Dagger noob question. I find myself always hitting...

# squarelibraries

[Colton Idle]

Dagger noob question. I find myself always hitting a case where I see a provides method written by a teammate and I try to find where it's actually being provided.

Is there a way to easily find where that's being used? I always find myself wanting something like the Otto IntelliJ Plugin, but for Dagger.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

https://arunkumar9t2.github.io/scabbard/

[Colton Idle]

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] looks pretty close to what I want! Just for the sake of asking, is there a technique people used before scabbard? I see that it's only about 6 months old?

I was also hoping there's some trick to find usages that way.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

is there a technique people used before scabbard?

None that I know of, other than text search for “provides*”

[Colton Idle]

Thanks! Still learning so I didn't know if there were any protips around this. I find myself just searching for @Inject Type and didn't know if there was a better way.

[trevjones]

comment out the provides function and run the build. you will be greeted with an error message listing the points of use

[Colton Idle]

Now there's a pro tip!! 😬

🤦 why didn't I think of that

[trevjones]

lol because you must go through what you are going through first

[trevjones]

can't say I have not been lost for a few hours before I had the "oh duh" moment

[jw]

Btw we built literally what you asked for once: https://github.com/square/dagger-intellij-plugin

[Colton Idle]

@jw oof. Should have figured. Thanks

[trevjones]

It's for dagger 1.* and has pretty poor support for dagger2 as of years ago. Today, all bets are off. Last commit 12/2016

[jw]

Yes that's why I mentioned it in the past tense

[Colton Idle]

Damn. Okay! Missed that part.

[Colton Idle]

Apparently this came out!

https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/dagger-navigation-support-in-android-studio-49aa5d149ec9

[trevjones]

a quick poke around, and I love it