Hi all. Is there a way for me to pass a variable to a module when initializing it in startKoin? Use ...

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[maddy]

Hi all. Is there a way for me to pass a variable to a module when initializing it in startKoin? Use case -> I have a library that provides login screen for multiple applications. It needs a different API url for each application, which is used in providing the Retrofit service singleton by Koin. Is there a way for me to achieve this?

[Casey Brooks]

You could use getProperty() to get the URL: https://insert-koin.io/docs/2.0/documentation/koin-core/properties.html

[Casey Brooks]

Alternatively, you could create your submodules as functions with parameters instead of properties. instead of

val myModule = module { 
  ...
}

do

fun myModule(baseUrl: String) = module { 
  ...
}

[maddy]

Thanks Casey. I did not know that you could define the module as a function! 😍

Properties will work for the server url. I also wanted to pass an activity class as a parameter (basically the next activity to open once login succeeds). Function definition should work for that.

Thanks again 🙂