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Constructing Simple Hierarchies with Composition

Constructing Simple Hierarchies with Composition

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There is another common form of inheritance, very different from parent-child inheritance, called composition. Using an object in composition is easy. All you have to do is assign an object as the value for a private member variable. For example, if double represents a class, we could say that this.mSize is one element of the composition. This means that even simple classes use a composition of built-in types. Complex classes add structures and objects to the composition. Unlike parent-child inheritance where the parent's interface is public, the interface of every object in the composition remains private. In MATLAB, there is overlap between parent-child inheritance and composition. Parent-child inheritance is a special case of composition. The child is a primary object and the parent is a secondary object. This might seem backward but it is consistent with the way primary and secondary were defined. The parent is a secondary object because the parent object is stored as an element in the child's private structure.

Chapter Contents:

  • 15.1 Composition
  • 15.1.1 The cLineStyle Class
  • 15.1.1.1 cLineStyle's private/ctor_ini
  • 15.1.1.2 cLineStyle's fieldnames
  • 15.1.1.3 cLineStyle's get
  • 15.1.1.4 cLineStyle's set
  • 15.1.1.5 cLineStyle's private/ctor_2
  • 15.1.2 Using a Primary cShape and a Secondary cLineStyle
  • 15.1.2.1 Composition Changes to cShape's ctor_ini.m
  • 15.1.2.2 Adding LineWeight to cShape's fieldnames.m
  • 15.1.2.3 Composition Changes to cShape's get.m
  • 15.1.2.4 Composition Changes to cShape's set.m
  • 15.1.2.5 Composition Changes to cShape's draw.m
  • 15.1.2.6 Composition Changes to cShape's Other Member Functions
  • 15.2 Test Drive
  • 15.3 Summary
  • 15.4 Independent Investigations

Inspec keywords: object-oriented programming

Other keywords: parent object; parent-child composition; child object; this.mSize function; Matlab; private member variable; simple hierarchy construction; parent-child inheritance

Subjects: Object-oriented programming

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