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Java 9 Dependency Injection
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Java 9 Dependency Injection

by Nilang Patel, Krunal Patel
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
246 pages
6h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Constructor bindings

This kind of binding binds a type to a constructor. This specific case arises when the @Inject annotation can't be implemented to the target constructor. Possible reasons for this could be:

  • If we are using a third-party class
  • A couple of constructors taking part in dependency injection

To address such a problem, we have the toConstructor() binding in our module. Here, if the constructor cannot be found, module reflectively select our target constructor and handle the exception:

public class SampleModule extends AbstractModule {
  @Override 
  protected void configure() {
    try {
      bind(NotificationService.class).toConstructor(
          SMSService.class.getConstructor(SMSDatabaseConnection.class));
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { ...
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