Hi,
I am currently trying to bind Provider<T> to some instance of
CustomProvider<T> (where T is a more complex, generic type).
But I get "Binding to Provider is not allowed" when I create the Injector.
Although my code is much more complex (I have a generic helper method
that can do the following for any T type, not just Icon as in the
example below), I think it boils down to the following:
binder().bind(new
TypeLiteral<Provider<ResourceConverter<Icon>>>(){}).toInstance(new
ConverterProvider<Icon>(Icon.class));
where:
class ConverterProvider<T> implements Provider<ResourceConverter<T>>
{
ConverterProvider(TypeLiteral<T> type) {...}
public ResourceConverter<T> get() {...}
}
I don't really understand why Guice doesn't allow binding to a Provider?
Actually I don't bind TO a provider, but I bind A provider TO an
instance of that type (ie Provider...)! That's not exactly the same!
Actually, the reason why I do that is that I don't want to make it
possible users of my library to directly inject ResourceConverter<T>
into a class, but exclusively Provider<ResourceConverter<T>>; isn't that
possible with Guice?
If not, that's not a real blocking problem, it would just make my API a
bit weaker than it has to (aand then I'll have to put more emphasis on
the javadoc;-))
Thanks in advance for any feedback
Jean-Francois
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
