Is there anyway in spring + kotlin do to a mixed c...

# spring

[gotoOla]

Is there anyway in spring + kotlin do to a mixed constructor where you have e.g.

@Service
class MyClass(
   myService: MyService, // autowired
   helper: Helper = Helper("defaultValue") // just get default value but somebody could override this in e.g. tests
)

?

[Nick Howes]

Usually when we want to autowire from the context but override some beans we define a @Configuration as an inner class of the test class to override beans with test versions, which is supported by Spring TestContext. If it's Spring Boot there is also @TestConfiguration which is an alternative way to do it.

This is all standard Spring, nothing Kotlin specific.

[Tobias Berger]

alternatively, you could also just create a secondary constructor with just one parameter and the @Autowired annotation

[Klitos Kyriacou]

When I try this (as in the OP's example code), it works. IntelliJ gives an error saying the default argument can't be autowired, but if I just ignore the error, nothing bad seems to happen. The application runs as expected, and the unit tests run fine. It probably isn't recommended though.