Guice with parents

Question

What do I do with Guice when I need to call a parent constructor that is also injectable? e.g. I have an abstract parent class that has a constructor that is injected with a

Answer 1

Buried in the Minimize Mutability section of the Guice Best Practices, you'll find this guideline:

Subclasses must call super() with all dependencies. This makes constructor injection cumbersome, especially as the injected base class changes.

In practice, here's how to do it using constructor injection:

public class TestInheritanceBinding {
   static class Book {
      final String title;
      @Inject Book(@Named("GeneralTitle") String title) {
         this.title = title;
      }
   }
   static class ChildrensBook extends Book {
      @Inject ChildrensBook(@Named("ChildrensTitle") String title) {
         super(title);
      }
   }
   static class ScienceBook extends Book {
      @Inject ScienceBook(@Named("ScienceTitle") String title) {
         super(title);
      }
   }

   @Test
   public void bindingWorked() {
      Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new AbstractModule() {
         @Override protected void configure() {
            bind(String.class).
            annotatedWith(Names.named("GeneralTitle")).
            toInstance("To Kill a Mockingbird");
            bind(String.class).
            annotatedWith(Names.named("ChildrensTitle")).
            toInstance("Alice in Wonderland");
            bind(String.class).
            annotatedWith(Names.named("ScienceTitle")).
            toInstance("On the Origin of Species");
         }
      });
      Book generalBook = injector.getInstance(Book.class);
      assertEquals("To Kill a Mockingbird", generalBook.title);
      ChildrensBook childrensBook = injector.getInstance(ChildrensBook.class);
      assertEquals("Alice in Wonderland", childrensBook.title);
      ScienceBook scienceBook = injector.getInstance(ScienceBook.class);
      assertEquals("On the Origin of Species", scienceBook.title);
   }
}