Re: Factory Design Pattern

From:
"Antoon" <the-dot-Wizard-at-theJuker-dot-org@news1.news.xs4all.nl>
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Date:
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:35:45 CST
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I have written a Factory design Patten in C++. can anybody comment is
it the correct way to do it?

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

/* Display Driver hierarchy */
class DisplayDriver{
public:
DisplayDriver(){}
virtual void display()=0;
};

class LowResolutionDD:public DisplayDriver{
public:
void display(){
cout<<"LowResolutionDD"<<endl;
}
};
class HighResolutionDD:public DisplayDriver{
public:
void display(){
cout<<"HighResolutionDD"<<endl;
}
};

/* Print Driver Hierarchy */

class PrintDriver{
public:
PrintDriver(){}
virtual void print(){}
};

class LowResolutionPD:public PrintDriver{
public:
void print(){
cout<<"LowResolutionPD"<<endl;
}
};
class HighResolutionPD:public PrintDriver{
public:
void print(){
cout<<"HighResolutionPD"<<endl;
}
};
/* abstract factory */
class AbsFactory{

public:
virtual DisplayDriver* CreateDisplayDriver()=0;
virtual PrintDriver* CreatePrintDriver()=0;

};
/* Concrete factory1 */
class ConcreteFactory1: public AbsFactory{
public:
DisplayDriver* CreateDisplayDriver(){ return new HighResolutionDD; }
PrintDriver* CreatePrintDriver(){return new HighResolutionPD; }
};

/* Concrete factory2 */
class ConcreteFactory2: public AbsFactory{
public:
DisplayDriver* CreateDisplayDriver(){ return new LowResolutionDD; }
PrintDriver* CreatePrintDriver(){return new LowResolutionPD; }
};

int main(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
AbsFactory *factobj;
factobj = new ConcreteFactory2;
factobj->CreateDisplayDriver()->display();
factobj->CreatePrintDriver()->print();

}


As far as I can tell this is a correct factory. The decision to couple the

the display resolution capability with the printer resolution seems a bit

sketchy but could be enforced by other design considerations.

Your example implementation might be helped by giving the concrete

factory classes more descriptive names and selecting a concrete

factory based on a command line parameter:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    AbsFactory *factobj;

    if ( argc > 1 && 'H' == argv[1][0] )
    {
        factobj = new HighResFactory;
    }
    else
    {
        factobj = new LowResFactory;
    }
    factobj->CreateDisplayDriver()->display();
    factobj->CreatePrintDriver()->print();
}

Antoon

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