Command Pattern - Design Patterns (ep 7)

Video series on Design Patterns for Object Oriented Languages. This time we look at the Command Pattern.
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2023 and still one of the best Design Pattern Playlists.

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Student: Can we do this one by one? Christopher: Yes, let's do it one by one by one by one.

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Your design pattern playlist is one of the best explanations about patterns ever. The last video of this playlist is over 4 years old and there are many patterns left (visitor, chain of responsibility, flyweight, builder, etc.). Are there any plans to cover these ones? It would round this awesome playlist more up :)

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Thank you for sharing. I very much appreciate you taking the time to punch out that comment. I am humbled.

[@timothyjohns8775]

At around 25:20, Chris mentions that command pattern is similar to strategy pattern, and he wasn't sure what the technical difference was. To me, the difference is that in the strategy pattern, the object that gets passed around is an algorithm (i.e. HOW to do something). On the other hand, in the command pattern, the object that gets passed around is a command (i.e. WHAT to do). For example, let's say we have a list of elements. If we already know that we want to sort the list, we might use the strategy pattern to determine how to sort the list. On the other hand, we might use the command pattern to determine what operation to apply to the list, such as to sort the list, or to add an element, or to remove an element, etc.

[@ribaker822]

I agree with this. And I see how the Command can then use the Strategy pattern within itself, to "execute" and "unexecute" depending on what that is.

[@professorfontanez]

Well... in the simplest of terms, both are encapsulating BEHAVIORS. In one context (Strategy), you calling the behavior ALGORITHMS, and in this context (Command), the algorithm is the message or command. The only difference I see is that, for Strategy there is no requirement to undo something that was done in the past. You could say that the Command Pattern is an EXTENSION of the Strategy Pattern.

[@bachihard]

I kinda agree with Professor F here. Command Pattern just feels like Strategy Pattern with an Undo operation.

[@immapartain4712]

I can also see that a subtle difference might be the way the client (Invoker in this case) is using the commands. For instance the order of commands generally matters, so the Invoker would keep track of the commands if they wanted to Undo commands in the order of which they were last executed. While in the Strategy Pattern, clients typically do not need to maintain a collection of strategies where order matters. Of course this is all depending on the scenario. Of course you could create composite hierarchies for both commands and strategies, and then again commands can contain a strategy. So it really all depends on the scenario, but I think in the simplest example we are keeping track of what to either do or undo in relation to the order in which the commands were executed.

[@TooNDeMentIa]

Strategies aren't really meant to be passed around, stored, sent over the network, reversed etc. Commands are. It's the data the command contains, sometimes just the command itself, that defines _what_ should be done and the execute function defines _how_ it should be done.

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Hahah I much appreciate being stomach:able :) :) Thank you very much for watching and for sharing :)

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I totally agree !

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This was so good I feel genuinely mind-blown! The command pattern is crazy powerful

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Спасибо большое Christopher. У тебя хорошо получается объяснять такие сложные темы простыми примерами из жизни. Как раз то что я искал. Удачи тебе.

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Not a problem. I’m glad to have been useful :) Thank you for watching and for your comment :) :)

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[@FR12321]

Wondeful series of videos, it's the first one that I follow that makes me want to rediscover design patterns :-) IMHO the big difference between the Command pattern and the Strategy pattern is : - Command pattern : the invoker exposes a set of commands that can be used by a client, ie: myObject.MyCommand.Execute(), in this case the contract is between the client and the command - Strategy pattern : the object that contains strategies exposes methods that are then delegated to strategies, ie: myObject.DoSomething(...), in this case, the contract is between the client and the object, the client never calls directly the strategy In the example, the Click... methods should not exist, they actually represent the action of the user pushing on the button, otherwise, it's exactly the same as the strategy pattern ;-) Hope this helps.

[@sankait3036]

Was struggling with the Command pattern until I found your video, very clear explanation. Thank you so much!

[@jsharick7]

I was really struggling to wrap my head around this one, just because there is a lot of verbiage thrown around very quickly, making it hard to latch onto anything in every other explanation. I really needed the time you took to break out down, rephrase sentences, etc. It's much simpler than everything else made it seem! Thank you so much for making this!

[@simondavis1303]

Another example would be building a calculator: We have multiple Commands: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Redo, Undo We have a Calculator which has buttons that invoke these commands. Then our receiver which is the display, shows the results of those commands. I'm loving these videos! Starting to see the world in a brand new way! Thank you so much!

[@karteekbhat6688]

Thank you for the amazing video series -:) This was pretty awesome.Having said that,i felt the way this scenario was implemented in HeadFirst book(using setCommand method to map a particular slot to an implementation of ICommand interface) seemed a bit better /made a bit more sense

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Very well explained. Able to understand the command pattern with clarity. Thanks a lot.

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Thank you very much been tryna understand this command but I feel this is the first time I actually got a good hang off it plus I think i am more likely a visual learner

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Another excellent explanation of design patterns. Thanks for these videos. By the way that 21:09 was amazing. I just rolled back to see that again :)

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at least twice* :)

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Very clear!! it was a great lecture! Now Im gonna go straight to intelliJ and write some code for command pattern...

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

+Callerooo Thank you. I'm glad to hear that the videos help support the literature :) Thank you for watching and for commenting! :D

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[@muho121]

Great explanation! I have been watching this series and so far this one is the first to make me actually laugh out loud :D 21:09

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Heheh :) It was actually worse but I felt too much like a buffoon and had to cut the rest of the fall out :D

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Once this entire patterns episode done. You could post that videos as bloopers :P

[@Ivo68]

he just showed the feature of redo. "so the command ..." redo() "so the command..."

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