Right now I have: ```val kodein = Kodein.direct { ...

# ktor

[dave08]

Right now I have:

val kodein = Kodein.direct {
     .....
}

fun Routing.someController(
		someRepository: SomeRepository
) { ... }

fun Application.module() {
      routing {
        someController(kodein.instance())
    }
}

But I want to be able to access the kodein instance inside the Application.module() in a way that I can replace it in my tests... @Deactivated User?

[Deactivated User]

https://github.com/ktorio/ktor-samples/blob/master/feature/async/src/AsyncApplication.kt

[Deactivated User]

The idea is that your module, or either has @JvmOverloads or calls to another function receiving the dependencies (in your case the kodein instance), and then call that method in the tests

[dave08]

It might be nice to add that to the testing docs... it took a while till I found the sample. I think using DIs is a common pattern, and knowing how to apply them in Ktor would be nice. Also, I prefer injecting only the necessary things into the particular route functions (which I called controllers) and not pass Kodein around everywhere... I feel it helps alot in decoupling which might also be nice to integrate into the Kodein sample... but in the end that sample saved me thanks 🙂

[bdawg.io]

Ktor doesn't prevent you from doing regular OOP

[dave08]

Right, but it complicates things a bit, I started with Controllers that were classes, but found myself writing a whole layer to duplicate existing functionality... that's why Ktor isn't Spring, it's a DSL based framework @bdawg.io 😉

[bdawg.io]

I'll grab a gist of what I really meant by my comment when I get to work haha