Re: [picocontainer-dev] circular refs.

On Jul 4, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Paul Hammant wrote:
> It's about circular refs.  It turns out that we always supported  
> circular refs unwittingly. If you did Implementation hiding, then  
> the circular was possible. Rather than suggest to users that adding  
> ImplemementationHiding must be part of the CAF chain for this, I've  
> added a characteristic that allows it to specified as you're adding  
> the component:
>
>    @Test
>    public void circularIsPossible() {
>        DefaultPicoContainer pico = new DefaultPicoContainer(new  
> Caching().wrap(new SetterInjection()));
>         
> pico.as(Characteristics.ENABLE_CIRCULAR).addComponent(IFish.class,  
> Fish.class);

+1 .. the IH workaround is kinda sneaky, its good to be explicit on  
why its being used

-pete

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