Type inference failed using KodeinGlobalAware or KodeinAware but not with KodeinInjected about kodein HOT 2 CLOSED

I really need to emphasis this in the doc as you are not the first one to report this issue ;)

KodeinInjected and KodeinAware work very differently.

By its nature, KodeinInjected can only access injected dependencies once it is injected, this means that it uses Kotlin's delegated properties to access said dependencies only once it has been injected, hence the use of by.

KodeinAware and KodeinGlobalAware, on the other hand, have direct access to a Kodein instance. Therefore, they do not use delegated properties.

This means that your example will work simply by using = instead of by:

val garfield : Cat = with("I hate Mondays").instance()

Really sorry that this was not clear enough in the documentation, I'll update it.

Can you be more specific about what you mean when you say "though the docs differ from the actual implementation required" ? I'm not a natural born documentation writer, I'd be greatful for any advice ;)

Salomon.

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Hello, apologies for the delay!
Phew, it was a while ago!

What I think I meant was that the docs have a snippet of code describing how to add a module to the global kodein instance: kodein.global.addModule(dbModule)

and I needed to write Kodein.global.addImport(KodeinModule()) in the class that extends Application in order to get it to work.

The documentation is great - one of the best documented libraries I've used.

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