Design patterns that can help achieve the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)

We can achieve SRP by promoting the separation of concerns and ensuring that classes have a single responsibility.

Here are some design patterns that can assist in adhering to SRP:

  1. Adapter Pattern: The Adapter pattern allows you to create a separate class that adapts the interface of one class to another. This separation helps in achieving SRP by isolating the code that deals with the adaptation from the core logic.

  2. Decorator Pattern: The Decorator pattern allows you to add responsibilities to objects dynamically. It helps in achieving SRP by separating the core functionality from additional responsibilities, allowing you to add or remove them as needed.

  3. Strategy Pattern: The Strategy pattern defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each one, and makes them interchangeable. It promotes SRP by allowing you to isolate and encapsulate specific algorithms or strategies in separate classes, each with a single responsibility.

  4. Observer Pattern: The Observer pattern defines a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically. This can help adhere to SRP by separating the subject (the object being observed) from the observers (those interested in its state), ensuring that each class has a distinct responsibility.

  5. Command Pattern: The Command pattern encapsulates a request as an object, thereby allowing for parameterization of clients with queues, requests, and operations. It promotes SRP by separating the sender of a request from its receiver, ensuring that each class is responsible for its specific role.

  6. Repository Pattern: The Repository pattern separates the logic that retrieves data from the data storage (e.g., a database) from the application's core business logic. It helps in achieving SRP by isolating data access and manipulation responsibilities from other application concerns.

  7. Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC) Containers: These are not design patterns but architectural concepts that promote SRP by separating the responsibility of creating and managing object dependencies from the core business logic. Using DI and IoC containers, you can achieve better separation and maintainability.

  8. MVC and MVVM Patterns: These architectural patterns promote the separation of concerns in user interfaces. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) patterns help in achieving SRP by separating the presentation logic (View) from the business logic (Model) and, in some cases, the intermediary controller or view model.

The key to achieving SRP is to identify distinct responsibilities within your application and encapsulate them in separate classes or components. Design patterns provide guidance on how to structure your code to facilitate this separation and maintainability.