Class/Static Constants in Delphi

Question

In Delphi, I want to be able to create an private object that\'s associated with a class, and access it from all instances of that class. In Java, I\'d use:

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Answer 1

The keywords you are looking for are "class var" - this starts a block of class variables in your class declaration. You need to end the block with "var" if you wish to include other fields after it (otherwise the block may be ended by a "private", "public", "procedure" etc specifier). Eg

(Edit: I re-read the question and moved reference count into TMyClass - as you may not be able to edit the TMySharedObjectClass class you want to share, if it comes from someone else's library)

  TMyClass = class(TObject)
  strict private
    class var
      FMySharedObjectRefCount: integer;
      FMySharedObject: TMySharedObjectClass;
    var
    FOtherNonClassField1: integer;
    function GetMySharedObject: TMySharedObjectClass;
  public
    constructor Create;
    destructor Destroy; override;
    property MySharedObject: TMySharedObjectClass read GetMySharedObject;
  end;


{ TMyClass }
constructor TMyClass.Create;
begin
  if not Assigned(FMySharedObject) then
    FMySharedObject := TMySharedObjectClass.Create;
  Inc(FMySharedObjectRefCount);
end;

destructor TMyClass.Destroy;
begin
  Dec(FMySharedObjectRefCount);
  if (FMySharedObjectRefCount < 1) then
    FreeAndNil(FMySharedObject);

  inherited;
end;

function TMyClass.GetMySharedObject: TMySharedObjectClass;
begin
  Result := FMySharedObject;
end;

Please note the above is not thread-safe, and there may be better ways of reference-counting (such as using Interfaces), but this is a simple example which should get you started. Note the TMySharedObjectClass can be replaced by TLogLogger or whatever you like.