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How to get all implementors/subclasses of an interface with Guice?

With Spring, you can define an array property and have Spring inject one of every (@Component) class that derives from the given type.

Is there an equivalent for this in Guice? Or an extension point to add this behavior?

Solution

  • This looks like a use case for Guice MultiBinder. You could have something like that:

    interface YourInterface {
    ...
}

class A implements YourInterface {
    ...
}

class B implements YourInterface {
    ...
}

class YourModule extends AbstractModule {
    @Override protected void configure() {
        Multibinder.newSetBinder(YourInterface.class).addBinding().to(A.class):
        Multibinder.newSetBinder(YourInterface.class).addBinding().to(B.class):
    }
}

    And you can inject a Set<YourInterface> anywhere:

    class SomeClass {
    @Inject public SomeClass(Set<YourInterface> allImplementations) {
        ...
    }
}

    That should match with what you need.