Re: Initializing Singletons

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Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>

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Date:

Thu, 8 May 2008 20:40:23 -0700 (PDT)

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On May 8, 9:10 pm, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

Jason Cavett wrote:

On May 8, 11:02 am, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

Jason Cavett wrote:

I'm curious - is it possible (and if so, how) to initialize a
Singleton class when the class used for initialization must also get
an instance of the Singleton class?
Here's a pseudocode example to make that more clear...
class SingletonClass {
  private SingletonClass() {
       ConfigFileReader reader = new ConfigFileReader();
       reader.read();
  }
  // other singleton stuff
}
class ConfigFileReader {
  public ConfigFileReader() {
    // do stuff
  }
  public void read() {
    // read in the config file and get the appropriate information=

    SingletonClass.getInstance().setValues(...);
  }
}
I don't *think* what I want to do is possible. But, if it is, I'm n=

sure how to do it. Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks

Without seeing getInstance, I can't be certain, but it looks like you'l=

get infinite recursion... It would be better to use dependency injectio=

instead... If you absolutely *need* to use singleton (one of the mos=

abused patterns, BTW), you can try this:

public static SingletonClass getInstance() {
    if (instance == null) {
       instance = new SingletonClass();
       ConfigFileReader config = new ConfigFileReader(instanc=

e);

       config.read();
    }
    return instance;

}

SingletonClass() now should do nothing, or at least only construction
related activities.

getInstance() will never return an uninitialized instance.

ConfigFileReader gets an explicit instance to read into. Much more
flexible for unit testing, etc...

In an ideal application, for every class that needed access to
SingletonClass, you would have a setSingletonInstance(...) method, and
use an injection container such as Guice or Spring (to name only two).

"If you absolutely *need* to use singleton (one of the most abused
patterns, BTW)"

I have my own opinions on this, but I'm curious - when *should* you
use a singleton pattern (in your opinion)? I'm not trying to start a
flame war, but, being a software engineer, I like seeing other
people's viewpoints on the matter.

Either way, I did get it to work. Thanks for the help.

Actually, the pattern that is abused is the "static" singleton. The
framework for your application should instantiate one instance and pass
it where it needs to go. This is appropriate for a lot of objects that
should be accessible "system wide". Dependency Injection is exclusive
with regards to Singletons, and I think a lot of people would be happier
if they mixed to two appropriately :-)

As far as appropriateness for static singletons, I can't think of any
OTTOMH.

java.lang.Runtime is a reasonable example of something that both is
and should remain a singleton: it's abstract, the concrete instance
represents the JVM in which the current code is running, and (absent
tools like Terracotta) code is only *ever* running in a single JVM at
a time. I would've said "standard output should be a singleton",
except that I've written code for Unix systems where there were
multiple handles that all referred to standard output, so I see no
reason to forbid it. :)

-o

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