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Inject generic type?

See original GitHub issue

Is it possible to inject a generic type? I’m getting a cyclical error when I try to inject two generic types. For example:

if I had class Generic<T> can I start koin like this?

bean { Generic<FirstClass>() }
bean { Generic<SecondClass>() }

I’m only getting cyclical errors, even when I include a dependency name. Any help would be appreciated.

org.koin.error.DependencyResolutionException: Cyclic dependency detected while resolving my.Generic - [Factory[name='first', class=my.Generic]]

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Created 6 years ago
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caleb-allencommented, Mar 10, 2018

Solved by c02e72ed723704fe78a2e98046a178b4edbe6f68

Thanks!

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erickokcommented, Mar 19, 2019

@majkrzak Koin doens’t support generics the way you are probably thinking of. The fix only pertained to named dependencies.

Some solution are using qualified (named) dependencies or non-generic definitions.

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