Visitor

Purpose

The Visitor Pattern lets you outsource operations on objects to other objects. The main reason to do this is to keep a separation of concerns. But classes have to define a contract to allow visitors (the Role::accept method in the example).

The contract is an abstract class but you can have also a clean interface. In that case, each Visitor has to choose itself which method to invoke on the visitor.

UML Diagram

Code

You can also find this code on GitHub

RoleVisitor.php

.. literalinclude:: RoleVisitor.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

RecordingVisitor.php

.. literalinclude:: RecordingVisitor.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

Role.php

.. literalinclude:: Role.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

User.php

.. literalinclude:: User.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

Group.php

.. literalinclude:: Group.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

Test

Tests/VisitorTest.php

.. literalinclude:: Tests/VisitorTest.php
   :language: php
   :linenos: