I haven’t looked much at Scopes, so I’ll have to c...

# kodein

[Joe]

I haven’t looked much at Scopes, so I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!

[streetsofboston]

You’re welcome. 🙂
Create an object that implements your custom Scope and use that for your dependency definitions. Then access that object to ‘clear it out’ when needed.

[streetsofboston]

(not sure if messing with a ‘mutable’ Scope is the official or desired way to do this, but it works for me)

[Joe]

Can you clarify “access the `object`“? Do you mean delete it?

[streetsofboston]

In your dependency definitions, use the myScope as the Scope for the dependencies you’d like to be able to throw away.

object myScope: Scope<SomeContext> { 
    override fun getRegistry(context: SomeContext): ScopeRegistry {
        ... 
    }

    fun clear() {
        ...
    }
}

And when you want to ‘throw it away’ call clear.

myScope.clear()

[Joe]

Ah okay, now I see. That looks like exactly what I want. Thanks!

[streetsofboston]

Note that you can also use a ConfigurableKodein and re-create your dependencies (that is what I use for running unit-tests).

Also, consider using plain `Scope`s or tags if you need to get a different dependency (singleton) given a different context of your app.

The hack of ‘clearing’ your Scope is just that, a hack… 🙂