Possible Limitation of SwinjectAutoregistration Involving Initializers

[vermont42]

Am I correct that, when I use SwinjectAutoregistration, no component initializer may be private?

In my app, I have a service/protocol, GameCenterable, with two components that implement that protocol, RealGameCenter and TestGameCenter. RealGameCenter has a private initializer, which takes no arguments. TestGameCenter has an internal initializer which takes a Bool argument, isAuthenticated. For context, I show in the snippets below registration and use of TestGameCenter and RealGameCenter. To make the latter work, I had to change the initializer of RealGameCenter from private to internal.

Vanilla Swinject does not have this limitation, but I would prefer to use SwinjectAutoregistration so I don't get Optionals from the container.

// registration and use of TestGameCenter component
container.autoregister(
  GameCenterable.self,
  argument: Bool.self,
  initializer: TestGameCenter.init(isAuthenticated:)
)

let gameCenter = container ~> (GameCenterable.self, argument: false)

// registration and use of RealGameCenter component
container.autoregister(
  GameCenterable.self,
  initializer: RealGameCenter.init
)

let gameCenter = container ~> (GameCenterable.self)

[jakubvano]

AFAIK there is nothing special about SwinjectAutoregistration with regard to the access modifiers. If .init is private, you cannot reference it from other source file - shouldn't matter in what context. What puzzles me though, is that vanilla register works 🤔 Is your injection code in the same sourcefile as the definition of RealGameCenter.init? Could it be that RealGameCenter has more that one init? Can you reproduce this behavior in isolated example?

[vermont42]

Thanks, @jakubvano.

Looking at the code now, I see that I had to comment out the line making RealGameCenter's initializer private, even for vanilla register. My observation was incorrect.

Makes sense that a private initializer would be problematic for Swinject.

In my conference talk and blog post, in the section on Swinject, I plan to mention, as a positive of Swinject, the help that you and other Swinject contributors provided.