injector/docs/scopes.rst

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.. _scopes:
Scopes
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Singletons
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Singletons are declared by binding them in the SingletonScope. This can be done in three ways:
1. Decorating the class with `@singleton`.
2. Decorating a `@provider` decorated Module method with `@singleton`.
3. Explicitly calling `binder.bind(X, scope=singleton)`.
A (redundant) example showing all three methods::
@singleton
class Thing(object): pass
class ThingModule(Module):
def configure(self, binder):
binder.bind(Thing, scope=singleton)
@singleton
@provider
def provide_thing(self) -> Thing:
return Thing()
Implementing new Scopes
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In the above description of scopes, we glossed over a lot of detail. In particular, how one would go about implementing our own scopes.
Basically, there are two steps. First, subclass `Scope` and implement `Scope.get`::
from injector import Scope
class CustomScope(Scope):
def get(self, key, provider):
return provider
Then create a global instance of :class:`ScopeDecorator` to allow classes to be easily annotated with your scope::
from injector import ScopeDecorator
customscope = ScopeDecorator(CustomScope)
This can be used like so::
@customscope
class MyClass(object):
pass
Scopes are bound in modules with the :meth:`Binder.bind_scope` method::
class MyModule(Module):
def configure(self, binder):
binder.bind_scope(CustomScope)
Scopes can be retrieved from the injector, as with any other instance. They are singletons across the life of the injector::
>>> injector = Injector([MyModule()])
>>> injector.get(CustomScope) is injector.get(CustomScope)
True
For scopes with a transient lifetime, such as those tied to HTTP requests, the usual solution is to use a thread or greenlet-local cache inside the scope. The scope is "entered" in some low-level code by calling a method on the scope instance that creates this cache. Once the request is complete, the scope is "left" and the cache cleared.