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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

Method injection

Method injection is everywhere. You probably use it every day and you don't even realize it. Have you ever written code like this?:

fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, "Hello World")

How about this?:

req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", "/login", body)

This is method injection—the passing in of the dependency as a parameter to the request.

Let's examine the previous examples in more detail. The function signature for Fprint() is as follows:

// Fprint formats using the default formats for its operands and writes 
// to w.
It returns the number of bytes written and any write error
// encountered.
func Fprint(w io.Writer, a ...interface{}) (n int, err error)

As you can see, the first parameter, io.Writer, is a dependency for this function. What makes this different from any other function call is the fact that the dependency provides...

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