On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, william ross wrote:
> I did have it set up that way at one point. it worked quite nicely as
> long as I made the singleton in a subclass of the main Factory (which
> might be shared by several applications with different configurations).
> i gave up on it in the end because it seemed a bit overheated, but if
> you approve, i shall reconsider.
I'm not quite following you. Overheated?
> so, rehearsing: all it should take is a Factory::Subclass->new(config
> blah) in the startup script and a Factory::Subclass->instance() in the
> handler? it does sound good if you put it like that.
>
> incidentally I made the singleton like this (yes, more poop):
>
> use base qw (Class::DBI::Factory Class::Singleton);
> ...
> sub _new_instance { shift->new(@_) }
>
> but it felt rather naughty to subclass the private _new_instance. if
> anyone knows a better way, I'd be very glad to hear it.
Check out Class::Singleton.
-dave
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