oapi-gen-dishka

Inject Dishka dependencies into the async methods called by an oapi-gen router. Generated code stays unchanged. The integration reuses Dishka's native Starlette request container, so operation handlers, security handlers, and ordinary Starlette endpoints share the same Scope.REQUEST instances.

Use the same version of oapi-gen-dishka as the oapi-gen generator that produced your application code. Both packages are published together; see the release instructions.

uv add oapi-gen-dishka

This directory is also independently buildable. To install from a local checkout:

uv add /path/to/oapi-gen/packages/oapi-gen-dishka

Usage

The example uses the repository's complete Cats specification. Generate it into your application's package:

oapi-gen generate packages/oapi-gen/tests/fixtures/cats.openapi.yaml --output app/http/generated

from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
from uuid import UUID, uuid4

from dishka import FromDishka, Provider, Scope, make_async_container, provide
from starlette.applications import Starlette
from oapi_gen_dishka import inject, setup_dishka

from app.http.generated import Handlers, contracts, create_router, models


class CatsRepository:
    def __init__(self):
        self.cats: dict[UUID, models.Cat] = {}


class CatsController:
    @inject
    async def list_cats(
        self,
        request: contracts.ListCats.Request,
        *,
        repository: FromDishka[CatsRepository],
    ) -> contracts.ListCats.Response:
        cats = list(repository.cats.values())
        return contracts.ListCats.Ok(body=cats[: request.limit])

    @inject
    async def create_cat(
        self,
        request: contracts.CreateCat.Request,
        *,
        repository: FromDishka[CatsRepository],
    ) -> contracts.CreateCat.Response:
        cat = models.Cat(id=uuid4(), name=request.body.name)
        repository.cats[cat.id] = cat
        return contracts.CreateCat.Created()

    @inject
    async def show_cat_by_id(
        self,
        request: contracts.ShowCatById.Request,
        *,
        repository: FromDishka[CatsRepository],
    ) -> contracts.ShowCatById.Response:
        cat = repository.cats.get(request.cat_id)
        if cat is None:
            raise contracts.ShowCatById.NotFound(
                body=models.HttpError(message="Cat not found"),
            )
        return contracts.ShowCatById.Ok(body=cat)


class AppProvider(Provider):
    # This in-memory example keeps cats between requests in one process.
    repository = provide(CatsRepository, scope=Scope.APP)


container = make_async_container(AppProvider())


@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: Starlette):
    try:
        yield
    finally:
        await container.close()


router = create_router(Handlers(cats=CatsController()), prefix="/api")
app = Starlette(lifespan=lifespan, routes=router.routes)
setup_dishka(container, app)

Use Scope.REQUEST for services or database sessions that must be recreated for each request. Dishka resolves dependencies from the normal provider graph and finalizes generator providers at the end of the request, including on exceptions. Add Dishka's StarletteProvider() from dishka.integrations.starlette when a provider needs starlette.requests.Request.

@inject also works on generated security handler methods. Use dishka.integrations.starlette.inject on ordinary Starlette endpoints; both decorators resolve from the same container after the single setup call above.

Boundaries

• Async HTTP handlers only. WebSockets, sync containers, and background work outside the request lifetime are not supported by this decorator.

• Call this package's setup_dishka once, before startup, instead of calling dishka.integrations.starlette.setup_dishka separately.

• The controller instance passed to Handlers is shared. Keep request-specific state in local variables and injected dependencies, not on self.

• Providers must register dependencies; FromDishka[T] selects the registered type and does not register it automatically. Dishka components are supported.

• Runtime signatures omit injected parameters and retain the remaining annotations. The decorator preserves the static response type but uses Callable[..., ...] for arguments, since Python typing cannot remove arbitrary FromDishka parameters. Annotate controller references with the generated protocol when calling them directly to check request argument types:

  controller: contracts.CatsHandler = CatsController()
  

Development

uv sync --all-packages
uv run --all-packages --directory packages/oapi-gen-dishka pytest
uv run --all-packages --directory packages/oapi-gen-dishka ruff check .
uv run --all-packages --directory packages/oapi-gen-dishka basedpyright
uv build --package oapi-gen-dishka --out-dir dist

Run these commands from the repository root; the workspace uses one root lockfile. The workspace dependency on oapi-gen is used only for integration tests; the published wheel does not depend on the generator at runtime.