Autowire on 3M6

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It appears autowire on 3M6 no longer accepts the type attribute,
instead it must be inject.

Something like this no longer works.

<cfproperty type="coldbox:plugin:sessionstorage" name="oSession" />

Instead it needs to be

<cfproperty inject="coldbox:plugin:sessionstorage" name="oSession" />

Unfortunately the documentation still shows both styles. Will this be
a new required method or will both entries be supported?

I can look into this and apply the fix I am sure in the code but if it
is going to go with inject rather than type, can the reason be
explained as this causes another application wide code update.

2

  1. It’s definitely changed to “inject” moving forward

  2. I think you can set your own by having a setting “BeanFactory_dslMarker” with a value of “type”. Although that may change once wirebox is added in.

Personally, I’m holding off for probably a gold release (maybe release candidate) so I can deal with all of the changes needed at once. Still running M5 for now.

  • Gabriel
3

Yeah looking at the BeanFactory.cfc from 3M5 to 3M6 they no longer
look for "type" in the parseMetadata function. This does not seem
difficult to add back in, I would just like to know why it would be
changed rather than leaving as it was.

4

IIRC, it was changed to not hijack the “type” attribute of the cfproperty and to make it consistent between cfproperty and constructor injection. Take that with a grain of salt :slight_smile:

Also, I’d point out that it looks like wirebox is the last big framework being worked on for a final 3.0. As wirebox deals with the dependency injection, anything you personally add in may break once that’s finalized and in place.

  • Gabriel
5

Type will no longer be supported as it conflicts with the actual cf
datatype. The new convention is to use the standardized annotation
inject.