Guice configuration error: No implementation was bound

Question

I'm trying to make DI with Guice work, doing (as it seems to me) exactly what's in the manual.

I can't explain the problem because I don't really understand it - everything seems very logical and should work.. but it doesn't. So, I can only attach the code and the stacktrace:

public class Runner {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Injector injector = Guice.createInjector(new TestModule());
        //next line throws the exception
        JMeterComponent jMeterComponent = 
             injector.getInstance(JMeterComponent.class);
        ....
    }
}

As you can see, I'm trying to instantiate object of JMeterComponent class. It's constructor (as you'll see later) accepts 3 arguments: all of them should be also instantiated by IoC and injected.

And here's the TestModule with configuration of these 3 arguments:

public class TestModule extends AbstractModule {

    @Override
    protected void configure() {
        bind(Callable.class).annotatedWith(Names.named("JMeter"))
                  .to(JMeterTask.class);      
        bind(Processor.class).annotatedWith(Names.named("JMeter"))
                  .to(JMeterResultsProcessor.class);
        bind(Renderer.class).annotatedWith(Names.named("JMeter"))
                  .to(JMeterResultsWikiRenderer.class);
    }
}

Now, let's look at those concrete implementations - JMeterTask, JMeterResultsProcessor and JMeterResultsWikiRenderer (all of them have fake bodies for the simplicity):

public class JMeterTask implements Callable<JMeterRawResults> {

    public JMeterRawResults call() throws Exception {
        return new JMeterRawResults();
    }
}

public class JMeterResultsProcessor implements 
                   Processor<JMeterRawResults, JMeterResults> {

    public JMeterResults process(JMeterRawResults raw) {
        return new JMeterResults();
    }
}

public class JMeterResultsWikiRenderer implements Renderer<JMeterResults> {

    public Map<String, String> render(JMeterResults jMeterResults) {
        Map<String, String> results = Maps.newHashMap();
        ...
        return results;
    }
}

And now let's look at the JMeterComponent class, which instance's construction is the aim of the whole DI-related stuff here:

public class JMeterComponent extends AbstractComponent<String, String> {

    @Inject
    public JMeterComponent(@Named("JMeter") Callable<String> task, 
                           @Named("JMeter")Processor<String, String> processor, 
                           @Named("JMeter")Renderer<String> renderer) {
        super(task, processor, renderer);
    }
}

And here's the stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" com.google.inject.ConfigurationException: Guice configuration errors:

1) No implementation for stat.domain.Processor<java.lang.String, java.lang.String> annotated with @com.google.inject.name.Named(value=JMeter) was bound.
  while locating stat.domain.Processor<java.lang.String, java.lang.String> annotated with @com.google.inject.name.Named(value=JMeter)
    for parameter 1 at stat.components.jmeter.JMeterComponent.<init>(JMeterComponent.java:18)
  while locating cstat.components.jmeter.JMeterComponent

2) No implementation for stat.domain.Renderer<java.lang.String> annotated with @com.google.inject.name.Named(value=JMeter) was bound.
  while locating stat.domain.Renderer<java.lang.String> annotated with @com.google.inject.name.Named(value=JMeter)
    for parameter 2 at stat.components.jmeter.JMeterComponent.<init>(JMeterComponent.java:18)
  while locating stat.components.jmeter.JMeterComponent

3) No implementation for java.util.concurrent.Callable<java.lang.String> annotated with @com.google.inject.name.Named(value=JMeter) was bound.
  while locating java.util.concurrent.Callable<java.lang.String> annotated with @com.google.inject.name.Named(value=JMeter)
    for parameter 0 at stat.components.jmeter.JMeterComponent.<init>(JMeterComponent.java:18)
  while locating stat.components.jmeter.JMeterComponent

Some additional facts:

1. I use guice-2.0 (with featured label)
2. There's no more any annotation from com.google.inject package in any other class in the code
3. Interfaces Processor and Renderer are placed in one module, and their jmeter-implementations (JMeterResultsProcessor and other) and JMeterComponent class are placed in another module.

That's pretty much everything there's to say about it.

Sorry for such a long post and thanks for your patience to read it to the end.

Any ideas on why did the errors occur and how to fix it?

Answer 1

There are several problems I'm seeing here.

First, Callable and Callable<String> are different. If you want to inject a Callable<String> (or Processor<String, String>, etc.) in Guice, you have to bind something to Callable<String>, not Callable.

Second, you're binding Callable to JMeterTask which implements Callable<JMeterRawResults> but you're injecting Callable<String> in JMeterComponent's constructor (same deal for Processor and Renderer). I'm going to assume that JMeterComponent should have Callable<JMeterRawResults> etc. injected.

Anyway, what you need to do is generic bindings using TypeLiteral:

bind(new TypeLiteral<Callable<JMeterRawResults>>(){})
    .annotatedWith(Names.named("JMeter"))
    .to(JMeterTask.class);