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
