Unit 13 Decorator Summary prepared by Kirk Scott 1.

Unit 13 Decorator Summary prepared by Kirk Scott 1

Design Patterns in Java Chapter 27 Decorator Summary prepared by Kirk Scott 2

The Introduction Before the Introduction Suppose you have a set of functionalities where you would like to mix and match the functionalities together You would like to be able to create objects with various functionalities This can be accomplished by repeated, wrapped construction (nested construction) 3

Let one object be the result of one construction sequence Calling a given method on that object results in one subset of functionalities Let another object be the result of another construction sequence Calling the same method on the other object results in a different subset of functionalities 4

The book uses streams and writers from the Java API as the first example of the decorator pattern It uses mathematical functions as the second example This set of overheads will only cover the first example from the book There will be another example that does not come from the book 5

The book previews the definition of the pattern with observations along these lines: When you think of adding functionality to an application you usually think of adding new classes or new methods to existing classes The Decorator design pattern is a model for adding functionality to a code base in a way that leads to a specific result 6

A certain set of methods/functionality will exist in various classes in the code base If the pattern is used, there will be flexibility in making objects that have differing subsets of the existing functionality At run time a program can varying sequences of construction to create objects that have differing functionality in them 7

Book Definition of Pattern Book definition: The intent of Decorator is to let you compose new variations of an operation at runtime. 8

A Classic Example: Streams and Writers The Java API includes a set of classes that are related in such a way that they illustrate the Decorator design pattern These are the stream and writer classes which are used for file I/O and other purposes Let a generic FileReader or FileWriter be constructed in a program It is connected to an external file 9

It is possible to pass the generic reader or writer as a construction parameter when making a more specific kind of reader or writer The new reader or writer adds I/O functionalities that don’t exist in the generic reader or writer The book illustrates this idea in the code on the following overhead 10

public class ShowDecorator { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { FileWriter file = new FileWriter("sample.txt"); BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(file); writer.write("a small amount of sample text"); writer.newLine(); writer.close(); } 11

This example illustrates nested construction A FileWriter is constructed It is then passed as a construction parameter when the BufferedWriter is constructed The BufferedWriter can have FileWriter functionality since it contains a reference to FileWriter The BufferedWriter can also add new functionality 12

The FileWriter class and the BufferedWriter classes both have various write() methods that take various sets of parameters The decorator pattern/nested construction opens up the possibility of overloading This overloading can be accomplished by wrapping calls to a method of the same name on the object sent in at construction time and adding code around the calls 13

The BufferedWriter write() method may take different parameters from the write() method in the FileWriter class The point is that the write() method of BufferedWriter will have different functionality and calling it will give different results from calling write() on a FileWriter object The BufferedWriter could also have entirely different methods with different functionality 14

The PrintWriter class provides a simple, concrete illustration An instance is constructed the same way as the book’s BufferedWriter example FileWriter file = new FileWriter("sample.txt"); PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(file); The PrintWriter class has the methods print() and println() in addition to write(), which it shares with FileWriter 15

From a print writer you gain the ability to write text to a file using the same method calls that you use to put text on the screen So using the decorator pattern, not only can you overload methods; You can also add new methods to the class with different functionality 16

Applying the Pattern with Writers Using the decorator pattern, programmers can write their own file I/O classes that build on the API classes The book’s next example builds a hierarchy of classes that make it possible to format text before writing it to a file The formatting will be simple things like making text upper case or lower case 17

The book refers to these formatting classes as filter classes Generically they might be referred to as decorator classes The book begins the presentation of the topic with the UML diagram given on the next overhead This will require a little explanation, which is given afterwards 18

Both the Writer and FilterWriter abstract classes exist in the Java API FilterWriter extends Writer FilterWriter also contains an instance of Writer 20

This illustrates the basic plan A FilterWriter wraps an instance of its superclass, adding functionality that doesn’t exist in the superclass A programmer can apply the pattern by extending the FilterWriter class Structurally, the idea of a class with a reference to its superclass is already built into the Java API 21

The Decorator and Proxy Patterns You may recall that having a reference to a superclass object was the official design of the proxy pattern In the proxy, the decision was ultimately made that a proxy in spirit was better That meant just implementing a subclass without wrapping an instance of the superclass 22

