Bridge Pattern - Design Patterns (ep 11)

Video series on Design Patterns for Object Oriented Languages. This time we look at the Bridge Pattern.
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[@AFPinerosG]

Guys, can anyone tell the difference between Strategy and Bridge? They seem so similar. Basically allow a class to define an implementation on runtime. Strategy is about encapsulating and plugging-in a behavior... But isn't Bridge doing the same here? The ConcreteImplementors are basically the strategies. What's the difference?

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00:03 The bridge pattern is a part of the additional patterns mentioned in the book Design Patterns. 01:48 The bridge pattern decouples an abstraction from its implementation. 06:10 The Bridge Pattern decouples abstraction from implementation. 08:30 The Cartesian product is a new set of all combinations of two sets. 13:01 Different views and media types need to be handled in a flexible manner. 15:13 The bridge pattern allows combining any arbitrary resource with any arbitrary view. 19:14 Using the Bridge pattern reduces the number of classes needed to handle different combinations. 21:23 The bridge pattern allows us to isolate the specifications of artist resources and view nests. 25:43 The Bridge Pattern allows views to use specific methods from resources without breaking the interface segregation principle. 27:52 Avoid duplicating behavior across different resources. 31:38 The resources in the bridge pattern have different concretions. 33:31 A view in the Bridge pattern can access a resource that behaves as a resource. 37:17 Separating artist specific, book specific, and playlist specific functionalities into their own inheritance hierarchy. 39:14 The video discusses the Bridge Pattern in design patterns. 42:54 An artist resource implemented the interface IResource and adapted over an artist. 44:46 The artist resource needs to delegate to a specific artist to get the required information. 48:37 The Bridge pattern allows for separating platform-specific and platform-independent code. 50:34 The bridge pattern allows a view to ask a resource for the information it needs to construct a particular view.

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Hahaha I have actually heard the Bean comparison before so I guess it must be true :) :) :) Anyways, thank you for the kind words and for watching the series :)

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[@rhmoreira]

Thats another great video. I love your explanations. Basically i would differentiate Bridge Pattern from Adapter pattern as the following: Adapter pattern is meant for interoperability, where a call from the "Adapter interface" should be translated to a call to the "Adaptee Interface", in order to "plug" the calls transparently, so to speak. Bridge interface is meant for data extraction, or data combination, depending on the need. It's a bridge abstraction, relying on a implementor contract, to provide methods to access data, no matter what the implementation is.

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

+konzinov maverick Thank you for the encouragement. I'm glad to hear :) Thanks for sticking with it :)

[@absamurai]

Finally I understood what is that Bridge pattern about! Thanks a lot! P.S. Understood it on the mark of 30-40% of the video, because I really used it already in my work, but didn't understand that I did.

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I’m very glad to hear this is used in class as I use it in class myself 😊😊 Thanks for sharing and for watching 😊

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[@CodeNerdRudi]

Thank you. I read the 'Design Patterns' chapter on Bridge and really couldn't understand how this was different from simple delegation or what problem it was actually trying to solve. I don't know if your interpretation is precisely the problem they are trying to solve, but it certainly gives me a good way of thinking about it that makes sense.

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[@Artem992]

Cannot easily agree that resource is an implementation of a view (abstraction) Yet appreciate the effort to give a 🆒 real life examples explanation that is rich in context and easy to follow!

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Very good point! Thanks :) It might make a bit more sense if we think about it as View (abstraction) and ResourceSpecificView (implementation), but again, this isn't *really* true because the latter *is* not actually a view, it is a resource. So I agree with you 100%. Imho it is the idea of decoupling the abstraction from the implementation (i.e. the usage of the terms abstraction/implementor) that is the culprit here. But I may definitely be wrong so hopefully I will come across some better example in the future :) Thank you very much for your comment! Very interesting :) And thanks for watching :)

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Thanks a lot! Glad you find the channel useful :)

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+sovan misra Thanks! I'm glad to hear. We'll see if they'll stand the test of time :) :) Thanks for watching! :)

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[@simondavis1303]

This is what I understand to implement this pattern in React land: We have a base Card which is our Abstract View. Then we have concretions of this Card, ReadOnlyCard and ActionsCard. We get entities such as Artist or Song from our API. Then for example, we can then do a mapping exercise: Do a artists.map(artist => { }) We can also just create an ArtistReadOnlyCard if we have a specific view to `show` for this card since it it might vary from a SongReadOnlyCard. These videos make me really think on how to create components that I can re-use in other apps and which ones are app specific components. Also entity specific components. This made me think about creating ReactHookForm specific components. Let's say I want to Create a LibPhoneField in order to compose this: TextField -> PhoneField -> LibPhoneField. I might be off topic now. Anyway great video!

