Re: Derivable singleton implementation
Faisal wrote:
I have a generic Singleton class.
//Singleton.h
template <class TYPE>
class CSingleTon
{
protected:
CSingleTon()
{}
virtual ~CSingleTon(){}
public:
static TYPE* Instance()
{
if( NULL == m_pInstance )
m_pInstance = new TYPE();
return m_pInstance;
}
static void Destroy()
{
delete m_pInstance;
m_pInstance = NULL;
}
protected:
static TYPE* m_pInstance;
};
template <class TYPE>
TYPE* CSingleTon<TYPE>::m_pInstance = NULL;
#define SET_SINGLETON( classname ) friend class CSingleTon<classname>;
//end of file Singleton.h
And I uses this class to create singletone classes
like
class CGlobalDataStore : public CSingleTon<CGlobalDataStore>
{
SET_SINGLETON(CGlobalDataStore);
};
This is working correctly.
Now I want to derive a class from CGlobalDataStore( which is also
singleton).
Don't derive from CSingleTon in the first place. You can do something =
like this:
class CGlobalDataStore {
static CGlobalDataStore* Instance() {
return CSingleTon<CGlobalDataStore>::Instance();
};
class CAnotherStore: public CGlobalDataStore {
static CAnotherStore* Instance() {
return CSingleTon<CAnotherStore>::Instance();
};
I don't quite see how this design makes sense though. You now have two =
singletons - one CGlobalDataStore and one CAnotherStore - so there are =
two instances of CGlobalDataStore in the program (one on its own and one =
as a subobject of CAnotherStore), which kind of defeats the point of it =
being a singleton.
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