Flyweight en Python

Flyweight es un patrón de diseño estructural que permite a los programas soportar grandes cantidades de objetos manteniendo un bajo uso de memoria.

El patrón lo logra compartiendo partes del estado del objeto entre varios objetos. En otras palabras, el Flyweight ahorra memoria RAM guardando en caché la misma información utilizada por distintos objetos.

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Ejemplos de uso: El patrón Flyweight tiene un único propósito: minimizar el consumo de memoria. Si tu programa no tiene problemas de escasez de RAM, puedes ignorar este patrón por una temporada.

Identificación: El patrón Flyweight puede reconocerse por un método de creación que devuelve objetos guardados en caché en lugar de crear objetos nuevos.

Ejemplo conceptual

Este ejemplo ilustra la estructura del patrón de diseño Flyweight. 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?

main.py: Ejemplo conceptual

import json
from typing import Dict


class Flyweight():
    """
    The Flyweight stores a common portion of the state (also called intrinsic
    state) that belongs to multiple real business entities. The Flyweight
    accepts the rest of the state (extrinsic state, unique for each entity) via
    its method parameters.
    """

    def __init__(self, shared_state: str) -> None:
        self._shared_state = shared_state

    def operation(self, unique_state: str) -> None:
        s = json.dumps(self._shared_state)
        u = json.dumps(unique_state)
        print(f"Flyweight: Displaying shared ({s}) and unique ({u}) state.", end="")


class FlyweightFactory():
    """
    The Flyweight Factory creates and manages the Flyweight objects. It ensures
    that flyweights are shared correctly. When the client requests a flyweight,
    the factory either returns an existing instance or creates a new one, if it
    doesn't exist yet.
    """

    _flyweights: Dict[str, Flyweight] = {}

    def __init__(self, initial_flyweights: Dict) -> None:
        for state in initial_flyweights:
            self._flyweights[self.get_key(state)] = Flyweight(state)

    def get_key(self, state: Dict) -> str:
        """
        Returns a Flyweight's string hash for a given state.
        """

        return "_".join(sorted(state))

    def get_flyweight(self, shared_state: Dict) -> Flyweight:
        """
        Returns an existing Flyweight with a given state or creates a new one.
        """

        key = self.get_key(shared_state)

        if not self._flyweights.get(key):
            print("FlyweightFactory: Can't find a flyweight, creating new one.")
            self._flyweights[key] = Flyweight(shared_state)
        else:
            print("FlyweightFactory: Reusing existing flyweight.")

        return self._flyweights[key]

    def list_flyweights(self) -> None:
        count = len(self._flyweights)
        print(f"FlyweightFactory: I have {count} flyweights:")
        print("\n".join(map(str, self._flyweights.keys())), end="")


def add_car_to_police_database(
    factory: FlyweightFactory, plates: str, owner: str,
    brand: str, model: str, color: str
) -> None:
    print("\n\nClient: Adding a car to database.")
    flyweight = factory.get_flyweight([brand, model, color])
    # The client code either stores or calculates extrinsic state and passes it
    # to the flyweight's methods.
    flyweight.operation([plates, owner])


if __name__ == "__main__":
    """
    The client code usually creates a bunch of pre-populated flyweights in the
    initialization stage of the application.
    """

    factory = FlyweightFactory([
        ["Chevrolet", "Camaro2018", "pink"],
        ["Mercedes Benz", "C300", "black"],
        ["Mercedes Benz", "C500", "red"],
        ["BMW", "M5", "red"],
        ["BMW", "X6", "white"],
    ])

    factory.list_flyweights()

    add_car_to_police_database(
        factory, "CL234IR", "James Doe", "BMW", "M5", "red")

    add_car_to_police_database(
        factory, "CL234IR", "James Doe", "BMW", "X1", "red")

    print("\n")

    factory.list_flyweights()

Output.txt: Resultado de la ejecución

FlyweightFactory: I have 5 flyweights:
Camaro2018_Chevrolet_pink
C300_Mercedes Benz_black
C500_Mercedes Benz_red
BMW_M5_red
BMW_X6_white

Client: Adding a car to database.
FlyweightFactory: Reusing existing flyweight.
Flyweight: Displaying shared (["BMW", "M5", "red"]) and unique (["CL234IR", "James Doe"]) state.

Client: Adding a car to database.
FlyweightFactory: Can't find a flyweight, creating new one.
Flyweight: Displaying shared (["BMW", "X1", "red"]) and unique (["CL234IR", "James Doe"]) state.

FlyweightFactory: I have 6 flyweights:
Camaro2018_Chevrolet_pink
C300_Mercedes Benz_black
C500_Mercedes Benz_red
BMW_M5_red
BMW_X6_white
BMW_X1_red

Flyweight en Python

Ejemplo conceptual

main.py: Ejemplo conceptual

Output.txt: Resultado de la ejecución

Flyweight en otros lenguajes