意图intent:为其他对象提供一种代理以控制对这个对象的访问。
适用性:
- 在需要用比较通用和复杂的对象指针代替简单的指针的时候,使用Proxy模式。下面是一些可以使用Proxy模式常见情况:
1) 远程代理(Remote Proxy)为一个对象在不同的地址空间提供局部代表。 NEXTSTEP[Add94] 使用NXProxy类实现了这一目的。Coplien[Cop92] 称这种代理为“大使”(Ambassador)。
2 )虚代理(Virtual Proxy)根据需要创建开销很大的对象。在动机一节描述的ImageProxy就是这样一种代理的例子。
3) 保护代理(Protection Proxy)控制对原始对象的访问。保护代理用于对象应该有不同的访问权限的时候。例如,在Choices操作系统[CIRM93]中KemelProxies为操作系统对象提供了访问保护。
4 )智能指引(Smart Reference)取代了简单的指针,它在访问对象时执行一些附加操作。它的典型用途包括: - 对指向实际对象的引用计数,这样当该对象没有引用时,可以自动释放它(也称为SmartPointers[Ede92])。
- 当第一次引用一个持久对象时,将它装入内存。
- 在访问一个实际对象前,检查是否已经锁定了它,以确保其他对象不能改变它。
Definition
Provide a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.
participants
The classes and/or objects participating in this pattern are:
- Proxy (MathProxy)
- maintains a reference that lets the proxy access the real subject. Proxy may refer to a Subject if the RealSubject and Subject interfaces are the same.
- provides an interface identical to Subject's so that a proxy can be substituted for for the real subject.
- controls access to the real subject and may be responsible for creating and deleting it.
- other responsibilites depend on the kind of proxy:
- remote proxies are responsible for encoding a request and its arguments and for sending the encoded request to the real subject in a different address space.
- virtual proxies may cache additional information about the real subject so that they can postpone accessing it. For example, the ImageProxy from the Motivation caches the real images's extent.
- protection proxies check that the caller has the access permissions required to perform a request.
- Subject (IMath)
- defines the common interface for RealSubject and Proxy so that a Proxy can be used anywhere a RealSubject is expected.
- RealSubject (Math)
- defines the real object that the proxy represents.
Proxy模式的作用就是用Proxy来代替RealSubject。因为RealSubject可能不方便提供给别人使用,而RealSubject和Proxy都是继承自Subject,所以在可以使用RealSubject的地方也都可以使用Proxy。Proxy把接收过来的请求又调用RealSubject,因为Proxy类里面拥有一个RealSubject的实例对象。
sample code in C#
This structural code demonstrates the Proxy pattern which provides a representative object (proxy) that controls access to another similar object.
// Proxy pattern -- Structural example |
using System; |
Output
Called RealSubject.Request()
This real-world code demonstrates the Proxy pattern for a Math object represented by a MathProxy object.
// Proxy pattern -- Real World example |
using System; |
Output
4 + 2 = 6
4 - 2 = 2
4 * 2 = 8
4 / 2 = 2