects so that they can be simpler to extend and adapt to different types of changes.
