If you have a reference to already instantiated object, can't you use Injector#injectMembers(Object)
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > UPDATE: > In the few days of waiting for my post to pass moderation, the > developer of the 3rd party library contacted me. Turns out there IS > actually a way to pass an already instantiated object for the GUI to > use and call. He updated his wiki to document how. This basically > solves my problem though I am still curious about the question itself. > > Thanks, > ~David > > > On Oct 31, 7:33 pm, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > Alright I have read through the Guice user-guides and I am using Guice > > on several projects now. I am still pretty new to Guice though. > > Currently I have run into a bit of a snag and I wanted some advice on > > how to proceed. I don't know how to solve the following issue except > > by using static factories (which I know is frowned upon). > > > > Lets say I have a service, 'MyService', which is bound to > > 'MyServiceImpl', is injected into multiple places in my project, and > > is a Singleton (it has state that all parts of the program must be > > aware of). So far so good. This works as expected. > > > > Now one of the places I need access to this service is a class call > > 'MyGuiScreenController' which implements a third party interface, > > 'ScreenController'. Now here is where things get interesting. The > > rest of my code never touches MyGuiScreenController. It is > > instantiated (using a default, no argument constructor) by a third > > party (GUI) library via reflection. I have no control over this > > process. It has an inherited method 'bind' which is called when the > > GUI is setup, and then any number of methods I define based on GUI > > events. > > > > Now as I said, I could probably get away with a static factory and > > call said factory inside the bind method to get access to 'MyService', > > but is this the only way? It might get especially ugly as I will > > probably have many similar classes to 'MyGuiScreenController', all > > needing certain other service classes. Will I need to make a static > > factory for each one of these? That seems like a bad solution, but > > the only one I can figure out at the moment. > > > > Thanks for any help and please ask any questions if I did not explain > > myself fully. > > > > ~David > > -- > 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]<google-guice%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-guice?hl=en. > > -- 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.
