Hi folks, It appears that the “createOnStart” attr...

# koin

[Benoît Liessens]

Hi folks,
It appears that the “createOnStart” attribute of this Koin annotation @Singleton(createdAtStart = true) doesn’t do what I expect (eagerly create the class instance) unless I call createEagerInstances() like such:

koin {
        modules(TheModule().module)
        createEagerInstances()
    }

Is that expected? Why have 2 distinct names (createAtStart and Eager) and 2 requirements for a single effect?
Thanks

[arnaud.giuliani]

do you use koinApplication or startKoin to start Koin?

[Benoît Liessens]

Neither of both.
I have a KTor application in which I install Koin in the main KTor module as such:

fun Application.mainModule() {
    install(Koin) 
}

And in (various) other KTor modules I start a koin context as follows:

fun Application.featureModule() {
    koin {
        modules(ModuleA().module, ModuleB().module)
    }
}