# 🌿 Composite
Real world example
Every organization is composed of employees. Each of the employees has the same features i.e. has a salary, has some responsibilities, may or may not report to someone, may or may not have some subordinates etc.
In plain words
Composite pattern lets clients treat the individual objects in a uniform manner.
Wikipedia says
In software engineering, the composite pattern is a partitioning design pattern. The composite pattern describes that a group of objects is to be treated in the same way as a single instance of an object. The intent of a composite is to "compose" objects into tree structures to represent part-whole hierarchies. Implementing the composite pattern lets clients treat individual objects and compositions uniformly.
Programmatic Example
Taking our employees example from above. Here we have different employee types
interface Employee
{
public function __construct(string $name, float $salary);
public function getName(): string;
public function setSalary(float $salary);
public function getSalary(): float;
public function getRoles(): array;
}
class Developer implements Employee
{
protected $salary;
protected $name;
protected $roles;
public function __construct(string $name, float $salary)
{
$this->name = $name;
$this->salary = $salary;
}
public function getName(): string
{
return $this->name;
}
public function setSalary(float $salary)
{
$this->salary = $salary;
}
public function getSalary(): float
{
return $this->salary;
}
public function getRoles(): array
{
return $this->roles;
}
}
class Designer implements Employee
{
protected $salary;
protected $name;
protected $roles;
public function __construct(string $name, float $salary)
{
$this->name = $name;
$this->salary = $salary;
}
public function getName(): string
{
return $this->name;
}
public function setSalary(float $salary)
{
$this->salary = $salary;
}
public function getSalary(): float
{
return $this->salary;
}
public function getRoles(): array
{
return $this->roles;
}
}
Then we have an organization which consists of several different types of employees
class Organization
{
protected $employees;
public function addEmployee(Employee $employee)
{
$this->employees[] = $employee;
}
public function getNetSalaries(): float
{
$netSalary = 0;
foreach ($this->employees as $employee) {
$netSalary += $employee->getSalary();
}
return $netSalary;
}
}
And then it can be used as
// Prepare the employees
$john = new Developer('John Doe', 12000);
$jane = new Designer('Jane Doe', 15000);
// Add them to organization
$organization = new Organization();
$organization->addEmployee($john);
$organization->addEmployee($jane);
echo "Net salaries: " . $organization->getNetSalaries(); // Net Salaries: 27000
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