/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright: 2010-2021, imec Vision Lab, University of Antwerp 2014-2021, CWI, Amsterdam Contact: astra@astra-toolbox.com Website: http://www.astra-toolbox.com/ This file is part of the ASTRA Toolbox. The ASTRA Toolbox is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The ASTRA Toolbox is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the ASTRA Toolbox. If not, see . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef _INC_ASTRA_SINGLETON #define _INC_ASTRA_SINGLETON #include #ifndef _MSC_VER #include #endif namespace astra { /** * This singleton interface class ensures that any of its children can be instatiated only once. This is used by the ObjectFactories. **/ template class Singleton { public: // constructor Singleton() { } // destructor virtual ~Singleton() { assert(m_singleton); m_singleton = 0; } static void construct(); // get singleton static T& getSingleton() { if (!m_singleton) construct(); return *m_singleton; } static T* getSingletonPtr() { if (!m_singleton) construct(); return m_singleton; } private: // the singleton static T* m_singleton; }; // We specifically avoid defining construct() in the header. // That way, the call to new is always executed by code inside libastra. // This avoids the situation where a singleton gets created by a copy // of the constructor linked into an object file outside of libastra, such // as a .mex file, which would then also cause the vtable to be outside of // libastra. This situation would cause issues when .mex files are unloaded. #define DEFINE_SINGLETON(T) \ template<> T* Singleton::m_singleton = 0; \ template<> void Singleton::construct() { assert(!m_singleton); m_singleton = new T(); } // This is a hack to support statements like // DEFINE_SINGLETON2(CTemplatedClass); #define DEFINE_SINGLETON2(A,B) \ template<> A,B* Singleton::m_singleton = 0; \ template<> void Singleton::construct() { assert(!m_singleton); m_singleton = new A,B(); } } // end namespace #endif