Question

In my senario, I have a global setting object, say GlobalSettings, it has a static property “Current” (singleton), and there should be only one GlobalSettings instance.

But…In my data model, there’s an entity “LocalizedContent”:

public class LocalizedContent {
     public string Title { get; set; }
     public string Content { get; set; }
     public string CultureName { get; set; }
}

In the constructor, I want to initialize the instance by setting CultureName to default culture of the system, and I can get the default culture name from GlobalSettings.Current.DefaultCultureName.

However, I don’t want to use the singleton property “GlobalSettings.Current” in LocalizedContent class, since it will result in strong-coupling. So my question is, where is the right place to set this default culture name?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Why not add a constructor to LocalizedContent that takes the DefaultCultureName as a parameter?

LocalizedContent can then be re-used without a dependency on GlobalSettings.