Because the structure is built into the Java API for writers, there is no avoiding it here The Java API developers decided that this was the right structure for implementing the kind of flexible functionality that they wanted for writers The question of the desirability of this structure will come up again when discussing the advantages of this pattern 23

Java API Documentation of the Class FilterWriter The Java API textual documentation for the FilterWriter class is given on the following overhead When you read this documentation you realize that the API is preparing you to apply the Decorator design pattern if you want to 24

FilterWriter API Documentation Snippet Abstract class for writing filtered character streams. The abstract class FilterWriter itself provides default methods that pass all requests to the contained stream. Subclasses of FilterWriter should override some of these methods and may also provide additional methods and fields. 25

Putting the OozinozFilter Class into the Hierarchy The initial diagram for the book’s example is repeated on the next overhead Because the OozinozFilter class is a subclass of the FileWriter class, it will contain an instance variable of type Writer The user extends the FilterWriter class and works with the wrapped Writer The OozinozFilter class is abstract, so concrete subclasses of it will be needed 26

Adding Concrete Subclasses Next, the book extends its example UML diagram This is shown on the overhead following the next one The diagram emphasizes that the OozinozFilter class contains a Writer (by inheritance from FilterWriter) by drawing the line directly from OozinozFilter to Writer 28

The diagram also shows the OozinozFilter class’s concrete subclasses, which will be the actual filters in the example Note again that the decorator structure of a subclass containing a reference to a superclass object is imposed at the top, in the Java API The programmer makes use of the pattern by making a hierarchy of classes underneath that 29

Each concrete filter will be constructed by passing in a writer All concrete filters ultimately descend from the Writer class Therefore, when constructing instances of a concrete filter, any other kind of filter can be passed in This goes back to CS 202, where you learned that you can pass in a subclass object for a superclass formal parameter 31

Implementing the Abstract Method in the Subclasses OozinozFilter has an abstract write() method This write() method takes a single int at a time as its input parameter, representing a character The concrete, filter subclasses will have to implement this method The filter classes are going to do their work, and differ, according to their implementation of that method 32

The OozinozFilter class also has two concrete write() methods The filter subclasses may simply inherit the write() methods They may override them They may also overload write() 33

Code for the OozinozFilter Class The code for the OozinozFilter class will be given on the overhead following the next one It shows the declaration of the abstract write() method It also shows the implementations of two concrete write() methods 34

When looking at the code, note the following: The first concrete write() method depends on the abstract method The second concrete write() method depends on the first abstract method 35

Much of the remaining explanation of how the pattern works will have to do with how method implementations depend on each other In other words, understanding the pattern doesn’t just mean understanding nested construction It means understanding how the methods are implemented 36

public abstract class OozinozFilter extends FilterWriter { protected OozinozFilter(Writer out) { super(out); } public abstract void write(int c) throws IOException; public void write(char cbuf[], int offset, int length) throws IOException { for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) write(cbuf[offset + i]); } public void write(String s, int offset, int length) throws IOException { write(s.toCharArray(), offset, length); } 37

A Syntactical Note In file I/O there is no effective difference between the char and int types That means that you have a formal parameter of the one type and you can pass an actual parameter of the other type 38

The First Concrete Method Depends on the Abstract Method The first concrete write() method in OozinozFilter depends on the abstract write() method for its implementation This is the call wrapped in the first concrete method: write(cbuf[offset + i]); That call is making use of this method: public abstract void write(int c) throws IOException; 39

The Second Concrete Method Depends on the First Concrete Method The second concrete method in OozinozFilter takes a String as a parameter This is the call wrapped in the second concrete method: write(s.toCharArray(), offset, length); It converts the string parameter to an array of characters and uses the first concrete method Therefore, the second concrete method ultimately relies on the abstract write() method too 40

Polymorphism and Dynamic Binding Trickery The next couple of overheads will try to explain verbally how you get various versions of write in your subclasses Let the scenario be trimmed down to one abstract superclass and one concrete subclass Let the abstract superclass contain an abstract method Let the abstract superclass also contain one concrete method that wraps a call to the abstract method 41

You can’t call either method on an instance of the abstract class There can’t be an instance of an abstract class Both methods in the superclass affect the subclass The subclass has to implement the abstract method The subclass will inherit the concrete method 42

So the subclass has a concrete implementation of the abstract method declared in the superclass Suppose you call the inherited concrete method on a subclass object When the code for that method is run, you encounter a call to the abstract method Dynamic binding says that the version of the method defined in the subclass should be used 43

