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Adapter is a structural design pattern, which allows incompatible objects to collaborate. The Adapter acts as a wrapper between two objects. It catches calls for one object and transforms them to format and interface recognizable by the second object. It is often used to make existing classes work with others without modifying their source code

Use case: It’s very often used in systems based on some legacy code. In such cases, Adapters make legacy code work with modern classes.

Sample Code: (Source from https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/adapter/php/example#example-1)

<?php

namespace RefactoringGuru\Adapter\RealWorld;

/**
 * The Target interface represents the interface that your application's classes
 * already follow.
 */
interface Notification
{
    public function send(string $title, string $message);
}

/**
 * Here's an example of the existing class that follows the Target interface.
 *
 * The truth is that many real apps may not have this interface clearly defined.
 * If you're in that boat, your best bet would be to extend the Adapter from one
 * of your application's existing classes. If that's awkward (for instance,
 * SlackNotification doesn't feel like a subclass of EmailNotification), then
 * extracting an interface should be your first step.
 */
class EmailNotification implements Notification
{
    private $adminEmail;

    public function __construct(string $adminEmail)
    {
        $this->adminEmail = $adminEmail;
    }

    public function send(string $title, string $message): void
    {
        mail($this->adminEmail, $title, $message);
        echo "Sent email with title '$title' to '{$this->adminEmail}' that says '$message'.";
    }
}

/**
 * The Adaptee is some useful class, incompatible with the Target interface. You
 * can't just go in and change the code of the class to follow the Target
 * interface, since the code might be provided by a 3rd-party library.
 */
class SlackApi
{
    private $login;
    private $apiKey;

    public function __construct(string $login, string $apiKey)
    {
        $this->login = $login;
        $this->apiKey = $apiKey;
    }

    public function logIn(): void
    {
        // Send authentication request to Slack web service.
        echo "Logged in to a slack account '{$this->login}'.\n";
    }

    public function sendMessage(string $chatId, string $message): void
    {
        // Send message post request to Slack web service.
        echo "Posted following message into the '$chatId' chat: '$message'.\n";
    }
}

/**
 * The Adapter is a class that links the Target interface and the Adaptee class.
 * In this case, it allows the application to send notifications using Slack
 * API.
 */
class SlackNotification implements Notification
{
    private $slack;
    private $chatId;

    public function __construct(SlackApi $slack, string $chatId)
    {
        $this->slack = $slack;
        $this->chatId = $chatId;
    }

    /**
     * An Adapter is not only capable of adapting interfaces, but it can also
     * convert incoming data to the format required by the Adaptee.
     */
    public function send(string $title, string $message): void
    {
        $slackMessage = "#" . $title . "# " . strip_tags($message);
        $this->slack->logIn();
        $this->slack->sendMessage($this->chatId, $slackMessage);
    }
}

/**
 * The client code can work with any class that follows the Target interface.
 */
function clientCode(Notification $notification)
{
    // ...

    echo $notification->send("Website is down!",
        "<strong style='color:red;font-size: 50px;'>Alert!</strong> " .
        "Our website is not responding. Call admins and bring it up!");

    // ...
}

echo "Client code is designed correctly and works with email notifications:\n";
$notification = new EmailNotification("developers@example.com");
clientCode($notification);
echo "\n\n";


echo "The same client code can work with other classes via adapter:\n";
$slackApi = new SlackApi("example.com", "XXXXXXXX");
$notification = new SlackNotification($slackApi, "Example.com Developers");
clientCode($notification);

Output:

Client code is designed correctly and works with email notifications:
Sent email with title 'Website is down!' to 'developers@example.com' that says '<strong style='color:red;font-size: 50px;'>Alert!</strong> Our website is not responding. Call admins and bring it up!'.

The same client code can work with other classes via adapter:
Logged in to a slack account 'example.com'.
Posted following message into the 'Example.com Developers' chat: '#Website is down!# Alert! Our website is not responding. Call admins and bring it up!'.