Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns

5 DI anti-patterns

In this chapter

• Creating tightly coupled code with Control Freak
• Requesting a class’s Dependencies with a Service Locator
• Making a Volatile Dependency globally available with Ambient Context
• Forcing a particular constructor signature with Constrained Construction

Many dishes require food to be cooked in a pan with oil. If you’re not experienced with the recipe at hand, you might start heating the oil, and then turn your back to read the recipe. But once you’re done cutting the vegetables, the oil is smoking. You might think that the smoking oil means the pan is hot and ready for cooking. This is a common misconception with inexperienced cooks. When oils start to smoke, they also start to break down. This is called their ...