Design Patterns - Generic Singleton Pattern
Originally published on my old blog at cumps.be on July 15, 2008.
A little follow-up from yesterday’s Singleton Pattern, where I asked for some help on how you would approach a generic singleton.
With the help of Andrew Stevenson and ExNihilo, we came up with the following Generic Singleton Pattern:
Using Reflection, the private constructor is called to create an instance of the class.
Whenever a Singleton is needed now, the only thing to do is to inherit from Singleton<T>, pass in the class itself as T, and make the constructor private.
I’ve updated yesterday’s solution to contain this new code as well; have a look.
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