Is it an anti-pattern to have the following code?
I want to have the singleton (ClassB) as a variable so that I have some sort of dependency injection while still using a singleton. But I have been hinted that without having mySingleton as weak I could have memory leaks. But I cannot think of any such scenario...
class ClassA {
var mySingleton: ClassB? = ClassB.shared
deinit {
print("deinit A")
}
}
class ClassB {
static let shared = ClassB()
deinit {
print("deinit B")
}
}
var a1: ClassA? = ClassA()
var b1: ClassB? = ClassB()
a1?.mySingleton = b1
a1 = nil
b1 = nil
EDIT: made improvements to the code although they irrelevant to the question which is if it is an anti-pattern to assign a singleton to a variable and specifically it if can cause memory leaks