Re: IoC, DI, and a mess...

From:
Piotr Kobzda <pikob@gazeta.pl>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:36:41 +0100
Message-ID:
<fo8sla$r0v$1@inews.gazeta.pl>
Daniel Pitts wrote:

Now, the real trick is... The Computer has an InterruptTable, PortTable,
and InstructionTable instance, each of which have basically a
Map<Integer, Interrupt>, Map<Integer, Port>, etc... Is there a way with
Guice to set up that mapping? There is quite a bit of complex wiring in
that part of it too.


I think you can achieve this with a binding to a custom provider of each
map type (possibly additionally annotatedWith() in a case of mapping of
the same map types). Now you'll need a Module implementation for at
least a maps mappings, for example:

   binder.bind(new TypeLiteral<Map<Integer, Port>>() {})
     .toProvider(new Provider<Map<Integer,Port>>() {
       @Inject final Provider<Port> portProvider = null;

       public Map<Integer, Port> get() {
         Map<Integer, Port> map = new HashMap<Integer, Port>();
         // initialize a map... e.g.
         for(int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
           map.put(i, portProvider.get());
         }
         return map;
       }
     });
   // and similar for other maps...

piotr

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