Design patterns Tutorial => Static Factory Method C# (original) (raw)

Example

The static factory method is a variation of the factory method pattern. It is used to create objects without having to call the constructor yourself.

When to use the Static Factory Method

• if you want to give a meaningfull name to the method that generates your object.
• if you want to avoid overcomplex object creation see Tuple Msdn.
• if you want to limit the number of objects created (caching)
• if you want to return an object of any subtype of their return type.

There are some disadvantages like

• Classes without a public or protected constructor cannot be initialized in the static factory method.
• Static factory methods are like normal static methods, so they are not distinguishable from other static methods (this may vary from IDE to IDE)

Example

Pizza.cs

public class Pizza
{
    public int SizeDiameterCM
    {
        get;
        private set;
    }
         
    private Pizza()
    {
        SizeDiameterCM = 25;
    }

    public static Pizza GetPizza()
    {
        return new Pizza();
    }

    public static Pizza GetLargePizza()
    {
        return new Pizza()
        {
            SizeDiameterCM = 35
        };
    }

    public static Pizza GetSmallPizza()
    {
        return new Pizza()
        {
            SizeDiameterCM = 28
        };
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return String.Format("A Pizza with a diameter of {0} cm",SizeDiameterCM);
    }
}

Program.cs

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var pizzaNormal = Pizza.GetPizza();
        var pizzaLarge = Pizza.GetLargePizza();
        var pizzaSmall = Pizza.GetSmallPizza();


        String pizzaString = String.Format("{0} and {1} and {2}",pizzaSmall.ToString(), pizzaNormal.ToString(), pizzaLarge.ToString());
        Console.WriteLine(pizzaString);
    }
}

Output

A Pizza with a diameter of 28 cm and A Pizza with a diameter of 25 cm and A Pizza with a diameter of 35 cm