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  • Restrict the users from seeing inside or working on the inside of the container.
  • Have simple put(data) and get() methods. Note the lack of specification of how the data goes in or comes out of the container.
  • However, a "policy" must exist that governs how data is added ("put") or removed ("get"). Examples:
    • First in/First out (FIFO) ("Queue")
    • Last in/First out (LIFO) ("Stack")
    • Retrieve by ranking ("Priority Queue")
    • Random retrieval
  • The policy is variant behavior -->abstract it.
    • The behavior of the RAC is independent of exactly what the policy does.
    • The RAC delegates the actual adding ("put") work to the policy.
    • The RAC is only dependent on the existence of the policy, not what it does.
    • The policy is a "strategy" for adding data to the RAC. See the Strategy design pattern .
    • Strategy pattern vs. State pattern -- so alike, yet so different!

The manufacturing of specific restricted access containers with specific insertion strategy will be done by concrete implementations of the following abstract factory interface.

Iracfactory.java

package rac; /*** Abstract Factory to manufacture RACs. */public interface IRACFactory { /*** Returns an empty IRAContainer. */public IRAContainer makeRAC(); }

Examples

The following is an (abstract) implementation of IRACFactory using LRStruct as the underlining data structure. By varying the insertion strategy, which is an IAlgo on the internal LRStruct , we obtain different types of RAC: stack, queue, random, etc.

UML diagram of the abstract RAC and RAC factory definitions plus a few concrete RAC factories.

The source code for the following examples can be downloaded at this link .

Alrsracfactory.java

package rac; import listFW.*;import listFW.factory.*; import lrs.*;/** * Implements a factory for restricted access containers. These* restricted access containers are implemented using an LRStruct to * hold the data objects.*/ public abstract class ALRSRACFactory implements IRACFactory {/** * Implements a general-purpose restricted access container using* an LRStruct. How? ** The next item to remove is always at the front of the list of * contained objects. This is invariant!* * Insertion is, however, delegated to a strategy routine; and* this strategy is provided to the container. This strategy * varies to implement the desired kind of container, e.g., queue * vs. stack.* * This nested static class is protected so that classes derived from its* factory can reuse it to create other kinds of restricted access * container.*/ protected static class LRSRAContainer implements IRAContainer {private IAlgo _insertStrategy; private LRStruct _lrs;public LRSRAContainer(IAlgo strategy) { _insertStrategy = strategy;_lrs = new LRStruct(); }/** * Empty the container.*/ public void clear() {_lrs = new LRStruct(); }/*** Return TRUE if the container is empty; otherwise, return * FALSE.*/ public boolean isEmpty() {return (Boolean)_lrs.execute(CheckEmpty.Singleton); }/** * Return TRUE if the container is full; otherwise, return* FALSE. ** This implementation can hold an arbitrary number of * objects. Thus, always return false.*/ public boolean isFull() {return false; }/** * Return an immutable list of all elements in the container.*/ public IList elements(final IListFactory fact) {return (IList)_lrs.execute(new IAlgo() { public Object emptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... nu) {return fact.makeEmptyList(); }public Object nonEmptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... nu) { return fact.makeNEList(host.getFirst(),(IList)host.getRest().execute(this)); }}); }/** * Remove the next item from the container and return it.*/ public Object get() {return _lrs.removeFront(); }/** * Add an item to the container.*/ public void put(Object input) {_lrs.execute(_insertStrategy, input); }public Object peek() { return _lrs.getFirst();} }} /*** Package private class used by ALRSRACFactory to check for emptiness of its internal LRStruct. */class CheckEmpty implements IAlgo { public static final CheckEmpty Singleton= new CheckEmpty();private CheckEmpty() { }public Object emptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) { return Boolean.TRUE;} public Object nonEmptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) {return Boolean.FALSE; }}

Lrsstackfactory.java

package rac; import lrs.*;public class LRSStackFactory extends ALRSRACFactory { /*** Create a ``last-in, first-out'' (LIFO) container. */public IRAContainer makeRAC() { return new LRSRAContainer(new IAlgo() {public Object emptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) { return host.insertFront(input[0]); }public Object nonEmptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) { return host.insertFront(input[0]); }}); }}

Lrsqueuefactory.java

package rac; import lrs.*;public class LRSQueueFactory extends ALRSRACFactory { /*** Create a ``first-in, first-out'' (FIFO) container. */public IRAContainer makeRAC() { return new LRSRAContainer(new IAlgo() {public Object emptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) { return host.insertFront(input[0]); }public Object nonEmptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) { return host.getRest().execute(this, input);} });} }

Randomracfactory.java

package rac; import lrs.*;/* * Implements a factory for restricted access containers, including a* container that returns a random item. */public class RandomRACFactory extends ALRSRACFactory { /*** Create a container that returns a random item. */public IRAContainer makeRAC() { return new LRSRAContainer(new IAlgo() {public Object emptyCase(LRStruct host, Object... input) { return host.insertFront(input[0]); }public Object nonEmptyCase(LRStruct host, Object input) { /** Math.Random returns a value between 0.0 and 1.0. */if (0.5>Math.random()) return host.insertFront(input[0]); elsereturn host.getRest().execute(this, input); }}); }}

But can we push the abstraction further?  Is the difference between a stack and a queue really anything more than how the data is ordered?

Now, let's go on an look at the ordering object and priority queues...

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