Dependency Injection best practices and anti-patterns

language-agnostic dependency-injection anti-patterns
ripper234 picture ripper234 · Nov 5, 2009 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

I'm relatively unskilled in Dependency Injection, and I'd like to learn some best practices and anti-patterns to use and avoid respectively when using DI.

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Samuel Meacham picture Samuel Meacham · Nov 5, 2009

I really enjoyed this article regarding DI, as it's targeted towards people who don't have a ton of DI experience, or don't even know what it is.

https://mtaulty.com/2009/08/10/m_11554/

What’s Unity?

It’s a “dependency injection container”.

Now, at that point a bunch of folks reading this will say “Yes, we know and we’re already using it for reasons A, B, C or we’ve elected not to use it for reasons X,Y,Z ” and I imagine a bunch of other folks might say;

“Huh? What’s a dependency injection container?”

This post is for the latter people – it’s not meant to be exhaustive but hopefully it’s not completely unhelpful either :-)

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