Flyweight
Intent
Use sharing to support a large number of fine-grained objects, some of which have the same internal state.
Class Diagram
- Flyweight: Flyweight object
- IntrinsicState: internal state, flyweight objects share internal state
- ExtrinsicState: External state, the external state of each flyweight object is different
Implementation
public interface Flyweight {
void doOperation(String extrinsicState);
}
public class ConcreteFlyweight implements Flyweight {
private String intrinsicState;
public ConcreteFlyweight(String intrinsicState) {
this.intrinsicState = intrinsicState;
}
@Override
public void doOperation(String extrinsicState) {
System.out.println("Object address: " + System.identityHashCode(this));
System.out.println("IntrinsicState: " + intrinsicState);
System.out.println("ExtrinsicState: " + extrinsicState);
}
}
public class FlyweightFactory {
private HashMap<String, Flyweight> flyweights = new HashMap<>();
Flyweight getFlyweight(String intrinsicState) {
if (!flyweights.containsKey(intrinsicState)) {
Flyweight flyweight = new ConcreteFlyweight(intrinsicState);
flyweights.put(intrinsicState, flyweight);
}
return flyweights.get(intrinsicState);
}
}
public class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
FlyweightFactory factory = new FlyweightFactory();
Flyweight flyweight1 = factory.getFlyweight("aa");
Flyweight flyweight2 = factory.getFlyweight("aa");
flyweight1.doOperation("x");
flyweight2.doOperation("y");
}
}
Object address: 1163157884
IntrinsicState: aa
ExtrinsicState: x
Object address: 1163157884
IntrinsicState: aa
ExtrinsicState: y
JDK
Java uses caching to speed up access times for large numbers of small objects.
- java.lang.Integer#valueOf(int)
- java.lang.Boolean#valueOf(boolean)
- java.lang.Byte#valueOf(byte)
- java.lang.Character#valueOf(char)