Dependency Injection - Types

Types

Martin Fowler identifies three ways in which an object can get a reference to an external module, according to the pattern used to provide the dependency:

  • Type 1 or interface injection, in which the exported module provides an interface that its users must implement in order to get the dependencies at runtime.
  • Type 2 or setter injection, in which the dependent module exposes a setter method that the framework uses to inject the dependency.
  • Type 3 or constructor injection, in which the dependencies are provided through the class constructor.

It is possible for other frameworks to have other types of injection, beyond those presented above.

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