Private class initializers

Chriscbr commented 11 months ago

Feature Spec

Starting in Wing 0.x, class initializers are now private by default, unless specified public using the pub keyword. Previous to this change, it was not possible to define private constructors in Wing.

Here's an example of how private constructors can be used to implement the singleton design pattern:

bring "constructs" as constructs;

class MySingleton {
  pub value: num;
  pub static getInstance(scope: constructs.Construct): MySingleton {
    return new MySingleton() in scope;
  }

  // like all methods, `init` is private by default
  new() {
    // ... perform some one-time calculation maybe
    this.value = 42;
  }
}

class MyService {
  pub new() {
    let s = new MySingleton(); // this should be an error (since `init` is private)
    let s2 = MySingleton.getInstance(this);
    assert(s2.value == 42);
  }
}

new MyService();

Use Cases

There are several common use cases for private constructors:

Classes with only static members or methods
For modeling singleton classes / factory classes
To prevent subclassing

Implementation Notes

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Component

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eladb commented 11 months ago

Is this proposing that by default it won't be possible to initialize objects from a class?

If so, in the above example it shouldn't be possible to instantiate MyService because its init is private, no?

Chriscbr commented 11 months ago

@eladb Fixed

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