Question

I am currently trying to implememnt a Singleton Class in order to store a ArrayCollection of items that I can then access and manipulate across the lifecycle of my app. I have created the below Singleton Class that is designed to hold the ArrayCollection information:

package valueObjects
{
    import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;  

    [Bindable]
    public class Model
    {
        private static var instance:Model = new Model();

        public var ids:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();

        public function Model()
        {
            if(instance)
            {
                trace("New instance cannot be created. Use Singleton.getInstance()");
            }
        }

        public static function getInstance():Model
        {
            return instance;
        }
    }
}

I have then created the following code on the Main Deafult page for my application so that the ArrayCollection is populated as soon as the app is initiated:

        import valueObjects.Model;          

        protected var models:Model = new Model();

                private function loop():void
        {
            var index:int;
            for( index = 0; index < compsCollection.length; index++ )
            {
                trace( "Element " + index + " is " +  compsCollection[index].comp_id );
                            models.ids.addItem(compsCollection[index].comp_id);
                trace(models.ids.length);
            }               
        }

The ArrayCollection in the Singleton Class is being populated as the trace statement that I have entered into the loop clearly shows the build of of data in the ArrayCollection. However then when I move to another view within the application I then try to access this ArrayCollection within the Singleton Class with the following code:

import valueObjects.Model;

protected var models:Model = Model.getInstance();
protected var test:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();

protected function view1_viewActivateHandler(event:ViewNavigatorEvent):void
            {

                var index:int;
                trace("Array Length =" + models.ids.length);
                for( index = 0; index < models.ids.length; index++ )
                {
                    trace( "Element " + index + " is " + models.ids[index].comp_id );
                    test.addItem(models.ids[index].comp_id);
                }   
                testbox.text = test.toString(); 
            }

Now the problem I am having is that when I try to access this ArrayCollection(ids) it appears to be empty for some reason. I have included a trace statement that also says that the length of the ArrayCollection is “0”. Can anyone please help??

Answer 1

try like this

public static function getInstance():Model
{
    if(instance == null)
      instance= new Model();

    return instance;
}

here no need of assigning to variable

protected var models:Model = Model.getInstance();

use directly like

Model.getInstance().ids = new ArrayCollection();

Try this,
this might be helpful to u.