I am a lazy programmer, and generate far too many typos. What to do when I want my objects to provide more than one interface and share the implementation amongst themselves? I could write a slew of forwarding methods, but that's sloppy and ugly and blows up the classes. I need mixins but Java doesn't have mixins. (However see here and here.) In C++ I could use implementation inheritance in the standard fashion. But what about Java?
The best I have is forwarding methods:
public interface Interface1 {
void dobeedo();
}
public class Bob implements Interface1 {
private Interface1 mixin1;
public Bob(Interface1 mixin1) {
this.mixin1 = mixin1;
}
public void dobeedo() {
mixin1.dobeedo();
}
}Sure it works, but do you really want to do this for several large interfaces? Poor Bob gets rather cluttered rather quickly.
(NB — What pattern is this? I can't quite put my finger on it. I don't mean the dependency injection, but the forwarding.)
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