Re: [picocontainer-dev] Builder confusion and cycles in annotation

Any chance of a patch Erik ?

- Paul

On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Putrycz, Erik wrote:

> 2 points:
>
> - The builder and default container are confusing: if you use the  
> builder, you get the caching by default even when you don’t say  
> withCaching() because most contructors of picocontainer create the  
> caching adapter. Also having a NOCACHE characteristic + settings in  
> the builder is somehow redundant. I find the  
> componentcharacteristic system not elegant at all.
>
> - The current strategy of dealing with cycles is to throw an  
> exception when a cycle is found. However many cycles can be solved  
> when using only method and field injection. What I suggest (and  
> have done) is to track all the instances being injected and keep  
> going recursively until they are all done even when there are  
> cycles. A current limitation is that all relies on getComponent, so  
> I’m not sure there is a way to flush a cache in a CA after the root  
> getComponent is processed.
>
>
> Erik.
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