Kotlin Singleton with Object Declaration

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Kotlin Singleton with Object Declaration

In object oriented programming, there is a common situation when you want a class to have only one instance. In Java, we usually implement using the Singleton Design Pattern: define a class with a private constructor and a static field holding the only existing instance of that class. This tutorial shows you a way to implement Singleton with Kotlin Object Declaration.

I. Technology

• Java 1.8
• Kotlin 1.1.2

  II. Overview

  Kotlin provides object declaration feature with keyword object.

We use object keyword in several cases, but they all have the same core idea:

• defines a class, and at the same time
• creates an instance (an object) of that class

Like a class, an object declaration can contain declarations of properties, methods...

object Singleton {

    init {
        ...
    }

    var a: Int = ...

    fun doWork() {
        ...
    }
}

But constructors are not allowed. Object declarations are created immediately at the point of definition, not through constructor. So defining a constructor in this case doesn’t make sense.

Object declarations can also inherit from class and interface.

You can call methods and access properties simply:

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Kotlin Singleton with Object Declaration