Hello! As discussed in a previous thread, I've created an issue for adding "boolean optional() default false" to @InjectComponent to complement @DisableStrictChecks.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/TAP5/issues/TAP5-2727 The ticket contains a patch with an attempt to implement the required behavior, plus some tests. If optional() == true, the InjectComponentWorker just ignores the UnknownValueException and the embedded component will be null. That was the easiest way to implement it. Another option would be creating a proxy in case of an optional and missing component, which reacts with an appropriate Exception if used. Or do you think that's overkill? Like @DisableStrictChecks, it's more of an advanced use case. Cheers, Ben
