#Issue 18 - Simplifying Integration with Adapter Pattern
Adapter Pattern is a structural design pattern that allows incompatible interfaces to work together.
Suppose you have a laptop that only has a USB-C port and you have an older printer that uses a USB-A cable. Now, rather than getting a new laptop or a new printer what you would usually do is get a converter. You can use a USB-C to USB-A adapter. This adapter allows you to connect your USB-A printer to the USB-C port on your laptop, making them compatible even though they originally had different connectors.
In programming, Adapter Pattern is a structural design pattern that allows incompatible interfaces to work together.
Imagine you have a system that collects information from various sources through APIs. The current data format looks like this:
{
"id": 123,
"name": "Potato",
"price": 49.99
}Now, a new third-party API comes along, but the data they provide is in a different format:
{
"productID": "ABC456",
"productName": "Broccoli",
"cost": 29.95
}Instead of changing your existing system's format, you decide to create a function that acts as a translator, converting the new data format into the format your system understands.
Now, your system can seamlessly integrate data from the new third-party API without changing its internal structure. The adaptNewDataFormat function acts as an adapter, ensuring that the new data fits into the expected format of your system.
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