An Example of a Filter The code for the concrete LowerCaseFilter class is shown on the overhead following the next one In it, the abstract method is implemented to change every character to lower case on output As a result, when any write() method is called on a LowerCaseFilter object, the output will be in lowercase 44

This happens directly if the simple write() method is called Conversion to lowercase happens indirectly if either of the two inherited write() methods are called, since they ultimately depend on the implementation of simple write() in LowerCaseFilter The code uses the toLowerCase() method in the Java Character class so it’s not necessary to manipulate Unicode values to get lower case 45

public class LowerCaseFilter extends OozinozFilter { public LowerCaseFilter(Writer out) { super(out); } public void write(int c) throws IOException { out.write(Character.toLowerCase((char) c)); } 46

The Writer Has Protected Access Notice that in the implementation of write(), you call the inherited write() method on the object out This is an instance variable inherited from the Java FilterWriter class It is declared protected in the FilterWriter class, so subclasses have direct access to it 47

I am critical of the authors when they use this technique Here, it is built into the Java API in order to make it easier for the programmer to use the decorator pattern to make new writers It is less messy than writing something like getOut().write() Protected access has its uses, but it should probably be used sparingly 48

An Example of Nested Construction with a Filter On the overhead following the next one an example illustrating nested construction is given A ConsoleWriter, which writes to the console rather than a file, is constructed It is passed as a construction parameter to the LowerCaseFilter 49

When write() is called on the LowerCaseFilter, the output String with the strange capitalization will go to the console and it will be converted to lowercase The point is that the LowerCaseFilter object contains the console output functionality because it was constructed containing such an object If the LowerCaseFilter were constructed with a file writer, the lower case output would go to a file instead 50

public class ShowLowerCase { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { Writer out = new ConsoleWriter(); out = new LowerCaseFilter(out); out.write("This Text, notably ALL in LoWeR casE!"); out.close(); } 51

For better or worse, it has to be noted that the ConsoleWriter class used in the previous example is not a class in the Java API It doesn’t exist yet… At the end of this section the book gives the writing of such a class as a challenge (You may observe that it would be sort of a relative of MyTerminalIO) 52

Another Example of a Filter The UpperCaseFilter class works the same was as the LowerCaseFilter class The only difference is the call to toUpperCase() in the implementation of the write() method, which is shown below public void write(int c) throws IOException { out.write(Character.toUpperCase((char) c)); } 53

Yet Another Example of a Filter Next the book gives the TitleCaseFilter class It capitalizes every word in a string which follows white space It would be considerably more complicated if you tried to follow the real rules for capitalizing titles The code is given on the next overhead 54

public class TitleCaseFilter extends OozinozFilter { boolean inWhite = true; public TitleCaseFilter(Writer out) { super(out); } public void write(int c) throws IOException { out.write(inWhite ? Character.toUpperCase((char) c) : Character.toLowerCase((char) c)); inWhite = Character.isWhitespace((char) c) || c == '"'; } 55

Yet Another Example of a Filter Next the book gives the CommaListFilter class It puts a comma and a space after every item that’s written It would be considerably more complicated if you tried to insert commas between any words separated by white space in the String to be written The code is given on the next overhead 56

public class CommaListFilter extends OozinozFilter { protected boolean needComma = false; public CommaListFilter(Writer writer) { super(writer); } public void write(int c) throws IOException { if (needComma) { out.write(','); out.write(' '); } out.write(c); needComma = true; } public void write(String s) throws IOException { if (needComma) out.write(", "); out.write(s); needComma = true; } 57

The Filters Overall Keep in mind that the general plan of the filter classes is the same They take a parameter to be written and they “decorate” it or modify it in some way before writing it out The LowerCaseFilter, UpperCaseFilter, and TitleCaseFilter classes changed the characters The CommaListFilter added characters to the output 58

The write() methods in the filter classes are structured pretty much the same way They call an inherited write() method on out out is the reference to the writer inherited from the superclass 59

The inherited write() method will decorate according to the concrete, local version of the abstract write() method was implemented That concrete write() method will add its own decoration How many and which different functionalities you get depends on how many levels of nesting and which classes were used in the construction of the ultimate object that write() is being called on 60

