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Kodein v5.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-04-10 // about 6 years ago

    • DOCUMENTATION

    • CORE

      • Package change: org.kodein.di, org.kodein.di.generic, org.kodein.di.erased.
      • Everything is lazy by default.
      • Distribution via Bintray's JCenter.
      • Compatible with Kotlin/Native (Huge thanks to Nikolay Igotti and his amazing Kotlin/Native team!).
      • Support for subtype bindings: see documentation.
      • Ability to retrieve allInstances, allProviders or allFactories that match subtypes of a given type.
      • Support for multi-argument factories & multiton.
      • Changed the extend semantic to manage copy of state-holding bindings. see documentation.
      • Complete rewrite of custom scopes.
      • Better recursion error messages.
      • Better currying syntax: kodein.instance(arg = whatever).
      • Injector has been replaced with KodeinTrigger and LateInitKodein, each taking a part of the responsibility.
      • Introducing LateInitKodein.
      • scopeSingleton and refSingleton are now options of singleton. Same goes for multiton.
      • Support for non state-holding bindings to access the receiver.
      • Support for an external source that will be queried when Kodein has no answer.

    • ANDROID

      • Full rewrite of the android components, effectively removing them, replacing them with a much lighter system. See documentation

    • INTERNALS

      • Full rewrite of the retrieval engine, introducing KodeinTree to select the matching binding according to a query.