Re: Singleton --- Just Look and give Suggestion's

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:39:18 -0800 (PST)
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On Mar 5, 6:15 pm, srdgame <srdg...@gmail.com> wrote:

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My perferred Singleton way, If I want to make class A to be
singleton, I will declear it as:
class A : public Singleton< A >
{
}


With a semicolon after the }, of course:-).

This is more or less the standard idiom, of course.

namespace srdgame
{

template <class T>
class Singleton
{
public:
    static T* get_instance()
    {
        return &(get_singleton());
    }
    static T& get_singleton()
    {
        static T instance;
        return instance;
    }
    ~Singleton(){};
protected:
    Singleton(const Singleton& sig);
    Singleton& operator = (const Singleton& sig);
    Singleton(){};}
;


This has the disadvantage that the singleton will be destructed
some time when static objects are destructed. This usually
isn't what is wanted.

My own singleton uses a policy to control this:

<code>
// DestructionPolicy:
// ==================
//
//! Determines whether the destructor will be called on exit or
//! not. (Unless there is a very strong reason to call it, it is
//! recommended that it not be called, so as to avoid order of
//! destruction issues.)
//
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
enum DestructionPolicy
{
    neverDestruct,
    destructOnExit
} ;

// Singleton:
// ==========
//
//! Makes a singleton for UserClass. If UserClass should always
//! be a singleton, it can derived from this template class,
//! declaring this template class as friend and its constructor as
//! private.
//!
//! This implementation is thread safe if and only if the first
//! call to instance takes place before threading starts. This
//! template ensures that the constructor is called at least once
//! during static initialization; on normal implementations, this
//! means that the singleton will be thread safe if threading is
//! not started before main.
//
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
template< typename UserClass, DestructionPolicy dtorPolicy =
neverDestruct >
class Singleton
{
public:
    static UserClass& instance() ;

private:
    static UserClass* ourInstance ;

    template< DestructionPolicy discrimPolicy >
    class Discrim {} ;
    static UserClass* createInstance( Discrim< neverDestruct > ) ;
    static UserClass* createInstance( Discrim< destructOnExit > ) ;
} ;

template< typename UserClass, DestructionPolicy dtorPolicy >
UserClass* Singleton< UserClass, dtorPolicy >::
                    ourInstance
        = &Singleton< UserClass, dtorPolicy >::instance() ;

template< typename UserClass, DestructionPolicy dtorPolicy >
UserClass&
Singleton< UserClass, dtorPolicy >::instance()
{
    if ( ourInstance == NULL ) {
        ourInstance = createInstance( Discrim< dtorPolicy >() ) ;
    }
    return *ourInstance ;
}

template< typename UserClass, DestructionPolicy dtorPolicy >
UserClass*
Singleton< UserClass, dtorPolicy >::createInstance(
    Discrim< neverDestruct > )
{
    return new UserClass ;
}

template< typename UserClass, DestructionPolicy dtorPolicy >
UserClass*
Singleton< UserClass, dtorPolicy >::createInstance(
    Discrim< destructOnExit > )
{
    static UserClass theOneAndOnly ;
    return &theOneAndOnly ;
}
</code>

Like yours, it's meant to be derived from. This seemed so
obvious to me that I forgot to document it. (One should
probably also assign a UserClass* to a Singleton< UserClass >*
somewhere in the code, so that it won't compile *unless*
UserClass derives from it.)

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