在我的开发学习中,我觉得我必须学习更多关于接口的知识。
我经常读到它们,但我似乎无法理解它们。
我读过这样的例子:动物基类,IAnimal接口的东西,如“Walk”,“Run”,“GetLegs”等-但我从来没有工作过,觉得“嘿,我应该在这里使用接口!”
我错过了什么?为什么这个概念对我来说这么难理解!我只是害怕这样一个事实,我可能从来没有意识到一个具体的需要-主要是由于一些缺失的理解他们!这让我觉得我作为一名开发人员缺少了一些东西!如果有人有过这样的经历,并取得了突破,我会很感激一些关于如何理解这个概念的建议。谢谢你!
一些非编程示例可能帮助您了解接口在编程中的适当使用。
There's an interface between electrical devices and the electricity network - it's the set of conventions about the shape of the plugs and sockets and the voltages/currents across them. If you want to implement a new electrical device, as long as your plug follows the rules it will be able to get services from the network. This makes extensibility very easy and removes or lowers the costs of coordination: you don't have to notify the electricity provider about how your new device works and come to a separate agreement about how to plug your new device into the network.
各国都有标准的铁路轨距。这使得铺设铁轨的工程公司和建造在这些铁轨上运行的列车的工程公司之间实现了分工,并使铁路公司有可能在不重新设计整个系统的情况下更换和升级列车。
The service a business presents to a client can be described as an interface: a well defined interface emphasises the service and hides the means. When you put a letter in a mailbox, you expect the postal system to deliver the letter within a given time but you have no expectations about how the letter is delivered: you don't need to know, and the postal service has the flexibility to choose the means of delivery that best meets the requirements and current circumstances. An exception to this is the ability of customers to choose airmail - that's not the kind of interface a modern computer programmer would have designed, since it reveals too much of the implementation.
来自自然的例子:我不太喜欢eats(), makesSound(), moves()等例子。它们确实描述了行为,这是正确的,但它们没有描述交互以及它们是如何被启用的。在自然界中,使相互作用成为可能的界面的一个明显的例子是与繁殖有关的,例如一朵花为蜜蜂提供了一个特定的界面,以便授粉能够发生。
把接口想象成一个契约。这是一种说法,“这些类应该遵循这些规则。”
所以在IAnimal的例子中,它是一种说,“我必须能够在实现IAnimal的类上调用Run, Walk等。”
为什么这个有用?您可能希望构建一个函数,该函数依赖于必须能够在对象上调用Run和Walk这一事实。你可以有以下内容:
public void RunThenWalk(Monkey m) {
m.Run();
m.Walk();
}
public void RunThenWalk(Dog d) {
d.Run();
d.Walk();
}
... 对所有你知道能跑能走的物体重复这一步骤。然而,在你的IAnimal接口中,你可以像下面这样定义函数:
public void RunThenWalk(IAnimal a) {
a.Run();
a.Walk();
}
通过根据接口编程,您实际上是信任类来实现接口的目的。所以在我们的例子中,想法是“我不在乎他们怎么跑和走,只要他们能跑和走。”只要他们履行协议,我的RunThenWalk就有效。它在不了解任何其他课程的情况下运行得很好。”
在这个相关的问题上也有很好的讨论。
使用接口有很多目的。
Use in polymorphic behavior. Where you want to call specific methods of a child class with an inteface having a reference to the child class.
Having a contract with classes to implement all of the methods where it is necessary, like most common use is with COM objects , where a wrapper class is generated on a DLL which inherits the interface; these methods are called behind the scenes, and you just need to implement them but with the same structure as defined in the COM DLL which you can only know through the interface that they expose.
To reduce memory usage by loading specific methods in a class. Like if you have three business objects and they are implemented in a single class, you can use three interfaces.
例如IUser, IOrder, IOrderItem
public interface IUser()
{
void AddUser(string name ,string fname);
}
// Same for IOrder and IOrderItem
//
public class BusinessLayer: IUser, IOrder, IOrderItem
{
public void AddUser(string name ,string fname)
{
// Do stuffs here.
}
// All methods from all interfaces must be implemented.
}
如果你只想添加一个用户,可以这样做:
IUser user = new (IUser)BusinessLayer();
// It will load all methods into memory which are declared in the IUser interface.
user.AddUser();
一个代码示例(结合了Andrew的代码和我的额外的关于“接口的目的是什么”的代码),也说明了为什么在不支持多重继承的语言(c#和java)上接口而不是抽象类:
interface ILogger
{
void Log();
}
class FileLogger : ILogger
{
public void Log() { }
}
class DataBaseLogger : ILogger
{
public void Log() { }
}
public class MySpecialLogger : SpecialLoggerBase, ILogger
{
public void Log() { }
}
注意,FileLogger和DataBaseLogger不需要接口(可以是Logger的抽象基类)。但是考虑到您需要使用第三方记录器,它迫使您使用基类(假设它公开了您需要使用的受保护的方法)。由于语言不支持多重继承,您将无法使用抽象基类方法。
底线是:尽可能使用接口来获得代码的额外灵活性。您的实现不那么受约束,因此它能更好地适应变化。