Hi! Why can't Koin search for classes registered f...

# koin

[Marius Kotsbak]

Hi! Why can't Koin search for classes registered for DI that implement an interface that is required by some other component?

[Florian Eula]

A wild guess would be that class inheritance is already a large thing on the JVM. That would require traversing the entire dependency tree (up to which point? Do you allow injecting Object or Any , which would be all your dependencies ?). That's a massive performance an dmemory cost, for very little usage.

Just declare your modules with factory<InterfaceYouNeed> { ImplementingClass() }

[Marius Kotsbak]

Yeah, search upwards, but exclude generic classes in JDK (e.g. package filter, java.* etc) and up. And only in case an exact match is not found. And must only result in one match. Should possibly be an option in the module.

[arnaud.giuliani]

for a definition you can bind extra definition with bind or binds DSL keyword

[arnaud.giuliani]

and then you can request all instance of a given type with getAll

[arnaud.giuliani]

here it’s mainly declarative to avoid reflection analysis

[Marius Kotsbak]

Oki, that is another use case.

[Marius Kotsbak]

Not my wish to avoid boilerplate. No problem for cake based DI I think.