diapyr
Constructor injection for Python
Overview
- Automatic wiring between application objects
- Declare what collaborator types you want in your constructor using an @types decorator, they correspond with params
- You can decorate a (factory) function in the same way, in which case the return type must also be declared using 'this' kwarg
- Surround a type in square brackets if you want a list of all matching objects, normally diapyr provides a unique match
- Add such classes/factories to a DI instance
- You can also add objects, for example an application config object
- Request a type from the DI instance and diapyr will attempt to make it for you, along with the rest of the object graph
- Instances are cached in the DI object
- On exit from 'with' clause, dispose is called on any created instances that have it
Motivation
- Manual wiring is messy and tedious especially when an app gets big
- Constructor injection avoids spaghetti code
- It's trivial to depend on an object anywhere in the graph as long as you don't create a reference cycle e.g. most objects will depend on the same config instance
- No need to resort to globals, which come with a big risk of leaking state between unit tests
- Unit testing is easy when an object only interacts with what was passed into its constructor
Convention
- When depending on a config object the constructor should first extract what it needs and assign those values to fields
- Collaborators should also be assigned to fields, and ideally the constructor won't do anything else
Advanced
- Parameter defaults are honoured, this can be used to depend on module log object in real life and pass in a mock in unit tests
- Decorating an instance method (without 'this' kwarg) will make it behave as an additional constructor
- Take advantage of name mangling (start with double underscore e.g. __init) to avoid having to call super
- Decorating an instance method with 'this' kwarg will make it behave as a factory function
- Adding a class to DI will implicity add all such methods it has as factories
- You can play fast and loose with types, diapyr doesn't care whether a factoried object satisfies the declared type
Install
These are generic installation instructions.
To use, permanently
The quickest way to get started is to install the current release from PyPI:
pip3 install --user diapyr
To use, temporarily
If you prefer to keep .local clean, install to a virtualenv:
python3 -m venv venvname
venvname/bin/pip install diapyr
. venvname/bin/activate
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