Factory pattern in C#: How to ensure an object instance can only be created by a factory class?

Question

Recently I\'ve been thinking about securing some of my code. I\'m curious how one could make sure an object can never be created directly, but only via some method of a fact

Answer 1

So, it looks like what I want cannot be done in a "pure" way. It's always some kind of "call back" to the logic class.

Maybe I could do it in a simple way, just make a contructor method in the object class first call the logic class to check the input?

public MyBusinessObjectClass
{
    public string MyProperty { get; private set; }

    private MyBusinessObjectClass (string myProperty)
    {
        MyProperty  = myProperty;
    }

    pubilc static MyBusinessObjectClass CreateInstance (string myProperty)
    {
        if (MyBusinessLogicClass.ValidateBusinessObject (myProperty)) return new MyBusinessObjectClass (myProperty);

        return null;
    }
}

public MyBusinessLogicClass
{
    public static bool ValidateBusinessObject (string myProperty)
    {
        // Perform some check on myProperty

        return CheckResult;
    }
}

This way, the business object is not creatable directly and the public check method in business logic will do no harm either.