Low Coupling GRASP Pattern

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Problem

How to support low dependency, low change impact, and increase reuse?

Solution

Assign responsibilities so that coupling remains low. Try to avoid one class to have to know about many others.

Key points about low coupling

  • Low dependencies between �artifacts� (classes, modules, components).
  • There shouldn�t be too much of dependency between the modules, even if there is a dependency it should be via the interfaces and should be minimal.
  • Avoid tight-coupling for collaboration between two classes (if one class wants to call the logic of a second class, then first class needs an object of second class it means the first class creates an object of the second class).
  • Strive for loosely coupled design between objects that interact.
  • Inversion Of Control (IoC) / Dependency Injection (DI) - With DI objects are given their dependencies at creation time by some third party (i.e. Java EE CDI, Spring DI�) that coordinates each object in the system. Objects aren�t expected to create or obtain their dependencies�dependencies are injected into the objects that need them. The key benefit of DI�loose coupling.

Implementation


This is an example of loose coupling. In this class, Traveler class is not tightly coupled with Car or Bike implementation. Instead by applying dependency injection mechanism, the loose coupling implementation is achieved to allow start journey with any class which has implemented Vehicle interface.
Step 1: Vehicle interface to allow loose coupling implementation.
interface Vehicle {
 public void move();
}
Step 2: Car class implements Vehicle interface.
class Car implements Vehicle {
 @Override
 public void move() {
  System.out.println("Car is moving");
 }
}
Step 3: Bike class implements Vehicle interface.
class Bike implements Vehicle {
 @Override
 public void move() {
  System.out.println("Bike is moving");
 }
}
Step 4: Now create Traveller class which holds the reference to Vehicle interface.
class Traveler {
 private Vehicle v;
 public Vehicle getV() {
  return v;
 }
 public void setV(Vehicle v) {
     this.v = v;
 }

 public void startJourney() {
  v.move();
 }
}
Step 5: Test class for loose coupling example - Traveler is an example of loose coupling.
public static void main(String[] args) {
 Traveler traveler = new Traveler();
 traveler.setV(new Car()); // Inject Car dependency
 traveler.startJourney(); // start journey by Car
 traveler.setV(new Bike()); // Inject Bike dependency
 traveler.startJourney(); // Start journey by Bike
}

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