Loading data from JSON file for one time

Question

I have JSON file which has some hundereds of rows stored like below..

[
  {
    "Id": "1",
    "Name": "A"
  },
  {
    "Id": "1",
    "Name": "A"
  }
]

I am trying to load this into collection of a class. This data is static and wont change, so I need to load this only once.

I have created a class and loading this in private constructor and loading into collection that I have in the class.

    public sealed class JsonLoader : IJsonloader
    {
        private readonly IEnumerable<Product> products = new List<Product>();

        private JsonLoader()
        {
            using (var r = new StreamReader("data.json"))
            {
                var json = r.ReadToEnd();
                products = //deserialse the json here 
            }
        }

        public static IEnumerable<Product> Products => this.products;
    }

Implement singleton using structure map singleton option. I want to know if my way of implementation is correct or if this can improved any further?

or Any other best way to do it? any help much appreciated :)

Answer 1

Make your loader static and put your load function in the static constructor. Then when the static constructor is called the list will be loaded and essentially cached in the static list until the application is unloaded. This will ensure your data is loaded once since static constructors are thread safe.

For testing proposes you could put an interface that wraps the static loader to mock the list of products if needed.