I worked out this process: http://software.danielwatrous.com/wicket-guice-including-unittests/
It enables unittests and may help you toward your goal. Daniel On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:14 PM, William Speirs <wspe...@apache.org> wrote: > I think I know the answer before I ask, but is there any way to do > constructor injection with Wicket? Say I have a web page and an email > service. I need the email service in the web page. Now everyone is > going to say, "Simply use field injection." That will work, but makes > unit testing a real pain because now I have to setup injection for my > unit test (or add additional methods to all of my pages so I can > manually set these field, or additional constructors that set these > fields). I should be able to unit test a class without needing > injection, but instead passing mocks through the constructor. > > I feel like this is impossible in Wicket currently because the > DefaultPageFactory is using reflection to create the page instances > instead of the injector (Guice in my case). It would be easy enough to > get the injector and call getInstance() to obtain a page instance. The > problem is when you need to pass in parameters. There is no concept of > parameters for a page other than what is passed via the constructor, > so you cannot call something like setPageParameters because it doesn't > exist. If using Guice, you could create an @Assisted injection, and > have a factory. > > Has anyone tried creating this type of IPageFactory -- a > GuicePageFactory? What kind of pitfalls would exist if I attempted > such a thing? Am I being stupid and missing something? Thoughts? > > Thanks... > > Bill- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
