java-design-patterns/dirty-flag/src/main/java/com/iluwatar/dirtyflag/World.java

/**
 * The MIT License
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Ilkka Seppälä
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
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 *
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 */
package com.iluwatar.dirtyflag;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * 
 * A middle-layer app that calls/passes along data from the back-end.
 * 
 * @author swaisuan
 *
 */
public class World {

  private List<String> countries;
  private DataFetcher df;

  public World() {
    this.countries = new ArrayList<String>();
    this.df = new DataFetcher();
  }

  /**
   * 
   * Calls {@link DataFetcher} to fetch data from back-end.
   * 
   * @return List of strings
   */
  public List<String> fetch() {
    List<String> data = df.fetch();

    countries = data.isEmpty() ? countries : data;

    return countries;
  }
}