2.7. Facade

2.7.1. Purpose

The primary goal of a Facade Pattern is not to avoid you having to read the manual of a complex API. It’s only a side-effect. The first goal is to reduce coupling and follow the Law of Demeter.

A Facade is meant to decouple a client and a sub-system by embedding many (but sometimes just one) interface, and of course to reduce complexity.

• A facade does not forbid you the access to the sub-system

• You can (you should) have multiple facades for one sub-system

That’s why a good facade has no new in it. If there are multiple creations for each method, it is not a Facade, it’s a Builder or a [Abstract|Static|Simple] Factory [Method].

The best facade has no new and a constructor with interface-type-hinted parameters. If you need creation of new instances, use a Factory as argument.

2.7.2. UML Diagram

2.7.3. Code

You can also find this code on GitHub

Facade.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade;

class Facade
{
    public function __construct(private Bios $bios, private OperatingSystem $os)
    {
    }

    public function turnOn()
    {
        $this->bios->execute();
        $this->bios->waitForKeyPress();
        $this->bios->launch($this->os);
    }

    public function turnOff()
    {
        $this->os->halt();
        $this->bios->powerDown();
    }
}

OperatingSystem.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade;

interface OperatingSystem
{
    public function halt();

    public function getName(): string;
}

Bios.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade;

interface Bios
{
    public function execute();

    public function waitForKeyPress();

    public function launch(OperatingSystem $os);

    public function powerDown();
}

2.7.4. Test

Tests/FacadeTest.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade\Tests;

use DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade\Bios;
use DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade\Facade;
use DesignPatterns\Structural\Facade\OperatingSystem;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class FacadeTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testComputerOn()
    {
        $os = $this->createMock(OperatingSystem::class);

        $os->method('getName')
            ->will($this->returnValue('Linux'));

        $bios = $this->createMock(Bios::class);

        $bios->method('launch')
            ->with($os);

        /** @noinspection PhpParamsInspection */
        $facade = new Facade($bios, $os);
        $facade->turnOn();

        $this->assertSame('Linux', $os->getName());
    }
}