Composite Pattern

You will go over the composite pattern in detail with the aid of a coding example in this lesson.

What is the composite pattern?

The composite pattern is used to structure objects in a tree-like hierarchy. Here, each node of the tree can be composed of either child node(s) or be a leaf (no children objects). This pattern allows the client to work with these components uniformly, that is, a single object can be treated exactly how a group of objects is treated.

This pattern allows the formation of deeply-nested structures. If a leaf object receives the request sent by the client, it will handle it. However, if the recipient is composed of children, the request is forwarded to the child components.

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