dice 1.3.0

Lightweight dependency injection framework for Dart.

Dice

Lightweight dependency injection framework for Dart.

Dice is a simple dependency injection framework. In dice you create Module instance and bind types/classes to instances. You then pass the this module to an Injector which looks for @inject annotations and resolves them to the values bound in your module.

Dependency Injection

In Dice you can use the @inject annotation to mark values for injection in the following way:

• Injection of public and private fields (object/instance variables)

	class MyOtherClass {
    	@inject
      	SomeClass field;
      	@inject
      	SomeOtherClass _privateField;
   	}

• Injection of constructor parameters

	class MyClass {
 		@inject
 		MyClass(this.field);
 		
 		MyOtherClass field;
 	}

• Injection of public and private setters

	class SomeClass {
      	@inject
      	set value(SomeOtherClass val) => _privateValue = val;
      	
      	@inject
      	set _value(SomeOtherClass val) => _anotherPrivateValue = val;

      	SomeOtherClass _privateValue, _anotherPrivateValue;
	}

Named injections are not supported yet but we are working on fixing this.

Quick Guide

1. Add the folowing to your pubspec.yaml and run pub install

    dependencies:
      dice: any

2. Create some classes and interfaces to inject

	class BillingServiceImpl implements BillingService {
	  @Inject
	  CreditProcessor _processor;
	  
	  Receipt chargeOrder(Order order, CreditCard creditCard) {
	    if(!_processor.validate(creditCard)) {
	      throw new ArgumentError("payment method not accepted");
	    }
	    // :
	  }
	}

3. Register the type/class bindings in a module

	class ExampleModule extends Module {
	  configure() {
	    // bind CreditProcessor to a singleton
	    bind(CreditProcessor).toInstance(new CreditProcessorImpl());
	    // bind BillingService to a prototype
	    bind(BillingService).toType(BillingServiceImpl);
	  }
	}

4. Run it

    import "package:dice/dice.dart";
	main() {
	  	var injector = new Injector(new ExampleModule());
	  	var billingService = injector.getInstance(BillingService);
	  	var creditCard = new CreditCard("VISA");
	  	var order = new Order("Dart: Up and Running");
	  	billingService.chargeOrder(order, creditCard);
	}

for more information see the example application here.