Safe way to create singleton with init method in Objective-C

Question

I would like to take the GCD approach of using shared instances to the next step so I created the following code:

@implementation MyClass

static id sharedIn         


        

Answer 1

Instead of transparently redirecting calls to init to the singleton implementation which can cause very confusing behaviour for the users of your SDK, I suggest not allowing to call init at all:

+ (instancetype)sharedInstance {
    static dispatch_once_t once;
    dispatch_once(&once, ^{
        sharedInstance = [[self alloc] initPrivate];
    });
    return sharedInstance;
}

- (instancetype)init {
    @throw [NSException exceptionWithName:NSInternalInconsistencyException reason:@"..." userInfo:nil];
}

- (instancetype)initPrivate {
    if (self = [super init]) {
        ...
    }
    return self;
}