Gontainer

A Dependency Injection container for GO. Gontainer is concurrent-safe, supports scopes and offers hot swapping.

If the code generation is not for you, see how to manually build a container.

Using the bootstrapping technique, Gontainer uses itself to compile its dependencies.

1. Configuration
2. Usage

Docs

1. Documentation
   1. Version
   2. Meta
   3. Parameters
   4. Services
   5. Decorators
2. Interface

Installation

homebrew

brew install gontainer/homebrew-tap/gontainer

go install

go install github.com/gontainer/gontainer@latest

Manual compilation

git clone git@github.com:gontainer/gontainer.git
cd gontainer
GONTAINER_BINARY=/usr/local/bin/gontainer make

TL;DR

Describe dependencies

Either YAML or GO

YAML

File gontainer/gontainer.yaml:

meta:
  pkg: "gontainer"
  constructor: "New"
  imports:
     mypkg: "github.com/user/repo/pkg"

parameters:
  appPort: '%envInt("APP_PORT", 9090)%' # get the port from the ENV variable if it exists, otherwise, use the default one

services:
  endpointHelloWorld:
    constructor: "mypkg.NewHelloWorld"

  serveMux:
    constructor: '"net/http".NewServeMux'                       # serveMux := http.NewServerMux()
    calls:                                                      #
      - [ "Handle", [ "/hello-world", "@endpointHelloWorld" ] ] # serveMux.Handle("/hello-world", gontainer.Get("endpointHelloWorld"))

  server:
    getter: "GetServer"           # func (*gontainer) GetServer() (*http.Server, error) { ... }
    must_getter: true             # func (*gontainer) MustGetServer() *http.Server { ... }
    type: '*"net/http".Server'    # 
    value: '&"net/http".Server{}' # server := &http.Server{}
    fields:                       #
      Addr: ":%appPort%"          # server.Addr = ":" + gontainer.GetParam("appPort")
      Handler: "@serveMux"        # server.Handler = gontainer.Get("serverMux")

Compile it

gontainer build -i gontainer/gontainer.yaml -o gontainer/container.go

# it can read multiple configuration files, e.g.
# gontainer build -i gontainer/gontainer.yaml -i gontainer/dev/\*.yaml -o gontainer/container.go

GO

File gontainer/gontainer.go:

package gontainer

import (
   "net/http"
   "os"

   "github.com/gontainer/gontainer-helpers/v3/container"
   "github.com/user/repo/pkg"
)

type gontainer struct {
   *container.SuperContainer
}

func (g *gontainer) MustGetServer() *http.Server {
   raw, err := g.Get("server")
   if err != nil {
      panic(err)
   }
   return raw.(*http.Server)
}

func New() *gontainer {
   sc := &gontainer{
      SuperContainer: container.NewSuperContainer(),
   }

   sc.OverrideParam("serverAddr", container.NewDependencyProvider(func() string {
      if v, ok := os.LookupEnv("APP_PORT"); ok {
         return ":" + v
      }
      return ":9090"
   }))

   endpointHelloWorld := container.NewService()
   endpointHelloWorld.SetConstructor(pkg.NewHelloWorld)
   sc.OverrideService("endpointHelloWorld", endpointHelloWorld)

   serveMux := container.NewService()
   serveMux.SetConstructor(http.NewServeMux)
   serveMux.AppendCall(
      "Handle",
      container.NewDependencyValue("/hello-world"),
      container.NewDependencyService("endpointHelloWorld"),
   )
   sc.OverrideService("serveMux", serveMux)

   server := container.NewService()
   server.SetConstructor(func() *http.Server {
      return &http.Server{}
   })
   server.SetField("Addr", container.NewDependencyProvider(func() (interface{}, error) {
      return sc.GetParam("serverAddr")
   }))
   server.SetField("Handler", container.NewDependencyService("serveMux"))
   sc.OverrideService("server", server)

   return sc
}

Voilà!

File main.go:

package main

import (
	"github.com/user/repo/gontainer"
)

func main() {
	c := gontainer.New()
	s := c.MustGetServer()

	err := s.ListenAndServe()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}