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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 off-the-shelf injection

As I mentioned in the previous section, by adopting Wire we are hoping to see a significant reduction in the code and complexity in main(). We are also hoping to be able to essentially forget about the instantiation order of the dependencies by leaving the framework to handle it for us.

Adopting Google Wire

The first thing we need to do, however, is to get our house in order. Most, if not all, of the objects we are going to let Wire handle use our *config.Config object, and currently it exists as a global singleton, as shown in the following code:

// App is the application config
var App *Config

// Load returns the config loaded from environment
func init() {
filename, found := os.LookupEnv...
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