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user3815954
user3815954

Reputation:

How to prevent other classes to create instance of one class?

I have case which consists of three classes namely SourceFactory, Source, and SourceTypeI. I want to create instance of SourceTypeI only in SourceFactory. In other words, other than SourceFactory, no class can create instance of SourceTypeI. How can I prevent other classes can create SourceTypeI?

Expected usage;

  SourceFactory sF = new SourceFactory();
  Source source = sF.createSource();

  // from there, I should reach methods of SourceTypeI via source
  source.whoIs();

Classes

  |-------------|           |-----------------------|
  |SourceTypeI  |           |SourceFactory          |
  |-------------|           |-----------------------|
  |+whoIs():void|           |+createSource():Source |
  |             |           |                       |
  |-------------|           |-----------------------|

  |-----------------------------|
  |    Source                   | <- Source cannot be instantiated, it is used just a 
  |-----------------------------|    for referencing instance of SourceTypeI 
  |                             |
  |-----------------------------|

Upvotes: 4

Views: 626

Answers (2)

laune
laune

Reputation: 31290

Sorry for changing the names.

public interface Restricted { // Source
    public int getX();
}

public class Restrict {  // SourceFactory
    private class RestrictedImpl implements Restricted {
        public int getX(){ return 42; }
    }

    public Restricted createRestricted(){
        return new RestrictedImpl();
    }
}

Restrict restrict = new Restrict();
Restricted restricted1 = restrict.createRestricted();

Upvotes: 1

Elliott Frisch
Elliott Frisch

Reputation: 201439

If I understand your question, you can put SourceFactory and SourceTypeI in the same package. Then make SourceTypeI final. Next give SourceTypeI package level (default) constructors.

SourceTypeI() { // <-- not public, not private, not protected.
  super();
}

Then don't put "any other class(es)" in that package.

Upvotes: 1

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