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Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

November 09 2016 21:13 GMT

#15901

oh yeah I didn't even notice it actually does have the object as the return type
ok so bounded type parameter, i'll look at that up

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

November 09 2016 21:20 GMT

#15902

A singleton is a glorified static variable. Static variables are usually bad. Sometimes a singleton is a static constant. That's better, but probably still a pointless use of a pattern.

Don't use singletons just because you only need a single instance of that class. You can consider using them if it is absolutely critical that there never is more than one instance of that class. And even then there might be better alternatives. Singleton is taught way too carelessly and as a result many people think it's a good pattern when it really is not (most of the time). There probably also is a historic reason to the prominence of the pattern, because it allowed people who came from C to use static variables in the then new C++ while still pretending that they have successfully adopted OPP principles.

The pattern has very real drawbacks (threading issues, hard to get away from if needed) that might not be apparent at the moment but often come back to haunt you.

RoomOfMush

1296 Posts

November 09 2016 21:51 GMT

#15903

There are a rare few good uses for the singleton pattern but none of them make much sense for regular software developement. I recently started a course on Operating System Programming and using singletons there, for example for driver controllers, etc, can make a lot of sense. When you are working with memory mapped external devices you dont want two instances of your controller messing each other up.

There is no build-in support for singletons in the java language. You usually use Singletons in java by either defining a "public static final" member variable in some kind of class or by using a "public static" method which will (lazy) initialize a "private static final" member variable and return it.
Example:

public class BigBadController {
	
	private static BigBadController instance;
	
	public static BigBadController getInstance() {
		if (instance == null) {
			instance = new BigBadController();
		}
		return instance;
	}
	
	private BigBadController() {
		// do stuff
	}
	
}

or if you have a multithreaded application:

public class BigBadController {
	
	private static BigBadController instance;
	private static final ReentrantLock lock = new ReentrantLock();
	
	public static BigBadController getInstance() {
		try {
			lock.lock();
			if (instance == null) {
				instance = new BigBadController();
			}
		} finally {
			lock.unlock();
		}
		return instance;
	}
	
	private BigBadController() {
		// do stuff
	}
	
}

AKnopf

Germany259 Posts

November 09 2016 23:09 GMT

#15904

Or you use java enterprise edition and inject a singleton instance. This way you can also implement against an interface instead of the concrete class

Manit0u

Poland17715 Posts

November 10 2016 03:52 GMT

#15905

Neshapotamus

United States163 Posts

November 10 2016 04:30 GMT

#15906

On November 10 2016 12:52 Manit0u wrote:
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Dependency Injection alone is great. I use it for unit testing and such.

However, as soon as you introduce dependency injection, you will almost certainly see it with coupled with "inversion of control".

To implement inversion of control, you will start using a container.

Containers solve dependency injection but introduce object lifetime management problems.

In a typed language, you will trade compile time errors for runtime errors. Why bother using a typed language?

You API design is going to down the shitter.

Eventually, your code it going to be unmanageable because your API is so fucked.
ex: A -> B -> C -> D .... -> Z
People stop caring about API design because ill let my container figure out how to resolve dependencies instead of making the api better.

I don't have a solution to this, but I have seen this happen way too many times. It makes we wonder if dependency injection is the answer. Ultimately, dependency injection is just a glorified term for passing a parameter to a function.

I think functional programming is the answer as this is what functional programming solves inherently in the language.

phar

United States1080 Posts

November 10 2016 07:00 GMT

#15907

There exists also the concept of using dependency injection to inject... a singleton.

e.g. https://google.github.io/guice/api-docs/latest/javadoc/index.html?com/google/inject/Singleton.html

Manit0u

Poland17715 Posts

November 10 2016 07:07 GMT

#15908

On November 10 2016 16:00 phar wrote:
There exists also the concept of using dependency injection to inject... a singleton.

e.g. https://google.github.io/guice/api-docs/latest/javadoc/index.html?com/google/inject/Singleton.html

This reminds me of the good old AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

Convenient proxy factory bean superclass for proxy factory beans that create only singletons.

Taken from "Everything wrong with Java in a single class."

Djagulingu

Germany3605 Posts

November 10 2016 07:32 GMT

#15909

On November 10 2016 16:07 Manit0u wrote:

Show nested quote +

This reminds me of the good old AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean

Show nested quote +

Taken from "Everything wrong with Java in a single class."

