yes if you’re accessing the property from a different class

interesting..

thanks, sorry for the noob questions

only ever done c# or javascript

unless you count Delphi as well back in the day simple smile

if i have a method that needs a

String

but after some null checking with the

?

that seems to return a

String?

so should I call

ToString()

to convert it?

this is very unlikely to be correct

That isn't a null check, that's a nullable string.

yes, so you need to check it for null

ah sorry missed that

note that we have the #C0B8MA7FA channel for basic questions

ah ok thanks

sorry

@salomonbrys: Kodein looks nice. Two questions: 1) do you support bindings named to annotations (not strings) and 2) do you support assisted injection?

@salomonbrys: Also, in the transitive example, I don’t understand why I need to explicitly bind <Dice> : Kodein should be able to create an instance of it without my help. This is a big plus of Guice where you don’t have to bind every single type you’re using explicitly

@cedric: 1) Tags can be anything, not just Strings. So you can do something like

bind<Type>(Annotated()) with whatever

. However kodein does not do reflection (as Mark pointed out, it's more of a dependency lookup library), so to retrieve the dependency, its a parameter :

val dep = kodein.instance(Annotated())

. Therefore, Annotated() should not be an annotation but a data class (to support hashcode & equals). 2) Factory bindings are typically for assisted injection.

@cedric: As for the transitive example, as I said, there are no reflection in Kodein.

annotations define very strict equals and hashcode contracts

i suspect they'll Just Work™

@jw: great to know, thanks 😉

Since

fun main()

must return

void

, how do I return an exit code to the shell?

I’d rather not do that since somebody might be calling me

e.g. I don’t want to exit the JVM of a server

I see

Should I file an issue?

not sure how that would be possible on JVM

i usually have an instance main and a static main

instance main returns a type of my choosing with error information