Yep, constructor injection simply passes it into the constructor and it’s up to you to persist the values somewhere. That’s why I made a comment several E-mails back to make sure you were setting the value since you hadn’t shared your constructor code yet. There’s also setter injection which does what you were thinking-- it calls a setter on your object to set in the dependencies.
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~Brad
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