Is this shit for real or did Spring guys create this shit just for fun and games and shit

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

November 10 2016 07:41 GMT

#15910

On November 10 2016 16:32 Djagulingu wrote:

Show nested quote +

Is this shit for real or did Spring guys create this shit just for fun and games and shit

Oh it's for real.

I have many more doubts about InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState (from com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.State).

emperorchampion

Canada9496 Posts

November 10 2016 12:44 GMT

#15911

On November 10 2016 16:41 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

Show nested quote +

Oh it's for real.

I have many more doubts about InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState (from com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.State).

rofl

Djagulingu

Germany3605 Posts

November 10 2016 12:49 GMT

#15912

On November 10 2016 16:41 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

Show nested quote +

Oh it's for real.

I have many more doubts about InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState (from com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.State).

http://www.javafind.net/gate.jsp?q=/library/36/java6_full_apidocs/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/nimbus/package-tree.html

It's the entire fucking package :D

RoomOfMush

1296 Posts

November 10 2016 14:07 GMT

#15913

On November 10 2016 21:49 Djagulingu wrote:

Show nested quote +

http://www.javafind.net/gate.jsp?q=/library/36/java6_full_apidocs/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/nimbus/package-tree.html

It's the entire fucking package :D

As far as I know these are auto-generated. No reason to argue about the readability of auto-generated code.

Acrofales

Spain18255 Posts

November 10 2016 14:17 GMT

#15914

On November 10 2016 16:41 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

Show nested quote +

Oh it's for real.

I have many more doubts about InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState (from com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.State).

Well, that's just a naming convention gone horribly wrong. I have no idea what the class is supposed to do, but it seems like something you might want to do. The other one... why in the holy hell would anybody create something like that? Just click on it. And then click through to the superclasses and things; there's plenty of goodness there. But before you click, ask yourself one simple question: what does a factory to create singletons do?

Manit0u

Poland17715 Posts

November 10 2016 14:36 GMT

#15915

http://evilbydesign.info/

Good read for anyone.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

November 11 2016 01:19 GMT

#15916

it's all coming together..

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

November 11 2016 01:25 GMT

#15917

For polymorphism you just need to declare everything as a Tree. The Tree class is your interface or contract of all the methods that your subclasses will implement. Your Tree object knows if its a NonEmptyTree or an EmptyTree and will use the appropriate method due to polymorphism so you don't have to cast or check which class it is.

On November 11 2016 10:19 travis wrote:
For example an insert method

inserting into an empty tree is easy. just return a nonemptytree with the key and value.
inserting into the nonempty tree, I use recursion to check for duplicate key, if i hit a duplicate i replace the value. using compareTo I move left/right down the tree appropriately until.... i hit a leaf. but how the fuck will I know when I hit a leaf? What does polymorphism have to do with any of this?

You're going to have an insert method for the NonEmptyTree class and a different method implementation for the EmptyTree class. Polymorphism as described above will determine which method will be executed. You don't actually know when you hit a leaf. The code does though which is the point of polymorphism.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

November 11 2016 01:29 GMT

#15918

OH, so the way I use my methods is by using my "right" and "left" tree members? Since they are either nonemptytree OR emptytree(and they know)?

Blitzkrieg0

United States13132 Posts

November 11 2016 01:37 GMT

#15919

On November 11 2016 10:29 travis wrote:
OH, so the way I use my methods is by using my "right" and "left" tree members? Since they are either nonemptytree OR emptytree?

I'll try to go through an example so it's clear...

Lets say I have a Tree structure like the following where E signifies an EmptyTree and the fourth level is all EmptyTree where I was too lazy to draw the rest of tree:

 root                     8
                         / \
                      6        14
                     /  \     /  \
                    3   E    E   19

So I'm going to insert a new Tree into my structure which has the value 12. My insertion method will be called on the root. This is a NonEmptyTree so we'll be using that insertion method. This method determines if it go to the left or right child based on a simple comparison. 12 is greater than 8 so we'll call the insertion method on the right. Again we've hit a NonEmptyTree so the same thing happens. This time 12 is less than 14 so we'll call the insertion method on the left. Now we've hit an EmptyTree so a different method will be executed. This method is going to replace that node with a NonEmptyTree with the value 12.

Because of polymorphism, the code knows which method to execute and we don't actually know or care.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

November 11 2016 01:40 GMT

#15920

Okay I completely understand, that is awesome and makes sense. Thank you.

Suddenly I don't think this design is so annoying.

(it also means this project is way way easier than I thought)

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