Singletons In Swift

Question

The first time I learned how to Implement Singleton Pattern in Swift is in this Book Pro Design Patterns in Swift.

The way I started implementing the Singleton Pattern is in the example below:

class Singleton {

    class var sharedInstance: Singleton {
        struct Wrapper {
            static let singleton = Singleton()
        }
        return Wrapper.singleton
    }

    private init() {
    }

}

But then I found this implementation while reading about Cocoa Design Patterns

class Singleton {

    static let sharedInstance = Singleton()

    private init() { 
    }

}

So my question is, what's the difference between the two implementations ?

You'll find it all in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24024549/using-a-dispatch-once-singleton-model-in-swift. To make it short: The second implementation is the currently recommended one. The first implementation stems from Swift <= 1.1, where static class properties were not yet supported. — Martin R, Feb 20 '16 at 17:13

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '16 at 20:02

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Back in Swift 1 days, static let wasn't implemented yet. The workaround was to create a wrapper struct. With Swift 2, this is not needed anymore.

answered Apr 18 '16 at 20:02

Rudolf Adamkovič

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