Challenge 27.1 Write the code for RandomCaseFilter.java. 61

Solution 27.1 One solution is: [See the next overhead.] 62

public class RandomCaseFilter extends OozinozFilter { public RandomCaseFilter(Writer out) { super(out); } public void write(int c) throws IOException { out.write(Math.random() <.5 ? Character.toLowerCase((char) c) : Character.toUpperCase((char) c)); } 63

Yet Another Example of a Filter Next the book mentions the WrapFilter class It takes as an input parameter both a Writer and a line length It has the effect of eating up unnecessary white space and adding enough at the beginning of a line of text to center it The book doesn’t bother to give the code because it is too long and complex 64

Another Example of Nested Construction with Filters Next the book gives another example program, ShowFilters, which illustrates how various different filter behaviors can be composed together with nested construction It shows nested construction four levels deep Any input to the program would be output with all of the characteristics defined in each of the writers The code for this example is given on the next overhead 65

public class ShowFilters { public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0])); Writer out = new FileWriter(args[1]); out = new BufferedWriter(out); out = new WrapFilter(out, 40); out = new TitleCaseFilter(out); String line; while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) out.write(line + "\n"); out.close(); in.close(); } 66

Output to the Console The book gives the writing of the ConsoleWriter class as a challenge The ConsoleWriter is tangential to the discussion of the decorator design pattern This part of the book will be skipped 67

How the Decorator Pattern Works How the decorator pattern works will be addressed one more time The picture on the next overhead graphically illustrates the idea of nested construction The first filter object contains an instance of writer Every filter object after that contains an instance of filter, which potentially wraps another instance of filter, and so on 68

Here is an invented phrase that is supposed to illustrate the sequence of method calls: Horizontal recursion The concrete filter classes are all at the same level in the hierarchy At execution time there is a sequence of calls to methods of the same name Because each class wraps an instance of a sibling class, the calls go sideways rather than up and down 70

Advantages of the Decorator Pattern What do you gain by using a pattern where subclasses contain references to an instance of a superclass? One alternative would be a hierarchy of subclasses without superclass instance variables Consider the UML diagram, which is repeated on the next overhead All of the concrete filter classes are siblings The “hierarchy” is flat 71

The advantage of the pattern is complete freedom in composing behaviors Each one of the siblings can “eat” one of the other siblings You can have a chain of wrapped filters including as many or as few as you want 73

How It Works, Again This leads back to the question of how the pattern works The fundamental idea explained at the beginning was that you override a basic method which an inherited method calls If you do nested construction, the write() method of each level depends on the write() method of the level that contains it 74

Look at the code for the LowerCaseFilter write() method again for example: public void write(int c) throws IOException { out.write(Character.toLowerCase((char) c)); } 75

In a sense you could say that the call to write() is recursive Nested construction makes nested writer objects Calling write() on the ultimate object triggers nested calls to the write() method defined in each successive containing object 76

This is how behaviors or functionalities are composed using the pattern Each individual write() method filters, or transforms the output in some way The end result is that the output reflects each of the transformations of the write() methods included by the original nested construction 77

Where Does the Sequence of Calls to write() End? The write() method is implemented in the concrete filter subclasses because it’s abstract in the filter superclass The implementation of the write() method contains a call to write() This obviously doesn’t come from the abstract class 78

It comes from the original writer, which the nested construction of filters wraps The write() method exists in the Writer class When the end of the wrapped write() calls is reached, the write() method of the Writer class is called on the wrapped Writer object 79

Considering Abstract Classes There is a little reminder of how abstract classes work lurking in this example The superclass, Writer, has a write() method The abstract class FilterWriter, a subclass of Writer, has an abstract method write() 80

The concrete filter classes are subclasses of the abstract filter class Because they have an abstract class above them, they do not inherit write() They have to implement that abstract method All the while, there is a valid write() method 2 levels above them in the hierarchy 81

Function Wrappers—Skip The second half of the chapter in the book is based on an example of wrapping functions This will not be covered It should be more useful to consider the other example, which follows 82

Another Example The other example for this unit is not based on cups and seeds It is a relatively straightforward attempt to adapt the book’s ideas to an example that generates output Instead of doing text output, it does graphical output of geometric shapes 83

These are the basic classes of the example: ColorEllipse.java, EllipsePainter.java ColorEllipse is the thing that’s graphically represented EllipsePainter plays the role of the writer in the previous example 84

