🏃 Visitor Pattern
Tags: swift, programming, computerscience, architecture
Published: 2022-12-13 17:59:24


![Visitor Pattern](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/v2rwkt8laad7hqn5jy1e.png)

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The visitor pattern is used to separate a relatively complex set of structured data classes from the functionality that may be performed upon the data that they hold.

Github https://github.com/sergeyleschev/design-patterns

**Example**
```swift
protocol PlanetVisitor {
    func visit(planet: PlanetAlderaan)
    func visit(planet: PlanetCoruscant)
    func visit(planet: PlanetTatooine)
    func visit(planet: MoonJedha)
}

protocol Planet {
    func accept(visitor: PlanetVisitor)
}

final class MoonJedha: Planet {
    func accept(visitor: PlanetVisitor) { visitor.visit(planet: self) }
}

final class PlanetAlderaan: Planet {
    func accept(visitor: PlanetVisitor) { visitor.visit(planet: self) }
}

final class PlanetCoruscant: Planet {
    func accept(visitor: PlanetVisitor) { visitor.visit(planet: self) }
}

final class PlanetTatooine: Planet {
    func accept(visitor: PlanetVisitor) { visitor.visit(planet: self) }
}

final class NameVisitor: PlanetVisitor {
    var name = ""

    func visit(planet: PlanetAlderaan)  { name = "Alderaan" }
    func visit(planet: PlanetCoruscant) { name = "Coruscant" }
    func visit(planet: PlanetTatooine)  { name = "Tatooine" }
    func visit(planet: MoonJedha)       { name = "Jedha" }
}
```
**Usage**
```swift
let planets: [Planet] = [PlanetAlderaan(), PlanetCoruscant(), PlanetTatooine(), MoonJedha()]

let names = planets.map { (planet: Planet) -> String in
    let visitor = NameVisitor()
    planet.accept(visitor: visitor)

    return visitor.name
}

names
```
Sources: [Github](https://github.com/sergeyleschev/design-patterns/tree/main/Visitor)
> **_Behavioral_**
In software engineering, behavioral design patterns are design patterns that identify common communication patterns between objects and realize these patterns. By doing so, these patterns increase flexibility in carrying out this communication.
Source: [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_pattern)

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