How can I limit access to a particular class to one caller at a time in an ASMX web service?
- by MusiGenesis
I have a web service method in which I create a particular type of object, use it for a few seconds, and then dispose it. Because of problems arising from multiple threads creating and using instances of this class at the same time, I need to restrict the method so that only one caller at a time ever has one of these objects.
To do this, I am creating a private static object:
private static object _lock = new object();
... and then inside the web service method I do this around the critical code:
lock (_lock)
{
using (DangerousObject do = new DangerousObject())
{
do.MakeABigMess();
do.CleanItUp();
}
}
I'm not sure this is working, though. Do I have this right? Will this code ensure that only one instance of DangerousObject is instantiated and in use at a time? Or does each caller get their own copy of _lock, rendering my code here laughable?
