Comment #10 on issue 72 by nimbus4321: Injector does not respect constructor's private visibility http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/issues/detail?id=72
In order to ensure backwards compatibility with code developed using Guice 1, would it be possible to have a means of switching off this check ? i.e. So that the new behaviour would be the default in Guice 2, but could be disabled for maximum compatibility with code bases developed against Guice 1. Background to this request: I came across the new check when testing the codebase for the product I'm working on against guice-snapshot20081123. There are several public classes with private constructors in the codebase that are instantiated using Guice. So, this new check means that Guice 2 is not a "drop-in" replacement for Guice 1 in the codebase - i.e. to use Guice 2, the codebase would have to be changed so that the constructors are annotated with @Inject. While this change to the product codebase could be made, there is another issue for us. Guice is also used as part of an extension mechanism for the product, so that customers can extend and customize it to meet their own requirements. So, some customers also have public classes with private constructors that are instantiated via Guice 1. We would like to move the product on to Guice 2 in a forthcoming release in order to take advantage of some of the great new Guice 2 features. However, it will greatly complicate the product upgrade process if we have to ask our customers to make changes to their codebase (i.e. add the @Inject annotation to private constructors) in order to take the upgrade. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-guice-dev" 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-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
