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Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go

By : Corey Scott
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Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go

By: Corey Scott

Overview of this book

Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go takes you on a journey, teaching you about refactoring existing code to adopt dependency injection (DI) using various methods available in Go. Of the six methods introduced in this book, some are conventional, such as constructor or method injection, and some unconventional, such as just-in-time or config injection. Each method is explained in detail, focusing on their strengths and weaknesses, and is followed with a step-by-step example of how to apply it. With plenty of examples, you will learn how to leverage DI to transform code into something simple and flexible. You will also discover how to generate and leverage the dependency graph to spot and eliminate issues. Throughout the book, you will learn to leverage DI in combination with test stubs and mocks to test otherwise tricky or impossible scenarios. Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go takes a pragmatic approach and focuses heavily on the code, user experience, and how to achieve long-term benefits through incremental changes. By the end of this book, you will have produced clean code that’s easy to test.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we examined the effects of applying DI unnecessarily or incorrectly. We also discussed some situations where employing DI is not the best tool for the job.

We then wrapped up the chapter with a list of 10 questions that you can ask yourself to determine whether DI is appropriate for your current use case.

In the next chapter, we'll wrap up our examination of DI with a review of everything we've discussed throughout this book. In particular, we'll contrast the state of our sample service now with its original state. We'll also take a quick look at how to start a new service with DI.