Lexicon

Common Interface

Kind: constraint

Layer: Design Patterns Core

Record: lexicon:common-interface

Canonical: Lexicon

The requirement that a wrapper and the object it wraps share one interface so they remain interchangeable.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Remote Stub and before Incompatible Interfaces.

Category

  • Structural Patterns

Required by

  • Decorator Pattern

Linked from

  • Structural Patterns