jinject

jinject is an IoC container for node which focus on resolve object dependencies. The project is largely inspired by Ninject.

Installation

Features

• Focus on resolving object dependencies.
• Can resolve inline object and function.
• Asynchronous resolving (Unstable / Not test)
• Fluent API for define dependency binding.
• Scope capability (Transient, Singleton).
• Bind validation of object depend on other object structure (interface/contract like)
• Capability to create not found properties in an object when resolve dependencies.
• No package dependencies

Getting start

The container resolve object dependencies. You can declare dependencies to inject as inline object or function :

var Dependency = {
    myAttribute : 'Hello world'
};
 
var FunctionDependency = function(){
    var self = this;
    self.myAttribute = 'Hello world';
};

To define binding use the fluent capability of the API :

var ObjectToInspect = {
    aPropObjectToInspect : {};
};
 
var kernel = require('jinject');
kernel.bind('aPropObjectToInspect').to(Dependency).inSingletonScope();

By default jinject inject a dependency when the property to inspect is found. But you can dynamically create a not found property :

kernel.bind('aPropObjectToInspect').to(Dependency).create(true).inSingletonScope();

Binding can have contract on dependency. To do this, your need to define an inline object which contains keys / values structure. Keys are property name and values are types corresponding of the properties to inspect :

var Contract = {
    myProp : "string"
};

Kernel call binding method "isValid" to check the structure of an object. This method is public, you can invoke it like this :

var ValidDependency = {
    myProp : 'this is a valid type :)'
};
 
var InvalidDependency = {
    myProp : function(){
        return 'Will fail because of invalid type !';
    }
};
 
var kernel = require('jinject');
var isValid = kernel.bind('myProp').to(ValidDependency).validate(Contract).isValid();
console.log(isValid); //print true
 
isValid = kernel.bind('myProp').to(InvalidDependency).validate(Contract).isValid();
console.log(isValid); //print false

When bindings are define, call the kernel to resolve dependencies :

kernel.resolve(ObjectToInspect);//or use Object.create(ObjectToInspect) if you want to deal with many instances of the type of object
console.log(obj.aPropObjectToInspect.myAttribute);//print Hello World in the console

Kernel can resolve dependencies asynchronous (Unstable / Not test) :

kernel.resolveAsync(objWith, function(){
    console.log(obj.aPropObjectToInspect.myAttribute);//print Hello World in the console
};

If dependency is invalid due to a contract, kernel will throw an Error.

RoadMap

• Improve performance
• Unit test for asynchronous resolving

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Sylvain PONTOREAU ([e-mail])

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