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gbronner
gbronner

Reputation: 1945

Getting a guice object at runtime with an annotation?

I have a provider:

@SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
@Provides
@Singleton
@OutboundBroker
public EventBroker outboundBrokerProvider()

At runtime, I want to get this one.

        EventBroker outbound=injector.getInstance(Key.get(EventBroker.class, Names.named("OutboundBroker")));

However, this code doesn't work -- the provider isn't named, but I can't figure out how to retrieve it using the annotation @OutboundBroker

Upvotes: 2

Views: 321

Answers (2)

NamshubWriter
NamshubWriter

Reputation: 24286

It's extremely rare to need to get more than one object from the Injector. If you use pure dependency-injection, your main() method (or your container) creates the injector and gets one object, and one or more methods on that object are called. That one object would be injected with what it needs.

So you can do this:

class EventService {
  private final EventBroker outboundEventBroker;

  @Inject
  private EventService(
      @OutboundBroker EventBroker outboundBroker) {
    this.outboundEventBroker = outboundBroker;
  }


  ...
}

As Jeff Bowman stated, this assumes that OutboundBroker is itself annotated with @BindingAnnotation.

Upvotes: 0

Tavian Barnes
Tavian Barnes

Reputation: 12922

Key.get(EventBroker.class, OutboundBroker.class)

Upvotes: 3

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