Adapter Design Pattern Examples

Learn about the adapter design pattern with some coding examples.

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Overview

Suppose we have a system (code/client) that requires us to use a legacy triangle. Let’s say that our system can’t directly communicate with the LegacyRectangle class. The LegacyRectangle class expects that a rectangle is specified utilizing the coordinates of the bottom left and top right corners. Meanwhile, our code expects to specify a rectangle with the coordinates of the bottom left corner, the width, ...