On Dec 31, 2:58 pm, "Dhanji R. Prasanna" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM, JN <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking seriously into the possibility of using guice for our > > project. However, I'm extremely reluctant to pepper our interfaces > > and implementation classes with guice injections (based on various > > principles and practical concerns, I don't find it a good idea). I'd > > like to use guice without using annotations, although I suspect it's > > not possible. > > Skimming the documentation, it seems like most of the annotations can > > be obviated by doing more work in the module. However, doing an > > injection (I'd prefer constructor injection) seems to *require* the > > @Inject annotation. Is there any way around this? > > Yes, you can use @Provides methods on your module or bind().toConstructor() > without any annotations at all.
Thanks for the quick reply. Does that bind to a no-arg constructor, or how do you specify which constructor to bind to? A pointer to docs or javadoc would be helpful. I tried to answer that question for myself, but couldn't find toConstructor() in the javadoc. I explored AbstractModule ->bind() -> to()... At this point, all I see is to(), toInstance(), toProvider(). > > > Are people happy with the annotations-mandatory approach? Is there no > > demand for alternate means of configuration? I'd rather just specify > > everything explicitly in the module, even if it's a little more > > verbose. > > Generally the objection is of the pedantic form, Thanks for that. ;) > very few of our users > actually experience problems with using annotations, and on the contrary > find them useful in self-documenting and error-checking. I won't open up that discussion here. :) Jim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-guice" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice?hl=en.
