Qns regarding Builder Pattern example

restless · January 8th, 2010, 09:26 PM

With reference to productBuilder class in page 35, i wonder what does the statement

Code:

$this->_xml = $configs;

do?

or should the build() method be

Code:

public function build(){
 $this->_product->setSize($this->_xml['size']);
 $this->_product->setType($this->_xml['type']);
 $this->_product->setColor($this->_xml['color']);
}

instead?

AaronSaray · January 10th, 2010, 01:59 PM

Hey - great catch. The example should be the following code:

PHP Code:


			
class productBuilder

{

    protected $_product = NULL;

    protected $_configs = array();



    public function __construct($configs)

    {

        $this->_product = new product();

        $this->_configs = $configs;

    }



    public function build()

    {

        $this->_product->setSize($this->_configs['size']);

        $this->_product->setType($this->_configs['type']);

        $this->_product->setColor($this->_configs['color']);

    }



    public function getProduct()

    {

        return $this->_product;

    }

}

Sorry for any confusion. Thanks so much!