How do you build a Singleton in Dart?
Here is a comparison of several different ways to create a singleton in Dart.
1. Factory constructor
class SingletonOne {
SingletonOne._privateConstructor();
static final SingletonOne _instance = SingletonOne._privateConstructor();
factory SingletonOne() {
return _instance;
}
}
2. Static field with getter
class SingletonTwo {
SingletonTwo._privateConstructor();
static final SingletonTwo _instance = SingletonTwo._privateConstructor();
static SingletonTwo get instance => _instance;
}
3. Static field
class SingletonThree {
SingletonThree._privateConstructor();
static final SingletonThree instance = SingletonThree._privateConstructor();
}
How to instantiate
The above singletons are instantiated like this:
SingletonOne one = SingletonOne();
SingletonTwo two = SingletonTwo.instance;
SingletonThree three = SingletonThree.instance;
Note:
I originally asked this as a question, but discovered that all of the methods above are valid and the choice largely depends on personal preference.
Thanks to Dart's factory constructors, it's easy to build a singleton:
class Singleton {
static final Singleton _singleton = Singleton._internal();
factory Singleton() {
return _singleton;
}
Singleton._internal();
}
You can construct it like this
main() {
var s1 = Singleton();
var s2 = Singleton();
print(identical(s1, s2)); // true
print(s1 == s2); // true
}