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Design Patterns Adapter Pattern

The adapter pattern allows classes with incompatible interfaces to work together by wrapping its own interface around that of an existing class. This pattern provides a way to create classes that can work together even though their interfaces are not compatible. The adapter pattern is demonstrated by creating interfaces for media players and advanced media players. Concrete classes implement these interfaces and an adapter class allows a media player to work with different file formats by wrapping an advanced media player class.

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Design Patterns Adapter Pattern

The adapter pattern allows classes with incompatible interfaces to work together by wrapping its own interface around that of an existing class. This pattern provides a way to create classes that can work together even though their interfaces are not compatible. The adapter pattern is demonstrated by creating interfaces for media players and advanced media players. Concrete classes implement these interfaces and an adapter class allows a media player to work with different file formats by wrapping an advanced media player class.

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Adapter pattern works as a bridge between two incompatible


interfaces. This type of design pattern comes under structural
pattern

as

this

pattern

combines

the

capability

of

two

independent interfaces.
This pattern involves a single class which is responsible to join
functionalities of independent or incompatible interfaces. A real
life example could be a case of card reader which acts as an
adapter between memory card and a laptop. You plugin the
memory card into card reader and card reader into the laptop so
that memory card can be read via laptop.
We are demonstrating use of Adapter pattern via following
example in which an audio player device can play mp3 files only
and wants to use an advanced audio player capable of playing
vlc and mp4 files.

We

have

MediaPlayer

interface

and

concrete

class

AudioPlayer implementing the MediaPlayer interface. AudioPlayer


can play mp3 format audio files by default.
We are having another interface AdvancedMediaPlayer
concrete

classes

implementing

the

and

AdvancedMediaPlayer

interface. These classes can play vlc and mp4 format files.
We want to make AudioPlayer to play other formats as well. To
attain this, we have created an adapter class MediaAdapter
which

implements

the

MediaPlayer

interface

and

uses

AdvancedMediaPlayer objects to play the required format.


AudioPlayer uses the adapter class MediaAdapter passing it the
desired audio type without knowing the actual class which can
play the desired format. AdapterPatternDemo, our demo class
will use AudioPlayer class to play various formats.

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Create interfaces for Media Player and Advanced Media Player.


MediaPlayer.java
public interface MediaPlayer {
public void play(String audioType, String fileName);
}

AdvancedMediaPlayer.java
public interface AdvancedMediaPlayer {
public void playVlc(String fileName);
public void playMp4(String fileName);
}

Create concrete classes implementing the AdvancedMediaPlayer


interface.
VlcPlayer.java
public class VlcPlayer implements AdvancedMediaPlayer{
@Override
public void playVlc(String fileName) {
System.out.println("Playing vlc file. Name: "+ fileName);
}
@Override
public void playMp4(String fileName) {
//do nothing
}
}

Mp4Player.java
public class Mp4Player implements AdvancedMediaPlayer{
@Override
public void playVlc(String fileName) {
//do nothing
}
@Override
public void playMp4(String fileName) {
System.out.println("Playing mp4 file. Name: "+ fileName);

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}
}

Create adapter class implementing the MediaPlayer interface.


MediaAdapter.java
public class MediaAdapter implements MediaPlayer {
AdvancedMediaPlayer advancedMusicPlayer;
public MediaAdapter(String audioType){
if(audioType.equalsIgnoreCase("vlc") ){
advancedMusicPlayer = new VlcPlayer();
}else if (audioType.equalsIgnoreCase("mp4")){
advancedMusicPlayer = new Mp4Player();
}
}
@Override
public void play(String audioType, String fileName) {
if(audioType.equalsIgnoreCase("vlc")){
advancedMusicPlayer.playVlc(fileName);
}
else if(audioType.equalsIgnoreCase("mp4")){
advancedMusicPlayer.playMp4(fileName);
}
}
}

Create concrete class implementing the MediaPlayer interface.


AudioPlayer.java
public class AudioPlayer implements MediaPlayer {
MediaAdapter mediaAdapter;
@Override
public void play(String audioType, String fileName) {
//inbuilt support to play mp3 music files
if(audioType.equalsIgnoreCase("mp3")){
System.out.println("Playing mp3 file. Name: " + fileName);
}
//mediaAdapter is providing support to play other file formats
else if(audioType.equalsIgnoreCase("vlc") || audioType.equalsIgnoreCase
mediaAdapter = new MediaAdapter(audioType);
mediaAdapter.play(audioType, fileName);
}
else{
System.out.println("Invalid media. " + audioType + " format not supported"
}
}
}

Use the AudioPlayer to play different types of audio formats.

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AdapterPatternDemo.java
public class AdapterPatternDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
AudioPlayer audioPlayer = new AudioPlayer();
audioPlayer.play("mp3",
audioPlayer.play("mp4",
audioPlayer.play("vlc",
audioPlayer.play("avi",

"beyond the horizon.mp3");


"alone.mp4");
"far far away.vlc");
"mind me.avi");

}
}

Verify the output.


Playing mp3 file. Name: beyond the horizon.mp3
Playing mp4 file. Name: alone.mp4
Playing vlc file. Name: far far away.vlc
Invalid media. avi format not supported

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