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The manufacturing of specific restricted access containers with specific insertion strategy will be done by concrete implementations of the following abstract factory interface.
package rac;
/*** Abstract Factory to manufacture RACs.
*/public interface IRACFactory {
/*** Returns an empty IRAContainer.
*/public IRAContainer makeRAC();
}
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.
The source code for the following examples can be downloaded at this link .
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;
}}
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]);
}});
}}
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);}
});}
}
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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