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Creational Design Pattern: Builder

This article was done using my notes from:

Alexander Shvets (2019), Dive into Design Patterns, Refactoring.Guru

Builder

Builder is a creational design pattern that lets you construct complex objects step by step. The pattern allows you to produce different types and representations of an object using the same construction code.

Structure

Builder

Code

from __future__ import annotations
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import Any


class Builder(ABC):
    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def product(self) -> None:
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def produce_part_a(self) -> None:
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def produce_part_b(self) -> None:
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def produce_part_c(self) -> None:
        pass


class ConcreteBuilder1(Builder):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self.reset()

    def reset(self) -> None:
        self._product = Product1()

    @property
    def product(self) -> Product1:
        product = self._product
        self.reset()
        return product

    def produce_part_a(self) -> None:
        self._product.add("PartA1")

    def produce_part_b(self) -> None:
        self._product.add("PartB1")

    def produce_part_c(self) -> None:
        self._product.add("PartC1")


class Product1:
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self.parts = []

    def add(self, part: Any) -> None:
        self.parts.append(part)

    def list_parts(self) -> None:
        print(f"Product parts: {', '.join(self.parts)}", end="")


class Director:
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        self._builder = None

    @property
    def builder(self) -> Builder:
        return self._builder

    @builder.setter
    def builder(self, builder: Builder) -> None:
        self._builder = builder

    def build_minimal_viable_product(self) -> None:
        self.builder.produce_part_a()

    def build_full_featured_product(self) -> None:
        self.builder.produce_part_a()
        self.builder.produce_part_b()
        self.builder.produce_part_c()