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henrik
01/21/2022, 12:22 PMSay I have a class like this:
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class Foo(val bar: Bar, val baz: Baz = Baz("ding"))barbazbazt
Ties
01/21/2022, 12:34 PMJust out of interest, what is the usecase? In case spring does not have a Baz bean, use this default one instead? (within spring that would be solved with conditional bean loading)
and if you want it to be a property of the class but not being set by the constructor you can just create a separate property https://kotlinlang.org/docs/properties.html
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henrik
01/21/2022, 12:57 PMit's convenient to have all dependencies in the constructor when testing Foo
And Baz is maybe not available for autowiring now, but someone might add it later, thus braking Foo (or introducing interesting side effects). This exact thing happened in a project here earlier.
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Ties
01/21/2022, 1:00 PMSo it is a non-bean dependency, and you want to change it during testing? (if that is the case I think I would consider making it a bean)
Or you can give it as an argument to functions who actually need to use Baz
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henrik
01/21/2022, 1:04 PMSo it is a non-bean dependency, and you want to change it during testingYup. I was trying to avoid making it a bean, but it seems to be the only viable option. I was hoping for a
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Jacob
01/21/2022, 4:18 PMSounds like you might be able to achieve this with a testing only constructor and di constructor
Ie the di constructor delegates to the testing constructor and passes in the default arg
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