unity3d Singletons in Unity Advanced Unity Singleton

Example

This example combines multiple variants of MonoBehaviour singletons found on the internet into one and let you change its behavior depending on global static fields.

This example was tested using Unity 5. To use this singleton, all you need to do is extend it as follows: public class MySingleton : Singleton<MySingleton> {}. You may also need to override AwakeSingleton to use it instead of usual Awake. For further tweaking, change default values of static fields as described below.

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1. This implementation makes use of DisallowMultipleComponent attribute to keep one instance per GameObject.
2. This class is abstract and can only be extended. It also contains one virtual method AwakeSingleton that needs to be overridden instead of implementing normal Awake.
3. This implementation is thread safe.
4. This singleton is optimized. By using instantiated flag instead of instance null check we avoid the overhead that comes with Unity's implementation of == operator. (Read more)
5. This implementation does not allow any calls to the singleton instance when it's about to get destroyed by Unity.
6. This singleton comes with the following options:

• FindInactive: whether to look for other instances of components of same type attached to inactive GameObject.
• Persist: whether to keep component alive between scenes.
• DestroyOthers: whether to destroy any other components of same type and keep only one.
• Lazy: whether to set singleton instance "on the fly" (in Awake) or only "on demand" (when getter is called).

using UnityEngine;

[DisallowMultipleComponent]
public abstract class Singleton<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : Singleton<T>
{
    private static volatile T instance;
    // thread safety
    private static object _lock = new object();
    public static bool FindInactive = true;
    // Whether or not this object should persist when loading new scenes. Should be set in Init().
    public static bool Persist;
    // Whether or not destory other singleton instances if any. Should be set in Init().
    public static bool DestroyOthers = true;
    // instead of heavy comparision (instance != null)
    // http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/16/custom-operator-should-we-keep-it/
    private static bool instantiated;

    private static bool applicationIsQuitting;

    public static bool Lazy;

    public static T Instance
    {
        get
        {
            if (applicationIsQuitting)
            {
                Debug.LogWarningFormat("[Singleton] Instance '{0}' already destroyed on application quit. Won't create again - returning null.", typeof(T));
                return null;
            }
            lock (_lock)
            {
                if (!instantiated)
                {
                    Object[] objects;
                    if (FindInactive) { objects = Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll(typeof(T)); }
                    else { objects = FindObjectsOfType(typeof(T)); }
                    if (objects == null || objects.Length < 1)
                    {
                        GameObject singleton = new GameObject();
                        singleton.name = string.Format("{0} [Singleton]", typeof(T));
                        Instance = singleton.AddComponent<T>();
                        Debug.LogWarningFormat("[Singleton] An Instance of '{0}' is needed in the scene, so '{1}' was created{2}", typeof(T), singleton.name, Persist ? " with DontDestoryOnLoad." : ".");
                    }
                    else if (objects.Length >= 1)
                    {
                        Instance = objects[0] as T;
                        if (objects.Length > 1)
                        {
                            Debug.LogWarningFormat("[Singleton] {0} instances of '{1}'!", objects.Length, typeof(T));
                            if (DestroyOthers)
                            {
                                for (int i = 1; i < objects.Length; i++)
                                {
                                    Debug.LogWarningFormat("[Singleton] Deleting extra '{0}' instance attached to '{1}'", typeof(T), objects[i].name);
                                    Destroy(objects[i]);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                        return instance;
                    }
                }
                return instance;
            }
        }
        protected set
        {
            instance = value;
            instantiated = true;
            instance.AwakeSingleton();
            if (Persist) { DontDestroyOnLoad(instance.gameObject); }
        }
    }

    // if Lazy = false and gameObject is active this will set instance
    // unless instance was called by another Awake method
    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Lazy) { return; }
        lock (_lock)
        {
            if (!instantiated)
            {
                Instance = this as T;
            }
            else if (DestroyOthers && Instance.GetInstanceID() != GetInstanceID())
            {
                Debug.LogWarningFormat("[Singleton] Deleting extra '{0}' instance attached to '{1}'", typeof(T), name);
                Destroy(this);
            }
        }
    }
    
    // this might be called for inactive singletons before Awake if FindInactive = true
    protected virtual void AwakeSingleton() {}

    protected virtual void OnDestroy()
    {
        applicationIsQuitting = true;
        instantiated = false;
    }
}