Guice proxying to support circular dependency

Question

I\'m getting the following error in my code at launch:

Tried proxying com.bar.Foo to support a circular dependency, but it is not an interface.

Answer 1

Here is @jan-galinski's answer, redone in Scala:

import javax.inject.Inject
import com.google.inject.{Guice, Injector, Provider}
import net.codingwell.scalaguice.InjectorExtensions._

/** Demonstrates the problem by failing with `Tried proxying CircularDep1$A to support a circular dependency, but it is not an interface.
  while locating CircularDep1$A for parameter 0 at CircularDep1$B.(CircularDep.scala:10)
  while locating CircularDep1$B for parameter 0 at CircularDep1$A.(CircularDep.scala:6)
  while locating CircularDep1$A` */
object CircularDep1 extends App {
  class A @Inject() (val b: B) {
    val name = "A"
  }

  class B @Inject() (val a: A) {
    val name = "B"
  }

  val injector: Injector = Guice.createInjector()
  val a: A = injector.instance[A]
  val b: B = injector.instance[B]

  assert("A" == a.name)
  assert("B" == a.b.name)
  assert("B" == b.name)
  assert("A" == b.a.name)
  println("This program won't run!")
}

/** This version solves the problem by using `Provider`s */
object CircularDep2 extends App {
  class A @Inject() (val b: Provider[B]) {
    val name = "A"
  }

  class B @Inject() (val a: Provider[A]) {
    val name = "B"
  }

  val injector: Injector = Guice.createInjector()
  val a: A = injector.instance[A]
  val b: B = injector.instance[B]

  assert("A" == a.name)
  assert("B" == a.b.get.name)
  assert("B" == b.name)
  assert("A" == b.a.get.name)
  println("Yes, this program works!")
}