Dagger 2
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
About Google's Fork
Dagger 2 is a compile-time evolution approach to dependency injection.
Taking the approach started in Dagger 1.x to its ultimate conclusion,
Dagger 2.x eliminates all reflection, and improves code clarity by
removing the traditional ObjectGraph/Injector in favor of user-specified
@Component
interfaces.
This github project represents the Dagger 2 development stream. The earlier project page (Square, Inc's repository) represents the earlier 1.0 development stream. Both versions have benefitted from strong involvement from Square, Google, and other contributors.
Dagger is currently in active development, primarily internally at Google,
with regular pushes to the open-source community. Snapshot releases are
auto-deployed to sonatype's central maven repository on every clean build with
the version HEAD-SNAPSHOT
.
Documentation
You can find the dagger documentation here which has extended usage instructions and other useful information. Substantial usage information can be found in the API documentation.
You can also learn more from the original proposal, this talk by Greg Kick, and on the dagger-discuss@googlegroups.com mailing list.
Installation
You will need to include the dagger-2.x.jar
in your application's runtime.
In order to activate code generation and generate implementations to manage
your graph you will need to include dagger-compiler-2.x.jar
in your build
at compile time.
Maven
In a Maven project, include the dagger
artifact in the dependencies section
of your pom.xml
and the dagger-compiler
artifact as an
annotationProcessorPaths
value of the maven-compiler-plugin
:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.dagger</groupId>
<artifactId>dagger</artifactId>
<version>2.x</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.6.1</version>
<configuration>
<annotationProcessorPaths>
<path>
<groupId>com.google.dagger</groupId>
<artifactId>dagger-compiler</artifactId>
<version>2.x</version>
</path>
</annotationProcessorPaths>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
If you are using a version of the maven-compiler-plugin
lower than 3.5
, add
the dagger-compiler
artifact with the provided
scope:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.dagger</groupId>
<artifactId>dagger</artifactId>
<version>2.x</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.dagger</groupId>
<artifactId>dagger-compiler</artifactId>
<version>2.x</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
If you use the beta dagger-producers
extension (which supplies
parallelizable execution graphs), then add this to your maven configuration:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.dagger</groupId>
<artifactId>dagger-producers</artifactId>
<version>2.x</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Java Gradle
// Add plugin https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/net.ltgt.apt
plugins {
id "net.ltgt.apt" version "0.10"
}
// Add Dagger dependencies
dependencies {
compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.x'
apt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.x'
}
Android Gradle
// Add Dagger dependencies
dependencies {
compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.x'
annotationProcessor 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.x'
}
If you're using classes in dagger.android
you'll also want to include:
compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android:2.x'
compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android-support:2.x' // if you use the support libraries
annotationProcessor 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android-processor:2.x'
If you're using a version of the Android gradle plugin below 2.2
, see
https://bitbucket.org/hvisser/android-apt.
If you're using the Android Databinding library, you may want to
increase the number of errors that javac
will print. When Dagger prints an
error, databinding compilation will halt and sometimes print more than 100
errors, which is the default amount for javac
. For more information, see
Issue 306.
gradle.projectsEvaluated {
tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
options.compilerArgs << "-Xmaxerrs" << "500" // or whatever number you want
}
}
Download
- 2.x (google/dagger)
- 1.x (square/dagger)
If you do not use maven, gradle, ivy, or other build systems that consume maven-style binary artifacts, they can be downloaded directly via the Maven Central Repository.
Developer snapshots are available from Sonatype's snapshot repository, and are built on a clean build of the GitHub project's master branch.
Building Dagger
Dagger is built with bazel
. The tests can be run with bazel test //...
.
util/install-local-snapshot.sh
will build all of the Dagger libraries and
install a copy in your local maven repository with the version LOCAL-SNAPSHOT
.
License
Copyright 2012 The Dagger Authors
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.