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Class: Pooled

Pooled is the base class for any object that needs to implement object pooling. This base class keeps track of all object pools through static global memory, providing generic methods for requesting objects from the pools, freeing memory up for the pools to use, and initializing the pools to a certain size. The pooled class also provides a required objectInPool variable to allow instances to be marked as available in the pool, used to avoid duplicating objects in the same pool (multiple free calls on the same object).

Hierarchy

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Constructors

Properties

Methods

Constructors

constructor

+ new Pooled(): Pooled

Returns: Pooled

Properties

objectInPool

objectInPool: boolean= false

objectInPool is true if an object is made available in the object pool. If it is false it is not currently available in the object pool. This is used to avoid adding the same object to the same object pool multiple times if there are successive calls to free the the same object.


pools

Protected Static pools: Map<string, [number, IPoolable[]]>

pools is the global, static mapping of string keys to object pools. An object pool contains two pieces of data, the maximum size of the pool (first value), and the objects that make up the pool as an array (second value).

Methods

free

Protected Staticfree(poolKey: string, obj: IPoolable): void

free is used to mark a provided object as free in the pool provided. This method can be called multiple times with the same object, it will only add one entry to the pool.

Parameters:

Name Type Description
poolKey string The key of the pool to add the object to.
obj IPoolable The object to add to the pool.

Returns: void


init

Protected Staticinit(poolKey: string, emptyGenerator: () => IPoolable, size: number): void

init is used to initialize an object pool to a certain size. This method takes a key of the pool to initialize, an 'empty generator' which is a function that should return an empty/blank instance of the object being pooled which can be overwritten at a later point, and the maximum size of the pool (which it will be initialized to at the start using the empty generator).

Parameters:

Name Type
poolKey string
emptyGenerator () => IPoolable
size number

Returns: void


new

Protected Staticnew(poolKey: *string*, type: (...args: *any*) => T, ...args: any): T

new is used to request a new object from the pool specified, if the pool is unavailable or empty it will use the type to provision a new object through a constructor. This is a generic method, it includes a cast to the generic type provided - this cast can fail if the objects returned from the pool are not the type expected.

Type parameters:

Name Type
T IPoolable

Parameters:

Name Type Description
poolKey string The key of the pool to retrieve from.
type (...args: any) => T The fallback constructor to use if the pool is not initialized/empty.
...args any The args to use when creating/recycling the object.

Returns: T