Output from the Example On the following overhead, output from a sample program is shown In simple terms, the sample program just creates one ellipse The four different appearing ellipses in the output are generated by doing the output of the one ellipse through different decorators It is evident that the display size, shape, color, and location of the ellipse are determined by the decorators 85

UML for the Example A simplified schematic for the decorators in this example is given on the next overhead This example doesn’t have an abstract class Each subclass is shown individually with a reference to the EllipsePainter superclass Also, in the diagram, just 3 painters (decorators) are shown, and they are shown with generic names 87

The Decorators in the Example In total, there are 8 decorator classes in the example These decorator classes alter the way an ellipse is presented on the screen The first 3 decorators are fully explained The rest are analogous to the first 3 89

The First 3 Decorators DoubleMajorEllipsePainter.java: Given a color ellipse, this finds the major (longer) axis and doubles it If the ellipse is a circle, then both axes are doubled If not, the minor axis is not changed 90

MoveRightEllipsePainter.java: Given a color ellipse, this moves the location of the ellipse to the right by adding 200 to the x coordinate of its bounding box. ShiftRedEllipsePainter.java: Given a color ellipse, this increments the red component of its color by the value 85, mod 256. 91

The Rest of the Decorators DoubleMinorEllipsePainter HalveMajorEllipsePainter HalveMinorEllipsePainter MoveLeftEllipsePainter MoveUpEllipsePainter MoveDownEllipsePainter ShiftGreenEllipsePainter ShiftBlueEllipsePainter 92

The screenshot on the following overhead was shown earlier It shows the output of a test program Following the screenshot, the test program will be described Following the description, the code will be given 93

How the Ellipses are Generated in the Test Program Output 1. Upper Left Ellipse A. Create a plain EllipsePainter. B. Paint myEllipse using the latest ellipse painter. 2. Upper Right Ellipse A. Create a MoveRightEllipsePainter using the previous painter as a parameter. B. Create a DoubleMajor EllipsePainter using the previous painter as a parameter. C. Create a ShiftRedEllipsePainter using the previous painter as a parameter. D. Paint myEllipse using the latest ellipse painter. 95

3. Lower Left Ellipse A. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should counteract the move right that is part of the previous ellipse painter. B. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should counteract the double major that is part of the previous ellipse painter. C. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter This ellipse painter should cause the ellipse to be moved down. D. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should cause the minor axis of the ellipse to be half as wide. E. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should cause a blue shift in the ellipse's color. F. Paint myEllipse using the latest ellipse painter. 96

4. Lower Right Ellipse A. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should counteract the move down that is part of the previous ellipse painter. B. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should counteract the halving of the minor axis that is part of the previous ellipse painter. C. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should cause the ellipse to be moved to the left. D. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should cause the major axis of the ellipse to be half as wide. E. Create an ellipse painter using the previous painter as a parameter. This ellipse painter should cause a green shift in the ellipse's color. F. Paint myEllipse using the latest ellipse painter. 97

ColorEllipse Code A subset of the code for the ColorEllipse class is given on the following overheads The code for altering ellipses is packaged in the ColorEllipse class Only the code needed for the first three decorators is given 98

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.lang.*; import java.util.*; public class ColorEllipse { private Ellipse2D.Double ellipseShape; private Color ellipseColor; public ColorEllipse(Ellipse2D.Double ellipseShapeIn, Color ellipseColorIn) { ellipseShape = ellipseShapeIn; ellipseColor = ellipseColorIn; } public Ellipse2D.Double getEllipseShape() { return ellipseShape; } public Color getEllipseColor() { return ellipseColor; } 99

public void doubleMajor() { if(ellipseShape.getWidth() > ellipseShape.getHeight()) { ellipseShape = new Ellipse2D.Double(ellipseShape.getX(), ellipseShape.getY(), 2 * ellipseShape.getWidth(), ellipseShape.getHeight()); } else if(ellipseShape.getHeight() > ellipseShape.getWidth()) { ellipseShape = new Ellipse2D.Double(ellipseShape.getX(), ellipseShape.getY(), ellipseShape.getWidth(), 2 * ellipseShape.getHeight()); } else { ellipseShape = new Ellipse2D.Double(ellipseShape.getX(), ellipseShape.getY(), 2 * ellipseShape.getWidth(), 2 * ellipseShape.getHeight()); } 100

public void shiftRed() { ellipseColor = new Color((ellipseColor.getRed() + 85) % 256, ellipseColor.getGreen(), ellipseColor.getBlue()); } public void moveRight() { ellipseShape = new Ellipse2D.Double(ellipseShape.getX() + 200, ellipseShape.getY(), ellipseShape.getWidth(), ellipseShape.getHeight()); } 101

