@Qualifier causes: [Dagger/MissingBinding] @JvmStatic solves ONLY constructor injection

I’m having this issue:

ApplicationComponent.java:8: error: [Dagger/MissingBinding] @… java.text.SimpleDateFormat cannot be provided without an @Provides-annotated method.

Module

@Module
abstract class ApplicationModule {

    @Binds
    @AppContext
    abstract fun application(app: App): Context

    @Module
    companion object {
        ...

        @Provides
        @Singleton
        @CalendarPickerDateFormat
        fun provideCalendarPickerDateFormat(): SimpleDateFormat {
            return SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy", Locale.getDefault())
        }
    }
}

Qualifier

@Qualifier
@Retention(AnnotationRetention.RUNTIME)
annotation class CalendarPickerDateFormat

Class

@ActivityScope
class MyClass
@Inject constructor(
   ...,
    @CalendarPickerDateFormat private val calendarDateFormat: SimpleDateFormat
) {...}

Even if I add @Target(AnnotationTarget.VALUE_PARAMETER, AnnotationTarget.FUNCTION, AnnotationTarget.PROPERTY) to the Qualifier and change the class constructor to @param:CalendarPickerDateFormat, I get the same error.

What’s missing?

Possible solution

Adding @JvmStatic like:

@Provides
@Singleton
@JvmStatic
@CalendarPickerDateFormat
fun provideCalendarPickerDateFormat(): SimpleDateFormat {
      return SimpleDateFormat("dd/MMM/yyyy", Locale.getDefault())
}

Solves constructor injection but not field injection:

@Inject
@CalendarPickerDateFormat lateinit var date : SimpleDateFormat

Why?

NOTE: I’ve tried also the @Module object class approach but I have the same outcome.

[tbroyer]

How about @field:CalendarPickerDateFormat? https://github.com/google/dagger/issues/900#issuecomment-337038961

[tbroyer]

This should be fixed by https://github.com/google/dagger/commit/42a3a7b9a652b115feb4a8bbf9edbb9919707a81 IIUC