Wrapper class
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What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
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Garth Watkins wrote:
What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
Putting together a few of the responses--most classes are like taco filling. Lettuce, meat, cheese, and at all doesn't hold together very well. A wrapper class, like a taco shell, doesn't do much itself, it just makes it easy to hold together all the rest of the stuff. ;P Marc
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What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
Cheers Garth Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints
I'd have to describe a wrapper class as a module that hides something ugly and useless - like MFC Comms, TAPI, and MAPI - behind a friendly, usable facade, like cModem, cPBX or cPostOffice. A wrapper probably should not only make something usable, but also shield a non-expert user from self-inflicted wounds arising from misunderstood or undocumented functions while trying to use the useless. Either that, or it's a taco of some kind. Or maybe a course at McDonalds U on neatly packaging toxic waste 'to go'.
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Garth Watkins wrote:
What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
Putting together a few of the responses--most classes are like taco filling. Lettuce, meat, cheese, and at all doesn't hold together very well. A wrapper class, like a taco shell, doesn't do much itself, it just makes it easy to hold together all the rest of the stuff. ;P Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithI am getting really hungry. And i'm out of taco shells. :sigh: Taco salad it is... :rolleyes:
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Heh, good edit. ;)
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
How can you tell I changed it? I didn't know you had moderator powers??? :vegemite::-D
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.) I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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How can you tell I changed it? I didn't know you had moderator powers??? :vegemite::-D
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.) I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
Amazing the useless things my memory chooses to hold onto sometimes, eh? :rolleyes:
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
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What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
Cheers Garth Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints
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What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
Cheers Garth Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints
You know, the cellophane thingie they wrap things in. Also, Saran Wrap. :-D
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What would your definition of a wrapper class be.
Cheers Garth Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints
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Shog9 wrote:
A class that does little or no real work itself, instead passing requests off onto one or more other classes / APIs.
Yeah, that's a good definition. I tend to think of wrapper classes as providing a higher level of abstraction to the outside world so that the underlying API that they're "wrapping" is easier to use.
An implementation of the Façade pattern.
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I don't think so. I'm not asking how to accomplish a certain programming task. It's actually a second opinion I'm looking for. A friend of mine asked me my defintion of a wrapper class was. I gave her my opinion, and offered to post the a question on codeproject to see what you guys/gals come up with.
Cheers Garth Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints
Hmmm...I wonder what they discuss on the Mathematics and Algorithms[^] forum? :rolleyes:
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