TypeScript Design Patterns

Interface segregation principle

We've already discussed the important role played by abstractions in object-oriented design. The abstractions and their derived classes without separation usually come up with hierarchical tree structures. That means when you choose to create a branch, you create a parallel abstraction to all of those on another branch.

For a family of classes with only one level of inheritance, this is not a problem: because it is just what you want to have those classes derived from. But for a hierarchy with greater depth, it could be.

Example

Consider the TextReader example we took with Template Method Pattern in Chapter 6, Behavioral Design Patterns: Continuous we had FileAsciiTextReader and HttpAsciiTextReader derived from AsciiTextReader ...