Dependency Injection is not a bad word

by MikeHogg12. December 2012 10:10

"Dependency Injection" is not a bad word.  Besides the fact that it's two words, if anything is bad abou it, it is only that "Dependency" is a bad word,  not Injection.  If you can't encapsulate everything necessary for your class or system to work, then what you want to do is expose your dependencies, in a contract, so other developers can easily figure out what is needed to get what they want from your library.

 

You can do this by limiting constructor signatures, or method signatures, to individual properties that you rely on, or by providing a signature that takes an entire class, and that is what they usually call dependency injection.

 

Let's say you have a custom MembershipProvider, and it provides several public methods, which other developers might find browsing your namespace.  Let's say another developer finds what she is looking for in your dll, and so tries to use it in his case. Let's say you aren't exposing any static methods, so they must now instantiate this object, and any dependencies your classes have become an issue.

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