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6.1 Composition Aggregation

1) The lecture discusses inheritance, association, aggregation, and composition relationships between classes. Example programs are provided to illustrate these relationships. 2) Association represents a simple connection between classes where objects have their own lifecycles. Aggregation is a "has a" relationship where objects have their own lifecycles but one owns the other. 3) Composition is a stronger form of aggregation where the child object's lifecycle is tied to the parent's - if the parent is deleted, the child is also deleted. Memory management techniques for each relationship are explained.

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6.1 Composition Aggregation

1) The lecture discusses inheritance, association, aggregation, and composition relationships between classes. Example programs are provided to illustrate these relationships. 2) Association represents a simple connection between classes where objects have their own lifecycles. Aggregation is a "has a" relationship where objects have their own lifecycles but one owns the other. 3) Composition is a stronger form of aggregation where the child object's lifecycle is tied to the parent's - if the parent is deleted, the child is also deleted. Memory management techniques for each relationship are explained.

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Object Oriented

Programming (CC-211-3)
Instructor: Abdullah Javed
([email protected])
Visiting Lecturer,
Punjab University, Jhelum Campus.

Lecture 06.1
Fall 2021
Previous lecture
• Multiple inheritance
• Example program: employ and student class
• Constructor in multiple inheritance
• Example program
Today’s lecture
• Example program – inheritance
• Relationship between class
• Association
• Aggregation
• Composition
• Memory management
• String class
Example program
Problem statement
• Various situations require that pairs of numbers be treated as a unit.
For example, each screen coordinate has an x (horizontal) component
and a y (vertical) component.
• Derive a new class pairStack from Stack that allow to store pair
variables on a stack using a single call to a push()
• push(st); // st is a structure type variable
• retrieve using a single call to pop() function,
• st = pop();
Association
• It is a simple connection or channel between classes
• It is a relationship where all objects have their own lifecycle and there
is no owner
• Example: Department and student
• Multiple students can associate with single department
• Single student can associate with multiple departments
• No ownership
• Both can create and delete independently
Aggregation
• It is a form of association where all object have their own lifecycle but
there is a ownership like parent and child
• Represents as “has a” relationship
• Implementation details:
• Use pointer variables that points to object of other class
• Can use a reference variables that points to object of other class
• Not responsible for creation/destruction of subclass
Cont.
• Example: Employee and Company
• A single employee cannot belong to multiple company.
• If we delete the company, Employee object will not destroy

Employee e(6, “ali”);


Company C(“MS”, &e); c e
name ali ID 6
*emp name ali
Composition
• It is a specialize form of aggregation.
• It is a strong composition
• Parent and child objects have coincident lifetimes
• Child object dose not have it's own lifecycle
• If parent object gets deleted, then all of it's child objects will also be
deleted
Cont.
• Composition gives us 'part-of‘ relationship
• It is a stronger form of aggregation
• It has all the characteristics of aggregation plus two more
• The part may belong to only one whole
• The life time of the part is same as life time of the whole
• For example, it make sense to say that an engine is part-of a car.
• The lifetime of the part (Engine) is managed by the whole (Car), in other
words, when Car is destroyed, Engine is destroyed along with it.
Cont.
• Implementation details
• Use normal member variables
• Can use pointer values if composition class automatically handles
allocation/deallocation
• Responsible for creation/destruction of subclass
UML representation of Composition
Composition – Example
• Relationship between houses and rooms
• House can contains multiple room
• There is no independent life for room and any room cannot belong to
different houses.
• If house is deleted room will also be deleted automatically
Implementation details
class House{ class Room{
char name[30]; char Name[30];
Room rooms[2]; int Length;
…. int Width;
}; ….
};
house
rooms[2] 0 1
name Name Name
Length Length
Width Width
Summary – inheritance
• A class, called derived class can inherit feature of another class called
a base class
• Derived class can add other feature of its own
• Class can be derived publically or privately from base class
• A class can be derived from more than one base class – multiple
inheritance
• Level of inheritance
Cont.
• Aggregation is a “has a” or “part-whole” relationship
• Aggregation in C++: One class contains object of another class
• Composition represents 'part-of‘ relationship

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