Factory Method en C#

Factory method es un patrón de diseño creacional que resuelve el problema de crear objetos de producto sin especificar sus clases concretas.

El patrón Factory Method define un método que debe utilizarse para crear objetos, en lugar de una llamada directa al constructor (operador new). Las subclases pueden sobrescribir este método para cambiar las clases de los objetos que se crearán.

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Ejemplos de uso: El patrón Factory Method se utiliza mucho en el código C#. Resulta muy útil cuando necesitas proporcionar un alto nivel de flexibilidad a tu código.

Identificación: Los métodos fábrica pueden ser reconocidos por métodos de creación, que crean objetos de clases concretas, pero los devuelven como objetos del tipo abstracto o interfaz.

Ejemplo conceptual

Este ejemplo ilustra la estructura del patrón de diseño Factory Method. Se centra en responder las siguientes preguntas:

¿De qué clases se compone?
¿Qué papeles juegan esas clases?
¿De qué forma se relacionan los elementos del patrón?

Program.cs: Ejemplo conceptual

using System;

namespace RefactoringGuru.DesignPatterns.FactoryMethod.Conceptual
{
    // The Creator class declares the factory method that is supposed to return
    // an object of a Product class. The Creator's subclasses usually provide
    // the implementation of this method.
    abstract class Creator
    {
        // Note that the Creator may also provide some default implementation of
        // the factory method.
        public abstract IProduct FactoryMethod();

        // Also note that, despite its name, the Creator's primary
        // responsibility is not creating products. Usually, it contains some
        // core business logic that relies on Product objects, returned by the
        // factory method. Subclasses can indirectly change that business logic
        // by overriding the factory method and returning a different type of
        // product from it.
        public string SomeOperation()
        {
            // Call the factory method to create a Product object.
            var product = FactoryMethod();
            // Now, use the product.
            var result = "Creator: The same creator's code has just worked with "
                + product.Operation();

            return result;
        }
    }

    // Concrete Creators override the factory method in order to change the
    // resulting product's type.
    class ConcreteCreator1 : Creator
    {
        // Note that the signature of the method still uses the abstract product
        // type, even though the concrete product is actually returned from the
        // method. This way the Creator can stay independent of concrete product
        // classes.
        public override IProduct FactoryMethod()
        {
            return new ConcreteProduct1();
        }
    }

    class ConcreteCreator2 : Creator
    {
        public override IProduct FactoryMethod()
        {
            return new ConcreteProduct2();
        }
    }

    // The Product interface declares the operations that all concrete products
    // must implement.
    public interface IProduct
    {
        string Operation();
    }

    // Concrete Products provide various implementations of the Product
    // interface.
    class ConcreteProduct1 : IProduct
    {
        public string Operation()
        {
            return "{Result of ConcreteProduct1}";
        }
    }

    class ConcreteProduct2 : IProduct
    {
        public string Operation()
        {
            return "{Result of ConcreteProduct2}";
        }
    }

    class Client
    {
        public void Main()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("App: Launched with the ConcreteCreator1.");
            ClientCode(new ConcreteCreator1());
            
            Console.WriteLine("");

            Console.WriteLine("App: Launched with the ConcreteCreator2.");
            ClientCode(new ConcreteCreator2());
        }

        // The client code works with an instance of a concrete creator, albeit
        // through its base interface. As long as the client keeps working with
        // the creator via the base interface, you can pass it any creator's
        // subclass.
        public void ClientCode(Creator creator)
        {
            // ...
            Console.WriteLine("Client: I'm not aware of the creator's class," +
                "but it still works.\n" + creator.SomeOperation());
            // ...
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            new Client().Main();
        }
    }
}

Output.txt: Resultado de la ejecución

App: Launched with the ConcreteCreator1.
Client: I'm not aware of the creator's class, but it still works.
Creator: The same creator's code has just worked with {Result of ConcreteProduct1}

App: Launched with the ConcreteCreator2.
Client: I'm not aware of the creator's class, but it still works.
Creator: The same creator's code has just worked with {Result of ConcreteProduct2}

Factory Method en C#

Ejemplo conceptual

Program.cs: Ejemplo conceptual

Output.txt: Resultado de la ejecución

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