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is there an alternative way to support spring constructor injection than <https://github.com/kotlintest/kotlintest/blob/master/doc/extensions.md#constructor-injection> ?

The problem I am facing is that I have a class that works with `org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher` and I cannot unit test it. What I mean is, if I write a test like

```
class SomeTest(
  private val applicationEventPublisher: ApplicationEventPublisher = mockk(relaxed = true),
  private val myClass: MyClass(applicationEventPublisher)) : StringSpec() {...}
```

`applicationEventPublisher` visible to the test is not the mocked one but the one instantiated from `ProjectConfig`.

A workaround is to have

```
class SomeTest : StringSpec() {
  private val applicationEventPublisher: ApplicationEventPublisher = mockk(relaxed = true),
  private val myClass: MyClass(applicationEventPublisher)
...
}
```

so actually not a big deal

also, what is a bit ugly with a global `ProjectConfig` is that every test will start a small spring context, making every test not requiring spring slower than they should be