At first, I thought about this possibly being a Composite pattern, which is typical when you have a class that can be stand-alone or a container of the same type. But, when I read that all of the Alarms
methods are static, I realized it has nothing to do with a Composite.
The fact that all of the Alarms
methods are static implies that Alarms
has no state, and only acts behaviorally on the Alarm
class instances. After looking at the code, it appears as though the Alarms
class is a hybrid of the Facade pattern or even a Visitor pattern, even though its only working on one class.
What the Alarms
class is doing is effectively encapsulating the details of how to work on the Alarm
class, thus simplifying its use for the end-user. I actually like this approach, although one could argue that if its so difficult to use the Alarm
class that it has to be encapsulated like this, then maybe its design should be refactored.