I have a problem very similar (but not quite the same) as serialization of
singletons...e.g.
with a singleton, you serialise it, deserialise it, and now effectively
have a clone of the original.....well documented and I know how to get
around it (even if I don't understand exactly the dot net serialisation
mechanism).
My problem is similar, I have a set of objects that are created via a
factory and are unique for their specific state.....so for example if the
class was
class Person
{
public Person(string name);
}
class PersonFactory
{
IDictionary<string,Person> uniquePeople = ...bla bla
Person GetPerson(string name)
{
if (!uniquePeople.ContainsKey(name))
{
uniquePeople.Add(name, new Person(name));
}
return uniquePeople[name];
}
}
The examples of how to handle singletons don't explain how to handle
state......i.e. as it's a singleton, the state is the state of the
singleton currently in memory.
Can you help?
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