Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go

You're reading from   Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go Develop clean Go code that is easier to read, maintain, and test

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132762
Length 346 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Corey Scott Corey Scott
Author Profile Icon Corey Scott
Corey Scott
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Never Stop Aiming for Better FREE CHAPTER 2. SOLID Design Principles for Go 3. Coding for User Experience 4. Introduction to the ACME Registration Service 5. Dependency Injection with Monkey Patching 6. Dependency Injection with Constructor Injection 7. Dependency Injection with Method Injection 8. Dependency Injection by Config 9. Just-in-Time Dependency Injection 10. Off-the-Shelf Injection 11. Curb Your Enthusiasm 12. Reviewing Our Progress 13. Assessment 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Applying method injection

In this section, we are going to improve our ACME registration service by applying method injection with perhaps my favorite package in the entire Go standard library, the context package. Central to this package is the Context interface, which describes itself as follows:

A context carries a deadline, cancellation signal, and request-scoped values across API boundaries. Its methods are safe for simultaneous use by multiple goroutines

So, why do I love it so much? By applying method injection, with context as the dependency, I am able to build my processing logic in such a way that it can all be automatically canceled and cleaned up.

A quick recap

Before we dive into the changes, let's take...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime