BuiltInBindings

Built-in Bindings

More bindings that you can use

WARNING: You should avoid using these built-in bindings except Provider bindings.

Alongside explicit and just-in-time bindings additional bindings are automatically included in the injector. Only the injector can create these bindings and attempting to bind them yourself is an error.

Loggers

Guice has a built-in binding for java.util.logging.Logger, intended to save some boilerplate. The binding automatically sets the logger's name to the name of the class into which the Logger is being injected..

@Singleton
public class ConsoleTransactionLog implements TransactionLog {

  private final Logger logger;

  @Inject
  public ConsoleTransactionLog(Logger logger) {
    this.logger = logger;
  }

  public void logConnectException(UnreachableException e) {
    /* the message is logged to the "ConsoleTransacitonLog" logger */
    logger.warning("Connect exception failed, " + e.getMessage());
  }

The Injector

In framework code, sometimes you don't know the type you need until runtime. In this rare case you should inject the injector. Code that injects the injector does not self-document its dependencies, so this approach should be done sparingly.

Providers

For every type Guice knows about, it can also inject a Provider of that type. Injecting Providers describes this in detail.

TypeLiterals

Guice has complete type information for everything it injects. If you're injecting parameterized types, you can inject a TypeLiteral<T> to reflectively tell you the element type.

The Stage

Guice supports a stage enum to differentiate between development and production runs.

MembersInjectors

When binding to providers or writing extensions, you may want Guice to inject dependencies into an object that you construct yourself. To do this, add a dependency on a MembersInjector<T> (where T is your object's type), and then call membersInjector.injectMembers(myNewObject). When injectMembers is called, Guice will perform field and method injection on myNewObject.