Psuedo-Backwards Builder Pattern?

Question

In a legacy codebase I have a very large class with far too many fields/responsibilities. Imagine this is a Pizza object.

It has highly granular fields like:

• hasPepperoni
• hasSausage
• hasBellPeppers

I know that when these three fields are true, we have a Supreme pizza. However, this class is not open for extension or change, so I can't add a PizzaType, or isSupreme(), etc. Folks throughout the codebase duplicate the same "if(a && b && c) then isSupreme)" logic all over place. This issue comes up for quite a few concepts, so I'm looking for a way to deconstruct this object into many subobjects, e.g. a pseudo-backwards Builder Pattern.

PizzaType pizzaType = PizzaUnbuilder.buildPizzaType(Pizza); //PizzaType.SUPREME

Dough dough = PizzaUnbuilder.buildDough(Pizza);

Is this the right approach? Is there a pattern for this already?

Thanks!

Answer 1

How about the Adapter Pattern?

Basically a wrapper class that has all the functionality you really want which can go easily back and forth to a Pizza class.

MenuPizza myPizza = new MenuPizza(pizza);
PizzaType pizzaType = myPizza.getPizzaType();
DoughType doughType = myPizza.getDoughType();

And you could provide the reverse functionality...

MenuPizza otherPizza = new MenuPizza(PizzaType.SUPREME, DoughType.SOUR);
Pizza pizzaPOJO = otherPizza.getPizzaPOJO();