Proxy Pattern - Design Patterns (ep 10)

Video series on Design Patterns for Object Oriented Languages. This time we look at the Proxy Pattern.
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"Instead of calling the THING you want to call you call the THING which call the THING you want !!" Nice definition, liked it!

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

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[@safvanp567]

00:01 The proxy pattern provides a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it. 01:56 Proxy pattern is used to control access to resources and solve access-related problems. 06:01 Proxy pattern adds additional behavior to control access to the underlying object. 07:58 Using a virtual proxy allows for additional behavior before making calls to an object. 12:12 Using methods is a flexible approach that allows for future changes. 14:13 Premature optimization can lead to inefficient code 17:59 Proxy pattern allows deferring the instantiation of the underlying book parser 19:42 Proxy pattern is used to create expensive objects on demand rather than immediately. 23:23 Proxy pattern is used to control access to an expensive operation. 25:11 The proxy pattern controls access to the real subject and follows the same interface. 28:44 The proxy pattern involves a proxy class that acts as a placeholder for another class, known as the real subject. 30:17 Create an instance variable that defaults to null for Lazy Book Parser Proxy. 33:58 The proxy pattern delays the instantiation of a concrete book parser until it is needed. 35:44 The proxy pattern allows instantiation of the book parser only when required, improving performance.

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Thank you very much. That makes me happy to hear. I wish I could deliver more and faster. Gotta keep the balance with my day job :) But as I get the flow up I will hopefully be able to. Thank you very much for watching :)

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[@HarithAldabbagh]

This is by far the best explanation of the proxy pattern I've watched on youtube! Thank you!

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maan, I've been watching these videos and writing notes all day long. Thanks.

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Bringing up the "Premature optimization" is brilliant 💡. Thanks!

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[@Rappomon]

They could be a little shorter tho :D

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As usual amazing explanation Chris. Keep up the good work. Thanks a lot.

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

+pradeepsanju Glad to hear! I will. Thank you for the encouragement and thank you for watching :)

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open, smash 'like' button, watch - my algorithm for your videos. I call this pattern "gratitude". Thanks a lot for your great job!

[@emersontavera9362]

I'm reading the Head first design patterns book, I used to think that I already had a good understanding of OOP, but that book changed everything, I realized I just knew the name of the tools and maybe how they were written in java, but I had no idea how to use them, after learning about design patterns marked a new start for me. I came here to have some help with the Proxy pattern and you were awesome, thank you, now I'll go ahead and start reading the chapter about the proxy pattern in the book, keep it up man, you are a great teacher.

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[@zahidkhankhan]

quite interesting and explain in an abstract way. which make it more interesting. appreciated your efforts keep it up buddy..

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Learnt first 10 design patterns and done for now. Will come back later, maybe during the 2nd half of 2020.

[@michor10]

It would have been pretty cool if you had talked a little bit about how virtual proxies can also override a client's method or property. This, in my opinion, makes virtual proxies super powerful (assuming, of course, that the language allows for it and that the client class has been defined appropriately) Thanks a lot for the great video!

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Chris, you're an awesome pedagogue !!! Thanks a lot !

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Im glad to hear :) and glad to have you onboard :)

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I had astigmatism and I started wearing new glasses. I was happy to see everything clear. Until I watched this video: D.Even so thanks for your informative video :)

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

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Great video. Content and explanation were really useful, thanks! I know you mentioned the autofocus and are aware of it but just a suggestion: Perhaps avoid using autofocus all together? Use a deeper depth of field and set your focal point to 2/3rds of the distance from the whiteboard. After this is set, leave the focus for the entire video. There's no need for the camera to be constantly re-adjusting focus as you move your arm back and forth because that data is irrelevant to what the viewers need to see.

Again nice explanation. Thank you for share your knowledge :)

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Great videos and explanations! Thank you very much. I was looking for an episode on the differences between facade, proxy and decorator patterns but couldn't find it. Maybe you'd be so kind to point to it. Thanks! P.S. Love it when your cat participates :)

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Awesome. I’m glad to hear :) Welcome :)

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Haha thanks! I'm glad to hear :) Actually there are two cats but one of them seems to always be around when the camera is out :D Thanks for watching :)

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Awesome as always, you are a very good teacher! Just a question: what about the GoF patterns which the book "Head first" doesn't explain? Are you going to make some videos about them? I hope so, it would be great :D

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[@leonarddacosta7710]

Hi Christopher, I must firstly say that you’re a great teacher. I’ve been feasting on your presentations on Design Patterns and enjoying every bit of it. I’ve looked at this particular tutorial 3 times but I couldn’t seem to grasp the concept properly then I found why: I think your example don’t quite fit the pattern. Here’s why: The base interface on the right, ie the Implementor needs to itself be a specialised form of the Abstraction hence the name Implementor. With this understanding the definition makes total sense “Decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently”. In your example IResource would need to be a specialised version of View to fit the Bridge Pattern which makes no sense. My comment is not to take away from your work by the way, your work is awesome stuff. Let me know what you think. This is a really powerful pattern.

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Someone would say ANOTHER ONE! Great Job Dude!

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

+konzinov maverick Yeeeeeeea they don't wanna see us win!

[@swapnilkhole]

great video. Guess, who uses the proxy pattern heavily as you've said for the lazy initialization? of course, hibernate. When you declare explicitly that I'd like to have an object lazily initialized, hibernate obliges it by using proxy around it. So that ORM class is instantiated only when we 'really' want to do something on it, until then it is just hanging around there as a simple proxy class . Again, great video!

[@oeurnravuth9078]

You very good explanation. I like it so much!

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Thanks! And thanks for watching :)

[@oleksandr.pastukhov]

Christopher, thanks a lot, very nice explanation :)

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

And thank *you* for watching :)

[@JATR1X]

Great video as always! small criticism: I think a better example would be to introduce a "setBookString" method instead of working with constructors. Since the constructor is not part of the IBookParser interface, we can not really rely on it when Proxying the BookParser class.

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Thanks a lot for this amazing explanation 🤓

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Nice explanation Christopher !

[@ChristopherOkhravi]

+Amann Thank you. I'm glad to hear it's useful. And thank you for watching :)

[@mathiasyeremiaaryadi9097]

I think what you mentioned around 11-12 minute is "encapsulation" , where you can access the field through method instead, by using setter and getter method. cmiiw

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Instead of book I prefer to watch this playlist again xD

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Thanks for the easy-to-understand explanation & cat though 😀

[@ryanrichard4805]

Great video. Very informative.

[@ArjonJasonCastro]

Best examples of Proxy pattern are Mockery(mocked objects or services) as used in unit testing.

[@imedboufares2422]

Good explanation MAN , thank you

[@PA-vf5st]

Hello Christopher, I like your videos and the way you explain it...I have been following your videos for my better understanding abt DP....Can I request you about including real business scenario where we can implement these DP's...Please have a 10 min of slot in your video abt telling us real scenarios where we can implement this DP....

[@tjgawhane]

Thanks for explaining proxy with such ease to understand. I have one thing in my mind that is LazyBookParserProxy is not thread safe while creating instance of RealBookParser, we may end up having multiple RealParser

[@frueskens]

you should use a thread save singleton in order to create the real book parser

[@chrisjust7445]

I never thought of the Proxy pattern as having 3 different flavors, but I guess that makes sense. BTW, since you almost always run out of room on your whiteboard, maybe you should rehearse what you're going to write on the board so you know how much room you need. Either that or get a bigger whiteboard. :) At my least company we used to rehearse our sprint demos the day before, so we could iron out some of the wrinkles and prepare for the questions better.

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[@ChristopherOkhravi]

Haha I’m sorry that I kept you up all night but I’m glad to hear you found the videos engaging! :) And I assume it was worth it since you stuck with it 😀 Thank you very very much for the encouragement and great suggestion. I will try my best! 😄😄

[@ankitavyas7996]

Thank you Chris, for amazing tutorials. Isn't this pattern very similar to singleton pattern, except that we create object on-demand through some method instead of constructor in singleton, or am I understanding this wrong?

[@mahmoudashraf117]

awesome example . thanks alot!

[@blackprincess4603]

Amazing explanation 😍 i love you

[@djwave28]

A huge thanks to what your doing here. Bought the book and watching all your videos.. I get the proxy stuff and see the benefits. I am wondering about the caching. Do you have material/reference as to generically choose a caching methods? Being mostly PHP oriented I wonder about the duration of the url request cycle and I am fighting with this concept.

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Group of Devs said design patterns are difficult till Christopher enters the room.

[@crankitsourav8686]

Hey Christopher , Thank you very much for this great video series . According to the code that you have mentioned at last it seems same to singleton pattern.(one time creation object) Can you please brief me how this proxy pattern is difference from singleton pattern ??

[@bmiguelmf]

Design pattern God. Thank you a lot!

[@masterbonzala]

A real case where I have seen a proxy being used was when our architect made the system into three layers, we had a lot of sensitive code that we didn't want to edit, so some of the classes of the core of the application became proxies to to the data access layer, which otherwise would have been nothing but duplicate code in a separate assembly

[@ericchou6503]

Well explained. Very clear. Now I understand the cat pattern... I mean proxy pattern.

[@lpatrasco]

Question: is it still appropriate to use proxy pattern when you own the original object implementation? It makes sense to proxy another library object to enhance or change it’s behavior. But does it make sense to proxy your own object that you could just modify instead of proxying? I know of the open-close principals. So proxying already existing object that I own the implementation of would obey the open-close principle but also would possibly create layers upon layers upon layers. Also, I’d like to hear more on dangers and gotchas of each pattern.

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A Very very good explainer

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great! Thank you!

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Congratulations and thaks to share!

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thanks a ton for this amazing video.................

[@TheGao1978]

Really like this playlist. A bit late to the convo but in the example in the vid, in the case we're doing this because we're using an external lib, then how can we inject a proxy after the fact? Surely if it wasn't designed with the interface, we can't make the concrete subject, i.e. BP in the example, implement a new interface later. Correct?

[@ArjonJasonCastro]

It is a good design that you use methods acessors so that if you change it later, you will just simply change its concrete object implementing the same method interface