Dagger: What if I *WANT* a new instance every time?

Question

Interesting how difficult this answer is to find.

I've been using Dagger - Android for a while now and have my entire dependency graph set up. I'm using scopes, qualifiers, all that good stuff. I'm not a Dagger newbie anymore, but suffice to say I've been using it in a pretty standard way in my Android setup and everything has been going great.

For the first time, I'm realizing that I'd like to request new instances of a certain class in my graph myself, manually, and I want it to be a new instance every time.

What's the best way to go about doing that? I'm wondering if there's a way to leverage a non-@Singleton/non-scoped provider and call some sort of create() method myself, or if it's best to create a factory myself and make that factory a singleton/scoped instance and use my factory to get the new instance(s) when I need them? [I should mention this class will definitely not have an empty constructor so will need injected instances of other classes defined in my injection graph.]

(Also, it would probably help the most if answers were in the context of Android; i.e. I'm in, say, a ViewModel and need a new instance of some class defined in one of my Modules.)

Answer 1

Dagger will provide you a new instance as long as you don't scope the dependency.

To get a new instance of a dependency manually, you can inject Provider of it instead and use its get() method, it'll give you a new instance every time you call it.

Module part doesn't really change:

@Module
class AppModule {

    @Provides
    fun provideSomeObject(): SomeObject = SomeObject()
}

And in your class

class SomeClass {
    // We don't inject the object anymore
    // @Inject lateinit var myObject : SomeObject

    // We'll inject it's provider
    @Inject lateinit var myObject : Provider<SomeObject>

    fun someMethod(){
        // Here, instance1 and instance2 are NOT same objects
        val instance1 = myObject.get()
        val instance2 = myObject.get()
    }
}

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