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Hey Christopher, this one of the best explanations and examples I have ever come across on Bridge pattern. Thanks much for your efforts and a wonderful brain storming tutorial

[@TheOttoBot]

Man I finally understand this pattern. It is actually extremely simple but it was described in such a confusing way at my university. Great job!

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Somehow I managed to understand Bridge pattern - perfectly clear. I did not have Heads first book... Thank you for the lectures!

[@sushmitagoswami2033]

I love the way you explains the difference between Adapter and Bridge Pattern. Hope to see more videos may be some the real life application where we can fit different patterns.

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I love this explanation for the Bridge design pattern, I've recently been strugling with some sort of similar issue and as long as the requirements grow I'm having a large cartesian product underlying in my implementation. I will apply this particular design pattern in the short term :)

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Great video. Suprised these aren't getting more views. I'm learning so much.

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Thanks :) I'm glad to hear. Feel absolutely free to share the video with friends ;) :)

[@chrisjust7445]

Thanks. Now that I know what the Bridge pattern is, I see I've been using it for years. :) I guess it's one of those patterns that evolves naturally when you start holding references to interfaces instead of actual classes.

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Omg I'm editing the upcoming video currently and I make exactly that statement in the video :) I.e. that the bridge pattern probably is a natural evolution/conclusion from simply programming to interfaces/abstractions. So I couldn't agree with you more :) :) Thanks for watching and for sharing :) :)

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This actually is the best pattern at least to understand abstraction. I also understood the use of Interfaces really well when I understood this pattern.

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

+Houjing Huang Glad to hear :) Thanks for watching :)

[@vinodcs80]

Awesome as always, now I understand what is Bridge pattern about. Eagerly waiting for your next videos. Thanks you again.

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Simply brilliant!

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REALLY SO NICE video~ Thanks Christopher! ☺☺☺

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Great way of explaining the design pattern. I understood the example but as you said at the end, it would be great if you could also list few other scenarios where this pattern would be applicable.

[@gephestus]

Great thanks for making this series!! You make each pattern's goal and details super clear! One thing that upsets me regarding patterns is that i fail to see which patterns to apply when i am encountered with a real-life scenario. I mean sometimes i see a problem that needs to be solved, and my intuition says that it can be solved by using some pattern, but to pick correct pattern is pretty Hard...

[@Brunoenribeiro]

I think the "intent" of each pattern is what helps to choose the "right" one. If you trying to restrict access to something, you probably should use Proxy If you trying to simplify use, you probably should use Facade If you trying to avoid class explosion, you probably should use Decorator Also, I believe there's no *right* one. There's only the pattern that solves the problem, create few ones and works for the team

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Amazing explanation, thank you!

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Great videos Christopher! I really like all of them! It helped me a lot to understand these patterns through your examples and explanations!

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Best explanation I have found so far. great work man

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I hope you'll continue with the serie of patterns, it's very useful and you have a very didactive way to explain. Great video.

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Amazing explanation. Very Clear and engaging. Thanks a lot Sir.

[@claucometa]

I was able to codify in .net this pattern thanks to you, very simple pattern indeed, once you get the grasp of it. The explanations and definitions about it are hard / nonsense though. I went one step further and made the Bridge to implement a generic, so I can use the bridge to implement whatever interface, which whatever return type.

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Fantastic pattern! Fantastically presented!

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Your DP videos are seriously the best explanations anywhere. And I totally agree the definition of the bridge pattern is superconfusing. Especially because the “abstraction” in this case doesn’t need to be conceptually related to its “implementor”. Maybe I’m wrong but I see it as sort of a combination of template and strategy pattern.

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