Is it possible to bind an immutable set of certain type to an instance in Guice?

Question

I am a complete beginner with Guice, and trying to achieve the following:

public class Apple {

    private final Integer size;
    public Apple(Integer size) {
        this.size = size;
    }
}

public abstract class AppleModule {
   protected AppleModule() {

      ImmutableSet<Integer> sizes = ImmutableSet.of(1, 2, 3); 
      ImmutableSet<Apple> apples = sizes.stream().map(Apple::new).collect(ImmutableSet.toImmutableSet());
      bind(new ImmutableSet<Apple>(){}).toInstance(apples);

   }
}

so that every time I declare something like ImmutableSet<Apple> apppleBasket;, I get the same list object injected. (but ImmutableSets of other types still behave as normal)

But code above does not work with bind(...) saying Class must either be declared abstract or implement abstract method error

Note: I simplified the code I'm working on quite a bit while writing the question, so above might not compile out of box.

Answer 1

First of all, a Guice module has to extend the AbstractModule class and override its configure() method. Second of all, if you want to bind generic types, you need to use TypeLiteral.

public class AppleModule extends AbstractModule {

  @Override
  public void configure() {
    ImmutableSet<Integer> sizes = ImmutableSet.of(1, 2, 3);
    ImmutableSet<Apple> apples = sizes.stream().map(Apple::new)
      .collect(ImmutableSet.toImmutableSet());

    bind(new TypeLiteral<ImmutableSet<Apple>>(){}).toInstance(apples);
  }
}

Or, for example, you can use a @Provides method.

  @Provides
  ImmutableSet<Apple> provideAppleBasket() {
    ImmutableSet<Integer> sizes = ImmutableSet.of(1, 2, 3);
    ImmutableSet<Apple> apples = sizes.stream().map(Apple::new)
      .collect(ImmutableSet.toImmutableSet());
    return apples;
  }

Please, use Guice documentation for additional information.