EllipsePainter Code The code for the EllipsePainter class is given on the overhead following the next one This is the superclass for all of the other painters (decorators) This class is not abstract This makes it possible to display an ellipse without decorations 102

Also, this is one of the rare occasions when you will see me use a protected access modifier The graphics parameter in the EllipsePainter superclass, g2, is inherited by the subclass filter/decorator/painter subclasses It is made directly available to them by declaring g2 protected so that it isn’t necessary to call get() methods on the g2 parameter in the subclass code 103

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.lang.*; import java.util.*; public class EllipsePainter { protected Graphics2D g2; public EllipsePainter(Graphics2D g2In) { g2 = g2In; } public void paintEllipse(ColorEllipse ellipseIn) { g2.setColor(ellipseIn.getEllipseColor()); g2.fill(ellipseIn.getEllipseShape()); } 104

Decorator Code The code for the three individual filter/decorator/painter classes is given on the following overheads 105

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.lang.*; import java.util.*; public class DoubleMajorEllipsePainter extends EllipsePainter { private EllipsePainter ePainter; public DoubleMajorEllipsePainter(EllipsePainter ellipsePainterIn) { super(ellipsePainterIn.g2); ePainter = ellipsePainterIn; } public void paintEllipse(ColorEllipse ellipseIn) { ellipseIn.doubleMajor(); ePainter.paintEllipse(ellipseIn); } 106

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.lang.*; import java.util.*; public class MoveRightEllipsePainter extends EllipsePainter { private EllipsePainter ePainter; public MoveRightEllipsePainter(EllipsePainter ellipsePainterIn) { super(ellipsePainterIn.g2); ePainter = ellipsePainterIn; } public void paintEllipse(ColorEllipse ellipseIn) { ellipseIn.moveRight(); ePainter.paintEllipse(ellipseIn); } 107

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.lang.*; import java.util.*; public class ShiftRedEllipsePainter extends EllipsePainter { private EllipsePainter ePainter; public ShiftRedEllipsePainter(EllipsePainter ellipsePainterIn) { super(ellipsePainterIn.g2); ePainter = ellipsePainterIn; } public void paintEllipse(ColorEllipse ellipseIn) { ellipseIn.shiftRed(); ePainter.paintEllipse(ellipseIn); } 108

UML for the Pattern A simplified schematic for the book’s illustration of the pattern is given on the next overhead This shows an abstract class 109

Lasater’s UML Diagram for the Pattern Lasater’s UML diagram is shown on the overhead following the next one Lasater includes the abstract class as part of the pattern He also tries to indicate the methods (operations) and how they’re part of the pattern It’s useful to see the superclass generically referred to as a component—not specifically a filter or painter 111

In general, some component will have decorator subclasses Notice that Lasater shows the Component class having a ConcreteComponent subclass as well as a Decorator subclass This leads to a cosmic question that won’t be pursued any further: Is the decorator subclass an “improper” subclass—that is, a subclass that “is not a kind of” its superclass? 112

Keep in mind that the UML can’t quite capture the pattern fully It can make it clear that you need to implement a method in the subclasses if there is an abstract method in the abstract superclass Or it can make it clear that you’re overriding the method in the subclasses if the superclass is concrete 114

However, a UML diagram doesn’t typically show the bodies of methods Without lots of comments, the UML diagram doesn’t show these two things: 1. How a method inherited from the superclass depends on the method implemented/overridden in the subclass 115

2. How the overridden method is “dynamic binding recursive” Its implementation contains a call to a method of the same name on the wrapped object It depends on inheriting an existing implementation of a method of that name from a superclass above the abstract class—or from the immediate superclass if it’s concrete And it then depends on the existence of the method in all of the subclasses 116

Summary The Decorator design pattern lets you mix together variations of an operation Input and output streams illustrate the pattern and illustrate the composition of behaviors with nested construction Not only is Java set up in this way, it allows you to create your own I/O (filter) classes that are based on the decoration idea The Decoration pattern can also be applied in other problem domains 117

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