Re: Virtualization of a 'protected interface'
tristan wrote:
I am afraid you misunderstand the meaning of proxy.
Proxy is only a representative for a real class entity, or it could be
responsible for some POST-DO / AFTER-DO operations.
OK, I should have called it decorator. However, the problem stays the same.
InternalService() is protected, that indicates it is available for
MyBase inheritance hierarchy, but Proxy shouldn't be within that hierarchy.
So this design is irrational. At least, MyProxy shouldn't inherit from
MyBase.
Of course I could split MyBase into an interface with public methods
only and an abstract base with some common implementations. But I still
have the same problem with the abstract base. The abstract base is
incomplete and need help from the derived class to complete the
implementation. Looking at the specification I need to virtualize this
implementation for the decorator to work.
But since N decorator instances can references the same MyImplementation
I cannot use inheritance and simply overload the methods. This would
lead to independent copies of MyImplementation in memory. Besides being
wasting of memory these instances may become inconsistent, and this
breaks the data model.
Marcel
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