Small DI

The smallest dependency injection mechanism possible in python. SmallDI provides you with an intuitive and simple interface for doing dependency injections in your project.

Example usage

Injection

import random

from smalldi import Injector
from smalldi.annotation import Provide

# Lets create some service
@Injector.singleton
class MeowService:
    _MEOWS = ["Meow", "Meow-meow", "Meowwwwww", "Mrromeowww", "Meeeeoooow"]
    def __init__(self):
        print("Meow-meow! Meowing service is initialized")
    
    def meow(self):
        print(random.choice(self._MEOWS))

# Now lets make purring service.
# But cats do not purr without telling meow!(at least in this test)
# So its time to inject dependency
@Injector.singleton
class PurrService:
    _PURRS = ["Purrrrr", "Purr-purr"]
    
    @Injector.inject
    def __init__(self, meow_service: Provide[MeowService]):
        self.meow_service = meow_service
        print("Purr-purr! Purring service is initialized")

    def purr(self):
        self.meow_service.meow()
        print(random.choice(self._PURRS))

# Now lets put it all together. 
# Ask our services to meow and then purr
@Injector.inject
def main(meow_service: Provide[MeowService], purr_service: Provide[PurrService]):
    meow_service.meow()
    purr_service.purr()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Container

import sys
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod

from smalldi.container import Container
from smalldi import Injector, Provide

# Define interface for catnip
class Catnip(ABC):
    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def flavour(self):
        pass 

# Create a container to store different flavours of catnip
@Injector.singleton
class CatnipContainer(Container):
    def get_all_flavours(self) -> list[str]:
        flavours = list()
        for catnip in self._get_components():
            flavours.append(catnip().flavour)
        return flavours

@CatnipContainer.component
class PlainCatnip(Catnip):
    @property
    def flavour(self):
        return "plain"

@CatnipContainer.component
class ChocolateCatnip(Catnip):
    @property
    def flavour(self):
        return "chocolate"

@CatnipContainer.component
class StrawberryCatnip(Catnip):
    @property
    def flavour(self):
        return "strawberry"

@Injector.inject
def main(catnip_container: Provide[CatnipContainer]) -> int:
    print(catnip_container.get_all_flavours())
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())

Library structure

Injector

Injector is a static class(i.e., one that should never be instantiated) which is the main (and currently the only) DI container inside the library. Injector provides two decorators:

• @Injector.singleton creates an instance of a class which may further be injected in functions
• @Injector.inject replaces parameters annotated with type Provide[Singleton] with actual instances of Singleton

Singletons

Singletons are classes having a single instance. In smalldi singletons may not take constructor(__init__) other than annotated with Provide[] type. Only singletons may be decorated with @Injector.singleton. As a consequence, only singleton classes may be injected at the current state of library development.

Provide

Provide[T] is an annotation for injector telling it that instead of this argument instance of T should be passed. Caller of function with Provide[T] may explicitly override argument annotated with Provide[T] by directly passing annotated_di_arg=my_value.

Container

Container helps to collect classes and potential functions into a single unit. All containers must be singletons inherited from Container class. To create a container, write and inheritor of Container class and annotate it with @Injector.singleton. Then you may register components in the container by annotating them with @MyContainer.component. Additionally, @MyContainer.component may be called with () in order to provide metadata about the component.

Container._get_components

The container expose protected method _get_components which returns all components registered in the container in form of iterable of registrations.

Container._on_component_registered

The container have protected method _on_component_registered which is called every time a new component is registered in the container.

ComponentRegistration

ComponentRegistration is a dataclass which holds information about registered component which consists of:

• component: an actual component type
• args: arguments passed to @MyContainer.component during registration
• kwargs: keyword arguments passed to @MyContainer.component during registration

Collector

Collector is a class which imports all modules in order execute decorators.

Warning

Collector should be used in top-level modules of the project as calling it from a submodule which is imported by other submodules may lead to circular imports.

Collector.collect_from_package

This method imports all modules in a given package.