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Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go

You're reading from   Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go Develop clean Go code that is easier to read, maintain, and test

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132762
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Corey Scott Corey Scott
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Never Stop Aiming for Better 2. SOLID Design Principles for Go FREE CHAPTER 3. Coding for User Experience 4. Introduction to the ACME Registration Service 5. Dependency Injection with Monkey Patching 6. Dependency Injection with Constructor Injection 7. Dependency Injection with Method Injection 8. Dependency Injection by Config 9. Just-in-Time Dependency Injection 10. Off-the-Shelf Injection 11. Curb Your Enthusiasm 12. Reviewing Our Progress 13. Assessment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Applying config injection

Previously, I mentioned there were a couple of issues that I really wanted us to fix with our ACME registration service. In this section, we are going to use config injection to deal with two of them.

The first is the fact that many of our packages depend on the config and logging packages, and other than being a substantial single responsibility principle violation, this coupling is likely to cause circular dependency problems.

The second is our inability to test our calls to the exchange rate without actually calling the upstream service. So far, we have avoided adding any tests to this package for fear that our tests would then be affected (in terms of speed and stability) by that service.

First, let's examine where we are. Our dependency graph currently looks as shown in the following diagram:

As you can see, we have four packages (data...

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